She further ordered the local governments not to accept improper requests from the Ma family.

The women stared at her as if she'd made an improper request.

The Director of the F.B.I. said the bureau had been "victimized" by improper requests by White House aides for files on workers from prior Republican Administrations.

One lawyer sent a protest petition to the State Education Commissioner, calling the request improper and illegal.

Will a private company, dependent on Government officials for renewal of a lucrative contract, be able to challenge an improper request?

"There is nothing in the record that shows that anybody in the campaign made an improper request," Mr. Sher said.

"That was an improper request."

However, when he got to the capital, he saw that the imperial government lacked direction, and many imperial officials made improper requests to him.

This practice has produced what state officials call a few hundred improper requests for absentee ballots, but no one except the Republican state chairman, Joel Rosenthal, treats it as a full-blown scandal.

For improper requests (i.e., requests that do not include all applicable elements of (Section XI.A.5.