Sentence:  Petitions <WSD>asking</WSD> for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday , it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport , counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard 's hit-run car . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make a request or demand for something to somebody