Solicits

My mother again solicits me to resume this estate; and has proposed my making over to her my half-pay instead of it, though of much less value, which, with her own two hundred pounds a year, will, she says, enable her to continue her house in town, a point I am determined never to suffer her to give up; because she loves London; and because I insist on her having her own house to go to, if she should ever chance to be displeased with ours. ❋ Unknown (1769)

Well, the solicits are a little off to the first issue's final content. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If your neighbours slaughtering each other in an official genocide campaign for years solicits zero action from you, of what importance are you? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Shapiro is on the Freakonomics blog on NYT and solicits quotes for him to trace. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Idaho's REPUBLICAN senator solicits gay sex in an airport bathroom. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Early Intervention Program, Washington College (Md.): [T] o identify students who appear to be at risk for academic failure or withdrawal, the Early Intervention Program staff solicits input about students in need from faculty, coaches, residence life personnel, and other staff. ❋ Daniel De Vise (2010)

Artadia solicits artists through an open call and then uses national judges to make their selections. ❋ Paul Klein (2011)

* How they marketed Watchmen: a look back at the original solicits from 1986. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The "autonomy" game does not presuppose itself outside the rules of relativism; it simply solicits recognition as one game among the others. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I don't think many readers will be willing to suspend these expectations, especially not as radically as a work like West Virginia solicits us to do. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is just those, the good fellows, the worth while, the fellows with the weakness of too much strength, too much spirit, too much fire and flame of fine devilishness, that he solicits and ruins. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Finally he solicits and receives additional names of those who might help him ‘think about literature afresh.’ ❋ Unknown (2009)

TP: When Scott Brown goes on Fox News and he solicits volunteers and – ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is a Fine Arts Trust Fund, which solicits gifts of money and artworks to the Federal Reserve, and the United States Capitol Historical Society, which raises money for the research and collections work of the curator and architect of the capitol. ❋ Daniel Grant (2011)

It is true that in many cities, there is a group of donors who have been so loyal and generous to the arts that every arts group solicits these donors first. ❋ Michael Kaiser (2010)