In his request to Congress for more funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama had also asked Congress for $80 million to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

In his request to be relieved of duty, General Fonseka asked the president to allow him to keep a security detail, including trained combat soldiers, and a bullet proof vehicle, saying the defeated rebels are yet capable of trying to kill him.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

it was his request that "you will not be hasty in deciding."

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Ashbee, who has been at Hull for nine years, handed in his transfer request on Friday after informing Pearson that a club had offered him a contract.

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The Office of Management and Budget sliced his request in half.

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In the speech, the president did not change the broad outline of the vision for the US space agency he first expounded in his 2011 federal budget request.

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