Example sentences of "'s demand [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 5 | Being used for draught work until quite recently , the French animals retained their size at a time when British cattle were deliberately bred smaller and more short-legged , and these bigger , muscular , fast-growing and later maturing French types now meet today 's demands for lean ‘ supermarket ’ meat cuts . |
| 6 | Through the rest of that summer and autumn the Prime Minister 's demands for major raids by 5,000 to 10,000 men could not be met because there were no craft to land them . |
| 7 | Mr Baker 's demands for more emphasis on grammar began a ridiculous debate in the newspapers , during which most participants revealed their misunderstanding of language by taking for granted that the rules of grammar are fixed and permanent throughout time . |
| 8 | A comprehensive survey of feudal and allodial tenures ( in the Bordelais only ) was made , and it is significant that Edward 's demands for military service from Gascon vassals in 1294 closely followed the lists of vassals in the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 . |
| 9 | Seemingly valid claims by the Los Angeles County that such a proposal was economically and politically unrealistic contributed to undermining the EPA 's demands for maintaining strict attainment deadlines . |
| 10 | We took advantage of a comprehensive review of strategic guidance in Wales to press home our view that land use planning must play a central role in reducing society 's demands for finite natural resources . |
| 11 | With Sudan already declared a " defaulter nation " with outstanding debts of US$1,200 million to the IMF , the government 's demands for fresh credits of $1,500 million were made dependent on an IMF-approved austerity programme which included currency devaluation , price liberalization and an increase in tariff and interest rates . |
| 12 | Pavlov 's demands for wider economic powers were rejected on June 21 by Gorbachev , who openly criticized conservative deputies who had used Pavlov 's remarks as a platform for launching an attack on Gorbachev 's leadership . |
| 13 | Hailed by Sir David Wilson , the Governor of Hong Kong , as " a good agreement for Hong Kong " , the memorandum was widely seen as the UK acceding to China 's demands for a greater say in Hong Kong 's affairs , although Sir David claimed that it would not give China a veto over the Hong Kong government . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major , who was in telephone contact with Yeltsin during the evening of Aug. 20 , endorsed Yeltsin 's demands for Gorbachev 's release . |
| 15 | On the issue of compensation for Japan 's pre-1945 colonization of Korea , Nakahira rejected Chon 's demands for financial compensation for property damages and deaths of Korean citizens . |
| 16 | Koffigoh was reportedly taken by his captors to meet President Gnassingbe Eyadema ; Eyadema , who had been stripped of his executive powers by the national conference , condemned the attack , although he had repeatedly supported the military 's demands for a change of government . |
| 17 | The name was taken from the date in 1991 on which 14 people were killed by Soviet troops during the crisis over Lithuania 's demands for independence from the USSR [ see pp. 37944-45 ] . |
| 18 | The election process generates very little information about the population 's demands for specific public services . |
| 19 | Secondly , by denouncing the CFDT 's demands for industrial democracy and restricting negotiations to the traditional issues of pay and hours , the CGT ensured that the May events would have little impact on the future structure of industrial relations . |
| 20 | But with the exception of a little doubt as to what the relatively vague adjective hardy might mean , the husband eventually proves a worthy man against all of these criteria : clever enough to be a successful merchant and therefore rich ; hospitable and generous ; and apparently able to fulfil his wife 's demands of him in bed . |
| 21 | The bureau is interested in its sponsor 's demands as a basis for the formulation of its budget . |
| 22 | Politically the Conservatives integrated many of Labour 's demands into their own pragmatic philosophy . |
| 23 | Bradman 's and Lipton 's demands on speed , cost and high-floor areas are no less than other developers ' . |
| 24 | J T Scoulding in Hudsons Ward spoke of housing , ‘ the immediate necessity of which is only too apparent and has been continually kept in the front of the Labour Party 's demands on the West Ham Council ’ , education ‘ free from the elementary school to the university thus give our class equality of opportunity ’ , and municipal employment , ‘ the local authority being model employers and setting the standard for the rest of the community in respect to wages and conditions of employment ’ ( Election leaflets , 1919 ) . |
| 25 | Hence Adorno 's demands on the use of a single stylistic principle — such as Picasso 's cubism or Schoenberg 's twelve-tone music — whose implications and permutations must be consistently worked through in order to achieve ‘ aesthetic rationality ’ ( Bürger 1984–5 , p. 127 ) . |
| 26 | While in theory the costs of the ministry of defence 's demands on the railway system could be charged directly to it , in fact relations between parts of the state machine are governed by considerations of bargaining and relative power , rather than accounting clarity . |
| 27 | Not so with the GR-1 ; all of us here have sat and played it and no-one has had too much difficulty adjusting to the GR 's demands in a very short space of time . |
| 28 | Observers also pointed to Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov 's demands in June for extended powers [ see p. 38272 ] and to the closed sitting of the USSR Supreme Soviet on June 17 , when Marshall Dimitry Yazov , Boris Pugo and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov respectively Defence Minister , International Affairs Minister and KGB Chair , supported these demands , Kryuchkov warning of continued danger from United States intelligence agencies . |
| 29 | It is hard , however , to gauge the effect man 's demand on the woodland had on the landscape at this time . |
| 30 | Mr Prescott 's demand for the tunnel to be taken into public ownership goes beyond existing Labour Party policy . |