How to Use solicitation in a Sentence

solicitation

noun
  • Begin with the links in the solicitation text and follow that journey through the receipt of the gift.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The solicitation noted that the sports arena parcels are zoned for a total of 2,112 units.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Formal charges have yet to be filed in connection to the solicitation sting.
    Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 17 May 2022
  • She was charged with one count of solicitation to commit murder, a class C felony.
    David K. Li, NBC News, 7 June 2023
  • Electronic solicitation of a child is a Class B felony, and Powell could receive a sentence between two and 15 years in state prison if convicted of the charge.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Rather than ignore the questioner, whose solicitation elicited boos and hisses from the audience, Biden didn’t just fail to reject the premise.
    The Editors, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023
  • No solicitation or sales by any vendors are allowed from any public roadway or right-of-way.
    Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • But Senate aides and a contract solicitation published by the Sergeant at Arms’ office confirmed the chamber uses the same system.
    Leah Nylen, Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2022
  • As of last week, Bowers was still raising money for her Texas House campaign through email solicitations.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • There are no details in the report about where the prostitution solicitation occurred or the names of the officials involved.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • After declining the team's request for more time, the city was set to issue a third solicitation when Wilson offered to buy the property last spring.
    Arkansas Online, 8 Apr. 2022
  • McFadden was set to stand trial on charges of solicitation of a minor at 9 a.m. Monday but failed to show up, according to court records.
    Tina Burnside, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • At the end of last week the Canadian court approved a sales and investment solicitation process which formally put the Dynamic group on the market.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This Burke study will be the second lakefront-specific solicitation by City Hall in recent weeks.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 3 Nov. 2022
  • An officer found it at 3:38 p.m. in front of a home on Wintergreen Drive, where a man was advised about the village solicitation ordinance.
    Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 31 July 2022
  • O'Donnell pleaded guilty to solicitation of capital murder, for plotting murder-for-hire hits from her cell, first degree murder and abuse of a corpse.
    ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In 2019, Kraft was charged with two counts of solicitation of a prostitute, but those charges were later dropped because of a technicality.
    Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
  • Chandravongsri was not satisfied with the response, saying Kurian’s claims clashed with the military language of the US government’s bid solicitation, which talked of the need to take on China.
    WIRED, 11 Sep. 2022
  • A week later, Hansen, the girls coach, resigned due to personal reasons in the wake of an arrest and citation for solicitation of prostitution.
    Zac Bellman, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
  • Four of those were charged as procuring prostitution and one was charged as solicitation of prostitution, the report found.
    NBC News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The joint proposal from Ørsted and Eversource was the only one to respond to a solicitation for wind power projects, and the fact that even that one won’t get picked is a sign of ongoing challenges in the wind power industry.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
  • Some legal experts contend that this call alone may have violated a state law against the solicitation to commit election fraud.
    Richard Fausset, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Kelly also faces a solicitation case in state court in Minnesota.
    Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2022
  • Afterward, the city changed course, launching a solicitation process for the contract, putting out a request for qualifications.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
  • In a 2017 trial order, the bank was charged with unlawful solicitation of clients, laundering the proceeds of tax fraud, and aiding and abetting both those activities.
    Nick Kostov, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Some, such as spam laws and a law about unsolicited cell phone/pager text ads, specifically prohibit this kind of frequent text solicitations.
    Talis Shelbourne, Journal Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Police say their efforts to inform a school system about the arrest of a counselor on solicitation charges were thwarted by undeliverable emails.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The solicitation for the book, which will be published in September, was slated to go live automatically this morning.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • How to detect scammers There are telltale signs that solicitations for donations are coming from bad actors.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • As long as no solicitation for presents — including gift cards — accompanies either one of them.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 9 June 2023

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