How To Use Demanding In A Sentence

The security police quickly squelched an extremely rare public demonstration demanding political reform on Monday, the 41st anniversary of the Baath Party's seizure of power here.
Deep navy, in contrast, is less demanding, and leaves a bit more colour in a blonde's cheeks.
It gets progressively more demanding, too, taking a good 12 hours of study to absorb.
Women engage in food preparation, child rearing, carpet weaving, and other tasks within the compound, while men take care of the animals and do the physically demanding tasks.
To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.

She was literally demanding your complete, undivided attention.
Not so much a summer scorcher, then, but a hot ticket that remains boisterously good fun for the undemanding multiplex-goers.
Greek and foreign suppliers are demanding to be prepaid for providing my company with goods and services. Times, Sunday Times
A townswoman actually comes to the castle in despair, demanding her child; Dracula sets a pack of wolves on her.
My husband is a banker with a very demanding schedule.
* In primitive conditions, given the unsually demanding task (compared to other mammals) of raising human babies, paternal investment in offspring is required. The Volokh Conspiracy » Interracial Marriage Rates Going Up
But how do you make sure you don't tip into demanding too much or go too far the other way and get lazy about asserting your needs? The Sun
When like me you have chosen the tough and rugged regime of living in a lighthouse for two nights, you will know that getting your daily victuals can be a demanding task.
Demanding that trials maximise their gathering of information on toxicology improves a protocol's balance of risk and social value.
You have another demanding person to consider and can feel stressed and exhausted. The Sun
Feats that are usually demanding and taxing are accomplished with ease.
We don't have a charter and we don't have pressure from shareholders demanding profits and wanting to see readership figures.
The impetus is not the fact that the pastor wants it but rather that growth is demanding it. Christianity Today
Such profits are endangered by the strike by about 500 United Auto Worker members who are demanding a contract with higher wages.
I fear that bypassing the United Nations and demanding regime change by force instead of working toward peaceful disarmament is a dangerous step for our nation.
Small businesses are demanding that they receive uniform treatment from the banks.
Because the work is demanding and intimate, they see themselves as closer to therapists than to hookers - and have deep, long-lasting ties to their regulars.
Militants wielding clubs and sticks chased the farmer into his house, demanding he leave the property.
Give 'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Give \'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Give-\'Em-Hell Harry Reid today did a great service to America today by standing up, shutting down the Senate and demanding answers about how and why the Bush administration lied to America about the Iraq "threat" in the lead up to the war. Give 'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions
Women workers are demanding parity with their male colleagues.
The big fella no longer is demanding a trade, which wasn't feasible anyway, or to be waived, which was unlikely.
But Cambodians voted with their wallets, shunning the Cambodian riel and demanding dollars. The Cambodian Case for Dollarization
There is very little evidence that jobs have become more demanding. MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES
Other forms of attack include shutting companies' systems down and demanding a ransom to get them working again. Times, Sunday Times
Success never seems to come but through hard work, often physically demanding work at that.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - A Warsaw court on Tuesday began hearing a lawsuit filed by Lech Walesa in which the Solidarity founder is demanding damages from Polish President Lech Kaczynski for having called Walesa a communist-era agent. Undefined
The Soviets are demanding certain guarantees about verification before signing the treaty.
‘I wish more of my patients were as undemanding as you,’ said the dentist admiringly.
My present job doesn't stretch me, so I'm looking for something more demanding.
Instead of being short and demanding, the exam season is long and tedious. Times, Sunday Times
The community is demanding a less aggressive style of policing.
She was domineering, cold, bitter and demanding, and was often called a ‘tyrant.’
She came home demanding to know why we hadn't got an inch closer to catching this madman. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
It was Chief Buthelezi, who despite the IFP/ANC agreement, continued to politicise and emotionalise this question by demanding that Ulundi be the capital. Contents
Politicians and union bosses are demanding an independent inquiry. Times, Sunday Times
We collapsed in fits, the tutor had overheard and was almost wetting herself, and the 5 others were demanding to know what we'd said.
But there was certainly widespread discontent behind the petitions demanding that he stand aside. Times, Sunday Times
It seems everybody is demanding increased bandwidth to surf the Internet and transmit data faster.
a baby can be so demanding
She was an undemanding friend, ready to listen with attention, whereas I was incurious about her, perhaps assuming that since she was so young, she had nothing to teach me about books or life, an idea which seemed terribly sad years later.
