Demands

Examples

• It, too, demands understanding and direction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The surplus he holds merely as custodian, and it is passed on to the younger members of the community as necessity demands. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• The East came to the Western capitals with perplexing demands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The size of their following, the intensity of their demands are a fair index of what the statesman must think about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Their development demands continuous alternation and readjustment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was a profound observation when Bernard Shaw said that men dread liberty because of the bewildering responsibility it imposes and the uncommon alertness it demands. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mrs Lammle demands. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Clearly it demands great readjustments of our social, economical, and political methods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After some time, when they observed that I made no more demands for meat, there appeared before me a person of high rank from his imperial majesty. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The varied and complex machining required on armor plate demands tools of enormous size and strength as well as varied purpose. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hence it appeals to thought; it demands that an idea of an end be steadily maintained, so that activity cannot be either routine or capricious. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Under these circumstances, and with the many demands already made on him, he must decline entering into any disputes on the subject of evidence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• No mode of behavior more imperiously demands knowledge of established modes of diagnosis and treatment than does his. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In this instance, demands for isolated plants for lighting factories, mills, mines, hotels, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The workers may protest, but industrial progress demands the more economic method. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• How often in great strikes have riots been started in order to prevent the public from listening to the workers' demands! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The lower mosses must live in damp, and even the development of the spore of the ferns demands at certain stages extreme wetness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We might be seeing it all this spring--even the Easter ceremonies at Seville, he urged, exaggerating his demands in the hope of a larger concession. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• When the demands and wishes of others forbid their direct expression they are easily driven into subterranean and deep channels. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Scien ce demands the conceptual rather than the merely sensory. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Their business is to make social demands so concrete and pressing that statesmen are forced to deal with them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here is a bank-note produced by the man who demands the boy who is received into the house and put to bed in a state that I strongly object to. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Their objects were as various as their demands. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The troubles of a family, the business of making money, the demands of a profession destroy the elasticity of the mind. Plato. The Republic.
• Miss Eyre, you are not so unsophisticated as Adele: she demands a 'cadeau,' clamorously, the moment she sees me: you beat about the bush. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The task of politics is to understand those deeper demands and to find civilized satisfactions for them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• What he does and what he can do depend upon the expectations, demands, approvals, and condemnations of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But there were plenty of contradictions in his imaginative demands. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Much longer had I to endure her demands on me in the way of work. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The Singer machine met the demands of the tailoring and leather industries for a heavier and more powerful machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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