Demands in sentence

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The plan demands the restoration of health-care services in 40 hospitals and 1,300 primary health-care facilities across the country, so that children and mothers can receive free essential care, vaccinations, and treatment for diseases like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and malaria.

When Abe failed to bow to its demands, ISIL released a second video claiming that Yukawa, who was seized last August in Syria while reportedly preparing to establish a Japan-based private security company, had been beheaded.

ISIL probably knows that Japan has historically placed the safety of its own citizens above all other considerations – even if it meant bowing to terrorists’ demands.

We cannot meet everyone’s demands, or solve all our problems at once.

These "outsiders" were often neglected in Europe's traditional political competition, and their demands received little or no attention.

Some of the demands of these voters are sensible and will improve policymaking.

If many investors demand repayment, borrowers have a hard time meeting these demands, even if the long-term projects are sound.

The most fundamental challenge facing China’s leaders, then, is to find a governance model that fulfills these demands while continuing to exclude electoral democracy.

They relentlessly but unsuccessfully pressured Montenegro’s leaders to remain in a dysfunctional union with Serbia, condoned Kostunica’s dubious 2006 referendum on a new constitution enshrining Kosovo as a part of Serbia, and weakened demands for Serbia’s cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.

America the Good makes demands on the evildoers.

Trump, like Bush, rejects negotiations, for fear of appearing weak, in favor of unilateral demands backed by the threat or reality of force.

And many of those who bravely fought for freedom had little political experience, placing an even greater premium on great leadership to channel Egyptians’ enormous energy – and their demands for greater social justice – into a shared vision and common purpose.

Within Indonesia itself, even with the Suharto era long gone, anti-communist sentiment remains strong, survivors remain cowed, and demands for justice and accountability remain few.

That is just one reason Indonesia’s campaign of killing demands much more of the world’s attention, and censure, than it has so far received.

As long as banks can make a profit from trading, they will continue to expand derivatives in excess of any legitimate hedging demands from non-banks, creating redundant products whose only function is to make profits for their inventors and sellers.

But in MENA countries, the conditions for doing business with the government – including tendering requirements, payment schedules, and bureaucratic demands – tend to be prohibitive for small firms (10-50 employees).

This global challenge also demands innovation in global governance, which is why we support the creation of a UN Environment Agency, endowed with the legal and financial resources needed to tackle the issues at hand.

It demands early intervention to put children on a positive health path, together with an adequate social safety net throughout citizens’ lives.

For developed and developing countries alike, the new demands cannot be met if health care continues to operate in the same way.

Political parties appear far removed from citizen demands, beset by internal divisions, incapable of addressing deep-rooted inequality and lawlessness, and prone to populist or authoritarian leadership that promises quick fixes to entrenched problems.

But Greece’s government needs to understand that other eurozone members will not be willing to accommodate its demands if it means delegitimizing their own painful reforms.

While America’s “war on terror” demands a stronger emphasis on security, the NSA’s activities expose an alarming willingness to violate the privacy of millions of individuals – including in allied countries, whose constitutions and sovereignty have also been breached.

The Warriors of God demands a pure form of Islamic practice throughout the Gaza Strip, including the implementation of Sharia religious law and a rejection of democracy.

Yet global cooperation means the willingness to reach agreements with other countries, not simply to make unilateral demands of them.

And the US is in the habit of making demands, not making compromises.

Now, however, they have fueled a collective sense of outrage that demands civil disobedience as the only possible moral stance.

Recently, the Board—seemingly lacking both any understanding of basic economics and democratic accountability to provide checks against its incompetence – published its demands for the next fiscal year.

This uncertainty has been at the root of demands for the state to intervene and protect the individual against the market's mercilessness.

But it must be resisted, because domestic peace depends on mutual respect for cultural plurality, because Europe's changing demographic profile demands more open borders, not a gated continent, and because the new right's inherent chauvinism is irreconcilable with the EU's survival and success.

Indeed, unlike in 2002, when the FARC could make impossible demands on the government, today’s environment favors the state, forcing the rebels to keep their demands realistic.

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