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Example sentences for "demanding"

Lexicographically close words:
demander; demandes; demandest; demandeth; demandez; demandis; demands; demarcate; demarcated; demarcating
  1. They have sent another message to the Sultan, demanding that hostilities cease while the terms of peace are being discussed.

  2. When Aron had come along, she liked the big man and thought that the years on Kligor would give her respite from a demanding reality.

  3. Aron took interest, demanding that the man start from the beginning again as he had missed the introductions due to slight surprise.

  4. Perhaps a party of ten coming in after hours, each demanding a separate bedroom, is considered as a disturbing and aggressive element, to be promptly sat upon and repressed.

  5. Holly also enlarges upon the inconsistency between demanding freedom in temporal affairs from Great Britain and refusing it in spiritual ones to fellow-citizens.

  6. It was too late when they awoke and saw that they could give no answer to the voice of posterity, demanding why they had perpetrated this crime.

  7. In the act of development of such a seed into its final growth there are, therefore, two things demanding attention, the intrinsic character of the seed and the external forces acting upon it.

  8. And withal at any moment might come a summons from Stuart, a letter from Stuart, a challenge from Stuart, demanding that she must be constantly and supremely on the alert.

  9. Finally, both ladies turned to Aureole, demanding what she intended to do in the matter.

  10. In Maryland the laws protected them by limiting the days of work in summer to five and a half a week, and demanding for them three hours of rest in the middle of the day during the months of greatest heat.

  11. They allowed no organization or constitutions of congregations without demanding the acknowledgment of all the Symbolical Books of the Lutheran Church as the doctrinal basis.

  12. The New York congregation was torn by factions, many demanding the resignation of Fabricius on the ground of "deportment unbecoming a pastor.

  13. Ušeničnik proved that the poor Slovenes were suffering an almost intolerable subjection at the hands of the Germans, but he persisted in demanding nothing more than freedom within the Habsburg Monarchy.

  14. Some of those theories have begun by boldly demanding that the home be abolished because it has been made a buttress of private life and property.

  15. Demanding all, deserving nothing, One small grave is all he gets!

  16. And did he, with a sublime myopia, pass her by without demanding that bit of pasteboard?

  17. Its congressmen were quite as aggressive as those from the North, and they were accused of being imperious in manner, when demanding that a stop should be put to Abolition petitions, and Abolition literature going South in the mails.

  18. The ambassadors of the three Eastern Courts had already presented their notes at Madrid demanding a change in the Constitution; and, after receiving a high-spirited answer from the Ministers, they had quitted the country.

  19. They had vainly been demanding arms since early morning; and even after the capitulation unsigned papers were handed about by men of the working classes, advocating further resistance.

  20. While demanding this sacrifice of Danish neutrality, England undertook to protect the Danish nation and colonies from the hostility of Napoleon, and to place at the disposal of its Government every means of naval and military defence.

  21. The movement against the Indians had, by the unwarranted behavior of the governor, been converted into civil war, nearly the whole colony supporting Bacon and demanding that the tyrant governor should be deposed.

  22. If Hulagu's army had won that battle, the Tartars would be in Cairo, and they might be demanding our submission instead of offering us an alliance.

  23. Now, suddenly, his agent is in my home, demanding that I, the cardinal camerlengo of the Sacred College, risk death by torture to deceive the pope and betray the Church.

  24. Thus it was that when Cardinal de Verceuil went to Fra Augustino da Varda, my Superior General, demanding that he order me to change my position on the Tartars, I realized it was time for me to come to a conclusion.

  25. Their emperor sent letters to all the monarchs of Europe demanding that they surrender.

  26. The cardinal would never have taken the first denaro picciolo from your sultan if he had ever known that it would lead to this--a Turk at his door demanding his help in a plot against the pope.

  27. Victoria joins me in demanding of you this fresh proof of self-sacrificing devotion to our common country!

  28. The horses were found in safety, Grizzle demanding oats with the impatience and attitudes of a wild beast.

  29. Several voices next apostrophized her, demanding what injuries brought her thither, and treating her silence as the effect of fear caused by an unjust power.

  30. The nobles of Placentia, roused to desperation, at last conspired against him, demanding and obtaining the aid of Ferdinand of Gonzagua, who detested Farnese also.

  31. One of their judges arrived in the meantime, demanding what they waited for, and where was Monsieur le Grand.

  32. Then the eager spectators gathered round the count, demanding an explanation.

  33. Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly.

  34. But the mercenaries continued to murmur and to refuse obedience to the commanders, complaining of their privations and demanding their wages.

  35. But the mercenaries broke into open rebellion and the more desperate, after demanding their pay on the instant, seized a tower which had hitherto defied all the enemy’s guns and surrendered it to the soldiers of the Republic.

  36. These movements lasted for a month, the deputies of the people demanding that the laws of 1547 be abolished and the most worthy of the citizens inscribed in the book of gold.

  37. He drew up a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, demanding a court martial.

  38. At length, on the morning of the 15th, a messenger arrived from General Brock demanding an immediate surrender of the town and fort.

  39. It would seem that the most arbitrary exercise of executive and legislative power, could not have prevented the people from rushing spontaneously to arms, and demanding their rights at the bayonet's point.

  40. When this was accomplished, he sent a flag demanding the immediate surrender of the place, saying, if the garrison resisted, they would be given up to massacre.

  41. Nor is his appetite fickle, demanding this or that particular article, and disconcerted if it cannot be obtained.

  42. It is satisfied with any thing to which the judgment directs; and though gratified, in a high degree, with dainties, when nothing better and more wholesome cannot be obtained, never demanding them in a peremptory manner.

  43. To the unscrupulous and ready-witted Argall this appeared a glorious opportunity of demanding the Princess as a hostage, and paying off old scores against Powhattan.

  44. These feelings are indirectly required in the precepts demanding love, and required, because when the latter does exist, the former will of course exist.

  45. The prisoners demanded the right of habeas corpus, and the court of Nauvoo issued a writ demanding that the bodies of the two accused men be brought before that court.

  46. Upon entering the shop the cruel militiaman discovered the cowering, trembling little fellow, and without even demanding his surrender, fired upon and killed him, and afterwards boasted of the atrocious deed to Charles R.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demanding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.