Five days after Lee's surrender, Johnston asked for a meeting with General William Sherman, the commander of Union forces in North Carolina.

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When King asked Judge William Blair Sylvester for a delay of the arraignment, there were audible sighs from the side of the courtroom where shooting survivors and victim families sit.

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In 1997, after the Labour government came to power, Straw asked Sir William Macpherson to enquire into how public institutions could judge how well they were addressing the needs of an ethnically diverse society - focussing on the Met.

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Mr. Taylor asked Bridey and William to be the proxies.

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