1.   A toddler quickly learns that a tantrum is a surefire recourse when a polite request for something is met with parental indifference.

2.   My polite request was met with an unceremonious refusal.

3.   They breakfasted on hot black coffee, biscuits and chocolate, eating in a silence cut by polite requests and answers.

4.   And years of polite requests by parents failed to get any results.

5.   But, according to Eritrea, militiamen from the border province of Tigray persistently encroached on Eritrean territory, ignoring polite requests to withdraw.

6.   It was a polite request for the names of basketball prospects in the state who might have the stuff to make it at the Military Academy.

7.   Like the polite request from Betty Shrewsbury, who meets him at the door of her shuttered home.

8.   Previously, before the other deadlines, ABC had faxed polite requests for signatures on proposed extension agreements.

9.   Similarly, when she uncovers a violation of her copyright, a polite request to take down the graphics generally does the trick.

10.   The time for polite requests was over, he declared.