Physical rehabilitation is very demanding," said Mark Sherer, the center's director of neuropsychology, "especially for a patient that has suffered traumatic brain injury. Giffords Moves to Texas for Rehab
She was still slender and wiry despite her demanding job teaching at Harvard University.
Had he been open for business, I would have rushed in, demanding that the mouth-mangier relieve my pain. A Body In The Bath House
The six fractious republics are demanding autonomy.
Then one night a stray cat meowed demandingly at her screen door. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats
The commitment to boycott Westminster would hardly cause a 'Sinn Feinner' like H.R. Jones to frown too much, and it's possible that demanding a monoglot Welsh speaking Wales would have been to his taste. Archive 2008-05-01
A large majority of the population is demanding the restoration of the former government.
But before she spoke Ms Morris was accosted by a placard-waving group of about 20 protesters demanding that they should be paid all year round, not just in term time.
I Got Rhythm is a lively and entertaining production with an array of costume changes, live vocal performances and technically demanding dance.
He has overcome the problem he says many people encounter that of ending up in undemanding, badly-paid jobs.
Due to an increasing emphasis on "academics" and accountability, policymakers are demanding more and more testing, which requires more and more seatwork. Rae Pica: In Defense of Active Learning
They are demanding equal rights and justice.
There may well be a case for introducing more demanding questions for the really high flyers.
Where Mabone had insisted that ‘half a loaf is better than none,’ Stanton, Winstone and their fellows insisted that ‘we are demanding the whole bakehouse.’
Small businesses are demanding that they receive uniform treatment from the banks.
Porgy must be one of the longest and most physically demanding roles in the repertory, and Alvy Powell meets the challenge eloquently despite occasional traces of vocal strain.
He took it a couple of steps further though, faxing all the local Cleveland media outlets on plain white paper with his signature demanding a trade.
China and India's appetites for oil are burgeoning, demanding more and more from the world's oil wells.
They are demanding the release of all political prisoners.
They ought to be demanding that the presidential candidates speak out forthrightly on these issues.
He took out a court injunction against the newspaper demanding the return of the document.
The subtext could mean she has turned into a demanding spoilt little brat who likes to show off. The Sun
More than a quarter of a million people signed a petition that was delivered to Downing Street last month demanding that the fees be banned. Times, Sunday Times
To do that, while simultaneously demanding a right to remain anonymous, defats the purpose of a “petition.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Federal Judge Temporarily Restrains Release of Names of Anti-Domestic-Partnership Petition Signers in Washington States:
This can be tricky when juggling home life with a demanding career - unless an employer is able to be flexible. Times, Sunday Times
As I start to wonder about the legitimacy of the test, Alain becomes altogether more aggressive, demanding what I plan to do about the advanced state of misery and moral turpitude in which I have found myself.
He ran up to the front of the church demanding to be signed with the cross.
If that's not enough for the more demanding customer, the stunning and perhaps unbeatable view of Sofia makes it well worth a visit.
The typical procedure for reporting sexual harassment doesn't entail a woman's husband calling the harasser and demanding an apology, like the guy who slugged George Bailey hey Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
While many turn their paychecks over to their husbands, others rebel, demanding the family's few spare cents go to pencils for the kids rather than cigarettes.
As undemanding entertainment this is enjoyable enough; just don't expect it to change your life. Times, Sunday Times
His writing is dense, exact, demanding, and he ranges freely among fields of knowledge and aspects of sociocultural experience. The Times Literary Supplement
(That slowness to wake up and smell -- mixing metaphors here -- which way the wind is blowing has, of course, redounded to the good of actors demanding $20 million salaries.) Seeing Stars in Hollywood and New York
Now he is demanding the older heads in their squad step up and help stop the rot. The Sun
Canoe slalom is one of the most spectacular Olympic watersports, demanding skill, stamina and courage.
While Williams made her way brilliantly through its forest of steps, the dance was more demanding than affecting.
The greatest conceit - that pregnancy is not a health issue and women's lives are expendable - underlies the dual standards of Republican Party pronatalist policy demanding female submission to males who assume the right to hold women hostage to biology. Michele Swenson: "Non-Personhood" for Women: Defining Women Down
There can be few more technically demanding challenges in pianism than this, but she didn't falter. Times, Sunday Times
For ten long minutes they stood talking, driving poor Gimblet to the desperate expedient of entering the shop and demanding a closer acquaintance with the cairngorm. The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story
Anyone who has ever flown aerobatics knows that it's a physically demanding activity.
Amid the problems, Paul Smith re-emerged as a seam bowler demanding respect.
Bill was in the doctor's surgery demanding to know what was wrong with him.
