Example sentences of "demand for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such ontological circumstances this allegedly public service must be singularly unsuited to objective assessment of any external demands for a reduction in its power or to encompassing any critical analysis which might cause loss of prestige . |
| 2 | Similarly the artist Goncharova 's original gorgeously coloured designs for traditional Russian wedding costumes were made austere in keeping with Nijinska 's demands for simplicity even though Les Noces was to be danced sur les pointes . |
| 3 | Schneidau follows Pound 's own broad hints by tracing his gradual alienation or liberation from these early admirations according as Ford 's demands for a prosaic strength in verse writing gradually won Pound over from the Wardour Street language of his own early poems ( such as ‘ Canzone : The Yearly Slain' , written in reply to Manning 's ‘ Korè ’ ) . |
| 4 | There could also be controversy over the executive 's rejection of demands for the age of consent for homosexuals to be reduced to 16 years . |
| 5 | He cited the decision to deny local activists the chance to amend the review , the leadership 's refusal to restore all trade union immunities , the rejection of demands for all-black sections within the party and the strengthening of Shadow Cabinet power . |
| 6 | Local people mutter and march , make speeches and throw things ; staff face sarcasm in nearby pubs ; and for years there have been demands for a public inquiry . |
| 7 | It was a turbulent time for college principals , and many were unable to cope with the urgent demands for change which constantly assailed them — not least from their own undergraduates . |
| 8 | A SALESMAN who threatened to poison food at Marks and Spencer stores unless his demands for £140,000 were met was jailed yesterday for five years . |
| 9 | Road pricing is inflationary : through demands for higher pay from car-users , and businesses passing on costs in prices . |
| 10 | But like the Chinese students , crowds of East Germans — with chants of ‘ Gorby , Gorby ’ - may vent demands for liberalisation which their aged leader will not permit . |
| 11 | The Labour Party Conference : Victory for Kinnock as demands for PR are firmly rejected |
| 12 | Conference delegates endorsed their leader 's determined stand after Roy Hattersley , Labour 's deputy leader , warned that for the party to concede demands for PR would be ‘ an act of historic folly ’ . |
| 13 | Mr Cook also repeated demands for arbitration to settle the ambulance staff pay dispute . |
| 14 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 15 | ‘ District health authorities will be under a duty to ensure that demands for both acute and community health care are adequately met , and their performance in discharging this vital function will be monitored . ’ |
| 16 | Demands for the NEC to draw up proposals for widening the party franchise were led by John Edmonds , general secretary of the GMB . |
| 17 | Then the trade deficit will make it hard to lower interest rates without undermining sterling , while at the same time reinforcing industry 's demands for cheaper money to help it compete . |
| 18 | It urged the East German leadership to respond to demands for freedom ‘ not with the police but with understanding and open-mindedness ’ . |
| 19 | He warns us against being seduced by ‘ a new and … illiberal ‘ liberal ’ orthodoxy' designed to accommodate demands for a law protecting Islamic sensitivities . |
| 20 | Mr Howard was responding to Tory grassroots demands for the Government to do more to relieve homelessness and allow councils to spend more of their own cash to provide homes . |
| 21 | The debate also brought demands for privatising the pits . |
| 22 | O'Connor points out that demands for the game in Budapest is based on the dangerous presumption that the Republic will beat Northern Ireland — a result they have yet to achieve after three meetings . |
| 23 | The Hindu report infuriated the opposition in parliament and there were renewed demands for the resignation of Mr Gandhi , who has repeatedly been accused of attempting to cover up the scandal . |
| 24 | Labour demands for the Government to impose credit controls instead of high interest rates to curb borrowing were ‘ a cruel deception ’ because they were unworkable . |
| 25 | It answers Muslim demands for more political power and offers the Christians promises that Syrian troops will pull out of western Lebanon within two years of the reforms taking place . |
| 26 | The debate also brought demands for the Government to ban ‘ acid house ’ parties . |
| 27 | It included demands for ending the House of Lords and abolishing fox-hunting . |
| 28 | There is nothing in common between all this , which consists in ‘ real , services , and the fixing and payment of money benefits , financed in great part by one special tax called ‘ contributions ’ — at least there is nothing common to these two functions which justifies demands for their being the province of one minister . |
| 29 | They therefore had no wish to be restricted by British manoeuvring for postwar influence , and were unsympathetic to British demands for international control . |
| 30 | They stood by their demands for back-dated bonus payments . |