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On Monday, police activated an Ebony Alert for Lewis, which is an alert system designed to help find missing Black women and children, and asked for help from the FBI.

The men moved to have their charges dismissed, arguing that Chattah was not “validly” serving in her position, and asked for her disqualification from prosecuting criminal cases in Nevada.

From Salon

However, just before Christmas that year, the Department of Health served the company with a notice rejecting the gowns and asking for a refund.

From BBC

He said that while in Ghana they had been asking for better living conditions since the environment at the military camp where they were placed was "deplorable".

From BBC

We went through the rigorous BBC internal processes of asking for permission to secretly film.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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