Word Finder - demanded

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To request forcefully.

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I demand to see the manager.

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To claim a right to something.

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The bank is demanding the mortgage payment.

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To ask forcefully for information.

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I demand an immediate explanation.

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To require of someone.

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This job demands a lot of patience.

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To issue a summons to court.

Elise demanded, grabbing her with a shake.

Kiki demanded and frowned.

No one demanded anything of him or sent him anywhere.

Dusty demanded, turning to Jule.

Hannah demanded, looking up at Toby through tear-swollen eyes.

The count," pointing to his portrait, "definitely demanded that he should be called."

He demanded in a controlled voice.

The envelope had a mind of its own, and it drew her back to the coffee table - demanded that she tear it open and read the answer.

What did you do, Gabriel? she demanded at last, the fire flaring in her eyes once more.

Kiki demanded at last.

Ully demanded and snatched his shoulder.

Darian demanded, taking her other arm.

Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

But all eyes demanded that he should submit.

To throw off this burden as quickly as possible, on the third day after his arrival he went, angry and scowling and without answering questions as to where he was going, to Mitenka's lodge and demanded an account of everything.

Deidre demanded, materializing beside them.

Katie visited after church to check on her and demanded to know the entire story.

Jonny demanded, at once guarded and tense.

The fact he bit me? she demanded.

In order to appease the wrath of Apollo, who had visited the camp with a pestilence, Agamemnon had restored Chryseis, his prize of war, to her father, a priest of the god, but as a compensation deprived Achilles, who had openly demanded this restoration, of his favourite slave Briseis.

The assembly chose a board of Twelve Men to represent it, and a few months later this board demanded certain reforms, especially that the membership of the director-general's council should be increased from one to five by the popular election of four members.

Finally she one day demanded a name for the power, the existence of which she had already conceived in her own mind.

The members of this party were those who had demanded an advance from Vilna into Poland and freedom from all prearranged plans.

I should have demanded the freedom of all navigable rivers for everybody, that the seas should be common to all, and that the great standing armies should be reduced henceforth to mere guards for the sovereigns.

The soldiers and officers again demanded action.

For leave to sit by their wattle they demanded contributions of fuel.

They abused the police and bribed them, made out estimates at ten times their value for government stores that had perished in the fire, and demanded relief.

To her own surprise a power of life and hope of happiness rose to the surface and demanded satisfaction.

Can't you just take what you need? he demanded.

Are you making this up? her boss demanded.

Stop Claire, Darian all but demanded.

Where.s Kris? she demanded.

You saw Evey? nishani demanded.

Did ikir kick you out? she demanded.

Are you hurt? he demanded.

Why should I be upset at betraying you? she demanded.

Dusty demanded when the door closed.

The wazir consented to everything demanded of him.

In the preceding years it had carried most of the reforms which were demanded in Great Britain; but it had failed to obtain the assent of the House of Lords to its Irish measures.

Sir John Bowring, who represented Great Britain in China, failing to secure the reparation and apology which he demanded, directed the British admiral to bombard Canton.

Happily for the future of the world, the government of the United States felt itself able to accept the despatch which had been thus addressed to it, and to give the reparation which was demanded; and the danger of war between the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race was averted.

The three northern powers thereupon agreed upon what was known as the Berlin Memorandum, in which they demanded an armistice, and proposed to watch over the completion of the reforms which the Porte had promised.

Rhodes himself was not removed from the privy council, as his more extreme accusers demanded; but he had to abandon his career in Cape politics for a time, and confine his energies to the development of Rhodesia, which had been added to the empire through his instrumentality in 1888-1889.

Under the will of his father, Colonel William Berkeley, the eldest illegitimate son, had the castle and estates, and on the failure of his claim to the earldom he demanded a writ of summons as a baron by reason of his tenure of the castle.

He created and enforced a strong ducal power which, however, was met by many baronial revolts, one being in 1078, when he demanded from the Apulian vassals an " aid " on the betrothal of his daughter.

As might be expected, the walls demanded frequent restoration from time to time in the course of their long history.

The cahiers or written instructions given to the deputies covered well-nigh every subject of political, social or economic interest, and demanded an amazing number of changes.

The club of the Cordeliers, led by Danton, demanded not only his deposition but his trial.

Austria demanded help from Prussia under the recent alliance, and the claim was admitted.

Finally, in the trial of the king he demanded, with the Girondists, that the sentence should be pronounced by a vote of the whole people, and not simply by the Convention.