The film is narrated against the backdrop of the tribal movement in the Jharkhand region in the 1980s demanding an identity for the community and claiming statehood of their own.
Here is an impoverished country with a restive population demanding improvements to their lives.
There was nobody telling us what to do; nobody sitting around drinking palm wine and demanding dinner.
He is also demanding that children address him as 'aga' instead of 'gospodin' (Mister), had prohibited girls from attending the last prom in civil attire and issued a ban on celebrations. Spectator Live
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is part of a group of investors that sent a letter demanding Bank of America buy back some $47 billion in dodgy mortgages. Bailout Oversight Panel Slams Obama Administration Over Foreclosure Crisis
The taxman is demanding that some pay back all the disputed tax upfront before the tribunal issues its verdict. Times, Sunday Times
He has spent over fifty years at the top in a very demanding profession and deserves to be congratulated for it.
She was not a demanding person by nature, but if she were left with her questions for much longer she'd very well seek answers on her own!
he became demandingly dominant over the years
It is also quite demanding, as you have to keep crossing a main highway into London. Times, Sunday Times
The disorderly procession went three times _deiseal_ (according to the course of the sun) round each house in the village, striking the walls and shouting on coming to a door a rhyme demanding admission. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
And so, while she was demanding great things of us, she was also, in a way, undermining our ability to fulfill them.
The manufacture of a SADA II requires a demanding assortment of technologies - dealing with exotic materials, microelectronics, high vacuum, structure, and cryogenics.
The families of the dead men are now demanding compensation. The Sun
Raynal's Wrecked on a Reef is an articulate account written with great attention to the accurate recording of all the nasty, demanding details of their ordeal.
It must have been one of the most demanding exercises in our art history. Times, Sunday Times
After demanding that treatment be resumed, they were threatened with law enforcement action and effectively chased from the hospital. Health Reform | Obama's New Strategy, Democrats, Republicans
The 1912 Olympics in Stockholm are best remembered for Jim Thorpe's world record successes in the most demanding track and field events, the pentathlon and the decathlon.
The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, By Himself, published in 1845, is another example I cited -- "passionate, demanding, denunciatory, self-analytical: 'autobiographies' now differed from people's 'memoirs,' as their authors challenged themselves and the world to be honest about their own lives. Nigel Hamilton: Bush and Memoirs
Every once in a while, a rat-a-tat of heavy rain would pelt the windows, drowning out the demanding drone of wind.
We are demanding government question Mahendra kumar,Sunilkumaar,Aaraga jnaanendra and police officials on this dacoity by independent investigative agencies other than police department. Some press releases of the CPI(Maoist) Karnataka State Committee
Underplant with salad crops or undemanding flowers. Times, Sunday Times
For more than three weeks, villagers have camped out in their village hall demanding the ouster of the mayor and new elections.
Yet the other, demanding Guillem apparently insists on approving all her photos.
You are the racist because you are advocating cultural genocide by demanding people assimilate to what you call the Aussie way, which is really just the "white anglo-saxon way". Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
Meanwhile farmers have no option but to fork out the ever-increasing premiums that insurers are demanding.
The kids who get up at midnight and head out to a derelict wall to begin working on a graffito are working within a demanding tradition that requires the sequence of execution to have been worked out in detail in advance, before any mark can be made. Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is | Germaine Greer
A note from the other world will strike upon the chord of my being, and the spirit which has been dozing within me awakens and fiercely beats at its bars, demanding some nobler thought, some higher aspiration, some wider action, a more saturnalian pleasure, something more than the peasant life can ever yield. My Brilliant Career
He has a commanding presence, demanding attention and respect, and an image (glasses, suit and hat) that hasn't changed much in 30 years.
We scientists are usually rather mellow, undemanding folk.
Thousands of Israelis staged a peace march in Tel Aviv demanding their government withdraw from Palestinian.
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. Christopher Hitchens
The slavery expansionists originally took the position that the federal government had no role to play because they wanted slavery to gain a foothold, then when they realized they were losing, they switched to demanding that the federal government affirmatively defend the rights of slaveholders to settle the new land. The Volokh Conspiracy » European Libertarians and Federalism
Graduate school is highly demanding, both mentally and physically.
You have another demanding person to consider and can feel stressed and exhausted. The Sun
Wages, the drain demanding so much cash support from Mansour, further compound City's difficulties. Sheikh Mansour takes spending at Manchester City past half-billion mark
Unfortunately we, the English, will never be the people to teach her; because she is a chartered libertine allowed to say and do anything she likes, from demanding the head of the empress in an editorial waste-basket, to chevying Canadian schooners up and down the Alaska Seas. American Notes
By demanding quantifiable results, donors may force programme managers to choose easily achieved targets over less measurable actions that accord with sound humanitarian principles.
