Demanded in example sentence

Human rights treaties allow for the suspension of some rights only if: (a) there is an officially proclaimed emergency which vitally threatens the life or security of the nation; (b) the measures adopted are required by the exigencies of the situation; and (c) the measures are applied only to the extent and for the time that are strictly demanded by the situation.

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In fact, this is the only war in American history in which the government negotiated a peace by conceding everything demanded by the enemy.

They went to the Board of Education and they demanded that the Board of Ed make some of the high schools accessible.

And so the media industries begged, insisted, demanded that Congress do something.

And when he demanded to know why he was being stopped, an argument ensued, and the next thing he knew, he was on the ground in handcuffs, being charged with "riding your bicycle on the sidewalk and resisting arrest."

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