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demanding English

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demanding

If someone or something is demanding it needs a lot of time, attention or effort. I have a very demanding job and it takes me an hour to relax after I get off work. Tommy is the most demanding child I've ever babysat; he always needs something.

demanding

requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill found the job very demanding a baby can be so demanding

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Simple sentences

Tom and Mary don't have much time to talk together. Their children are always demanding their attention.
Tom is demanding.
If you're so demanding of others, you should also be demanding of yourself.
Tom is finding his new job very demanding, and he often finds it difficult to find time for his family.
Tom was demanding.
She was a very demanding girlfriend.
Mary is a very demanding girlfriend.
Even though Tom has a very demanding job, he always makes time for Mary and the kids.
They are demanding shorter working hours.
Don't be so demanding.
She's demanding too much.
Tom's boss is very demanding.

Movie subtitles

We are demanding evacuation Please evacuate.
The gangsters were demanding from father Moche an immediate share of the loot from their last few jobs.
THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WISHES TO REPORT. THAT THE WORKERS OF FREEDONIA ARE DEMANDING SHORTER HOURS.
Ah. My statue is demanding you know.
I shall write a letter to the Egyptian Queen. demanding that she meet me in the public square in Tarsus.
You've got stern and too demanding.
They're demanding to see your father.
They are shouting against the Glinskys and the Zakharins, burning and pillaging and marching on the palace, demanding to see the Tsar!
Here I am suddenly demanding secrets.
Touchy and demanding masters, as you'll see.
You're very demanding, but if my master grants me the power.
Don't be so demanding.
Demanding things and then leaving just like that.
There are some who will approach you arrogantly, demanding.
The workers of Freedonia are demanding shorter hours.
I don't mind at all. This letter demanding that you call upon her at five o'clock. Was sent to you by Diana Roggers sometime yesterday.
You were demanding information from me without any proof of your authority to do so.
If it's difficult, I'm demanding.
Very demanding.
Not until arranged in order of the caravan do they begin to agree to carry their load above the demanding terrain.
The curriculum is demanding and hard.
The curriculum gets more and more demanding.
Yes, the customers got too demanding.
Do you want the jealousy, the possessiveness the misery, the exacting, the demanding?
I'm demanding.
Precisely by demanding an explanation you overstep your place.
That night I decided to run away from them. to flee forever. without demanding my 18,000 francs. so that I wouldn't be the only thief in the family!
First you were demanding the rest of your dough.
Demanding things and leaving like this.
I want your work to be less demanding, quieter duties.
Details at this moment are sketchy, but the bomb was found in the airplane after an unidentified person demanding extortion money telephoned airline officials and told them the explosive was aboard.
We're wasting time being demanding with women.
His mother was a clinging, demanding woman, and for years the two of them lived as if there was no one else in the world.
After Pierre Michel was to hard and demanding leader, He became his confessor good.
Now that we had bad luck, he gets all demanding?
It's bad enough to march in here demanding a place to perform harakiri, but then you quibble endlessly over naming your second.
They even went to the estate, demanding an explanation.
Michel, I'll try to be less demanding.
Lovely persons aren't demanding.

News and current affairs

They fear, rightly, that sooner or later everyone else will begin demanding that the budget deficit be closed in part by raising taxes on the rich.
Demanding a full-fledged democratic transition as a pre-condition for normalizing US-Cuban relations is both unrealistic and unpalatable to Latin America.
We are better targeting our external assistance and capacity building programs, and we are ready to use our trade and economic muscle, when necessary, by demanding counter-terrorism clauses in bilateral treaties.
They will become important as Russia moves to the next stage of growth, and so these new businessmen are demanding these reforms.
Statements by Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Kofi Annan and others on the occasion of Arafat's death have been forceful in demanding a speedy and long overdue resolution of the conflict.
Now survey data, too, suggest that Saudis may well begin demanding a more transparent politics and a less interventionist religion.
And, of all the major parties that are contesting the election, only the PMLN is demanding the reinstatement of the judges.
On the contrary, the smaller centrist parties that scored a victory in the recent European Parliament elections are now demanding a return to full proportionality.
As things now stand, he would be justified in demanding greater international support rather than allow his country to bleed to death as Argentina is now doing.
And if China becomes too aggressive toward its neighbors - for example, by demanding rights to offshore oil or territory in disputed waters - it will generate a serious diplomatic backlash.
They are now demanding that the rule of law and justice return to their central place in public life.
The fundamental problem that much of the world faces today is that investors are overreacting to debt-to-GDP ratios, fearful of some magic threshold, and demanding fiscal-austerity programs too soon.
If a majority of the countries present dares to declare that demanding consensus is equivalent to enforcing paralysis, and if they insist upon following the voting procedures enshrined in the UN Charter, we could see enormous progress.
The terrible death count in Moscow, much as Russians may want to seek revenge, must also help all Russians see that Chechnya is a political problem demanding a political, not a military, solution.
The point, simply, is that with so many people in so many countries demanding far-reaching change, the politics of gender is very much in play - in Europe and beyond.
More people are not supporting Koizumi's annual pilgrimage to Yasukuni, with seven former prime ministers jointly demanding that he refrain from the visits.
Just as citizens worldwide are demanding increased economic and financial accountability, more pressure must be placed on the US to either prove that its drone activities are necessary and legal, or to stop them immediately.
Of the two geopolitical focal points demanding America's attention, one represents the future and the other the past.
But something else happened: society became more demanding, recognizing its own interests and knowing how to express them.
People will not be satisfied with economic handouts or cosmetic changes in governance; they are demanding real change that puts their country on a clear path toward democracy.
But Wajeha al Huwaider, Bahia al Mansour, Rasha al Maliki, and many other activists are nonetheless insisting that driving a car is their legitimate right, and are eloquently demanding the removal of restrictions and an end to women's dependency.
Of course, some market participants might not be rational, demanding a higher risk premium following a short-term deterioration of the debt ratio.
Both China and India are demanding concessions from the US before they will even consider caps on greenhouse-gas emissions.
That is one reason that businesspeople in so many parts of the world are demanding clear and consistent environmental policies.
Within a single month, Gerhard Schroeder's Germany and Jacques Chirac's France first destroyed the EU's Stability Pact and endangered European monetary union by demanding--and receiving--special status for French and German fiscal deficits.
Demanding that others do as one says is never as productive as asking them to do as one does.
The right should in fact go even further, demanding that the General gives up his senator-for-life post and the immunity that goes with it.
The reality is that they were the perpetrators, not the victims, and it seemed particularly galling that they were continuing to hold a gun to the heads of governments, demanding massive bailouts and threatening economic collapse otherwise.

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