In effect, they demanding a quid pro quo - a reward for supporting the British in getting a targeted reverse-charge scheme which the French now also need to stop their own fraud. Another day...
Supporters of some candidates, it is alleged, are demanding householders hand over the postal ballot papers so they can fill them in themselves.
Turkey reacted by demanding an apology over what it called the discourteous treatment of Celikkol, further souring ties between the two regional powers on the eve of a visit by Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister. AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)
The women are demanding full equality with the men of their tribe.
Increasingly, campaigners are demanding that countries impose restrictions on advertising aimed at children.
In the middle of the program, he also started demanding kickbacks on the contracts to add to the stream of unmonitored revenue he was already getting from oil smuggling.
The daycare workers rejected the last offer precisely because the city was demanding more in givebacks in vacation cuts and health-care benefits than it was offering in a raise.
There are six rights and eight lefts, and the main straight is only 650m, so it will be quite demanding.
Of course not, and many campaigners who give their lives to demanding more could be relied on to say so.
In addition, current literature on known methods of sterilization, such as gamma irradiation, demonstrates efficacious employment, demanding that standard protocols be implemented for all tissue banks.
Authoritative: high level of demandingness (on the child) with high level of responsiveness (to the child) Parenting Styles and Obesity Risk in Adolescents | Dr. Sharma's Obesity Notes
He is a very confident person and he is a very demanding person.
In no case should an institution exact a price for these accommodations by demanding higher levels of productivity in exchange.
Even people with a heavily traditional diet are demanding external products either as occasional treats, such as gassy drinks or basic commodities such as white sugar and flour. 1 Food and packaging
One is yelling into a mobile phone, demanding to know why the taxi firm won't pick up groups of more than six.
Creation and purification of the double-labeled oligonucleotide is synthetically demanding.
You take swift decisions and make quick changes when situations are tense and demanding.
If the person making the demand has in fact a claim of right to the money, then it does not constitute the offence of demanding money with menaces because the circumstances do not amount to stealing.
September 18th, 2009 at 4: 41 pm neddy: What you're demanding from Behe sounds silly. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Because work is so readily available, we're beginning to take it for granted, so if it was a particularly demanding weekend, a lie-in on Monday morning won't do anyone any harm.
Such is the spark of creativity generated by the presence of a member of the executive committee demanding to be asked questions.
It has been a demanding day, but demanding is not obligatory.
Upon receipt of your instructions we will write to the debtor demanding payment of the outstanding sums.
One friend wrote that he was a demanding visitor, expecting to be fed and running up vast long-distance telephone bills: At the end of the visit he would offer 10,000 lire about Â£4, saying he hadn't used the 'phone much. "The Letters of Bruce Chatwin"
The workers are demanding an expansion and prompt payment of welfare benefits to the unemployed.
Sprint intervals and high-intensity weight training are demanding - make sure you have your doctor's clearance before trying either technique.
This was during Euro 2008, and when accounts broke in the Dutch newspapers, the then-manager Marco van Basten went on the attack, rubbishing the story and demanding to know where it had come from.
The telephone is a relatively intrusive technology, interrupting you from what you are doing and demanding attention.
Finally Jentilisa reports that young reservists of the army who fought by Rajoelina's side early in the crisis are now demanding that Rajoelina keep his promises (mg):. .ny rezervista tanora, nitolona tamin'ny andron'ny TGV, hidina an-dalambe izy ireo hitondra sora-baventy satria tsy tanteraka ny fampanantenana natao tamin'izy ireo, toy ny hanomezana asa ho azy ireo tahaka ny hoe fampidirana azy ho miaramila ary hotsinjovina manokana ny rezervista nanohana ny tolona. Madagascar Delegation Barred from UN General Assembly Stage
It was the noise of thousands of baby cormorants, razorbills, gannets and guillemots, demanding food from their nests on the cliffs.
Pupils at Bwacha High school in Kabwe yesterday demonstrated, demanding the removal of their head teacher whom they accused of being rude and insensitive to their needs.
President Nelson Mandela on Monday condemned what he called the demanding style of the weekend's rightwing protest against the imprisonment of Willem Ratte, saying no government could respond to such demands. ANC Daily News Briefing
Physically demanding labour has been replaced by less strenuous work in offices. Times, Sunday Times
She considers her strong self-discipline and self-demanding behaviour to be a problem sometimes.
Half of the 47 lessons observed were deemed unsatisfactory or poor and some teachers were found to have low expectations of pupils, giving them undemanding tasks such as colouring in.
Instead, he had to give some ground, admit that he's not going to meet this August deadline he's been demanding to combat what he calls inertia back in Washington. CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2009
Despite her increasingly demanding schedule, Samantha insisted she still finds time for herself.
She stared levelly at me, demanding a satisfactory answer.
He set the fur flying by demanding to see proof.
That these four tracks were recorded live offers the listener an opportunity to hear this quintet in the raw, without the safety net of a producer demanding a retake.
Many of us are guilty of demanding medicine from our GPs the second we have a sore throat or a runny nose. Times, Sunday Times
Electricity is the quintessence of the ‘modern way of life’, but the electric power systems themselves are demanding, dangerous, and delicate.
Within 20 days of the approval notice a dissentient shareholder must give a written notice of dissent to the constituent company demanding payment of the fair value of his shares.
The use of longer transitions requires a larger training corpus, increased storage for the transition matrices and is computationally more demanding.
April 4, 2010 (KHARTOUM) - Supporters of Yasir Arman, withdrawn candidate for the Sudanese presidency, protested today outside the SPLM's premises in Khartoum demanding him to compete again against President Omer Al-Bashir. Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
At one point a nearby neighbour harangued the protesters cursing at them and demanding they move.
The tribes, whose treaties guaranteed them the right to harvest sucker and salmon in perpetuity, filed lawsuits demanding protection for the fish.
When I was a Rhodes scholar, I was in a very demanding academic program, trying to cram an extra year's worth of work into my time at Oxford.
Students are demanding more opportunities for high quality work placements and internships as employment skills and experience become a central part of a university experience. Times, Sunday Times
The PNG government sent a second diplomatic note on April 7, again demanding an apology.
The workers are demanding increases to wages and pension benefits, having received none since 1997.
They are demanding that Clinton accept much of their proposal before they will increase the debt ceiling limit.
In January, an order was served on the company demanding that rubbish, rubble and waste was cleared from the land.
Important recent research by Marcus Raichle and his collaborators indicates a default, monitoring mode of brain activity, plausibly interpreted as including representations of one's current hedonic state, in the ventromedial prefrontal and posterior cingulate cortices, that is turned down by attention-demanding tasks, even by ones involving introspection into one's current affective state (Gusnard et al. 2001, Gusnard and Raichle 2004, Pleasure
But bars and beam are both my strongest events, and they are less demanding on my back.
Raising children is a demanding task; it requires energy and attention round the clock.
This track is very demanding for drivers with fast corners and it's enjoyable to drive here.
This can take up to an hour but it's undemanding and fills the house with wonderful aromas. Times, Sunday Times
She claims that up to 1,000 women were involved in the Hetian protest, demanding the lifting of a ban on wearing headscarves. China Feels the Heat
But don't go breathing a sigh of relief, for this is the most demanding task yet.
Paul is time-served in the demanding trade, but reckons he's as fit as he ever was.
undemanding" valuations and lower borrowing costs. BusinessWeek.com --
The department of work and pensions were demanding the money after the family were overpaid the money, which they spent on care.
There are two ways of making the universalizability requirement more demanding. Impartiality
Wages could also be higher than elsewhere in the economy as the bloodsucking, parasitic capitalist is not there demanding his piece of the action.
Patients with head injury should therefore not be pushed to return to demanding activities too quickly, and there should be a low threshold for seeking a specialist opinion or undertaking psychometric assessment.
His death on January 20 occurred at his usual mealtime, very significant for the chowhound who previously would have been demanding his dinner. When Animals Speak
The dentistry practiced in a public health setting is very demanding.
Both men are aware their boss is very demanding, extremely exacting and has already shown he has no interest in failure. The Sun
Police in Washington County are looking for two men who they say are showing up at people's homes and demanding money in what they describe as a driveway scheme. WPXI.com - Local News
The environmental group is demanding a complete prohibition against the hunting of whales.
Too many occasions ruined by intrusive waiters demanding that you shut up and listen to them describe what you are about to eat before you eat it, too many orchestrated removals of silver covers - abracadabra, hocus pocus!
The journey was physically demanding and fraught with bureaucratic hazards. Times, Sunday Times
She acted like a spoilt diva demanding to be the centre of attention and her foul mouth was far from ladylike. The Sun
He prejudiced his claim by demanding too much compensation.

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