Example sentences of "their demands for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the government must offer the French-speaking Quebeckers an alternative to their demands for political sovereignty , which have grown in volume ( if not in clarity ) during the past winter . |
| 2 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 3 | Similarly , the use of contractors is sometimes the only way in which certain organisations can meet their demands for key computing skills . |
| 4 | Indeed , it is just the space between these contradictions that subordinate groups fill with their demands for legal change . |
| 5 | In a society where the uniqueness of Japan 's past weighs heavily , employers are able to justify their demands for personal loyalty and sacrifice in terms of longstanding cultural practices . |
| 6 | In return , the chairmen will want the PFA to drop their demands for 10 per cent of the TV revenue . |
| 7 | However , the increased productivity of labour may help many firms to cut costs , enabling them to reduce prices and to expand their levels of output , thereby increasing their demands for all factor inputs , including labour . |
| 8 | Indeed MEPs in Strasbourg would be well advised , as they prepare their demands for greater powers under EMU , to strike a united front with their national colleagues . |
| 9 | The rally , scheduled to take place on Aug. 30 , had been organized by church leaders from several denominations to support their demands for greater political freedom and a national referendum on political reform . |
| 10 | Few could have met their demands for additional labour internally , and not because they were hampered by rigid job demarcation system or lacked a workforce with adaptable skills . |
| 11 | Farmers in one of the most important regions are threatening a strike unless Mr Gorbachov meets their demands for higher prices . |
| 12 | They have slightly relaxed their demands for absolute obedience to the rules and do not think they are demeaning themselves by giving reasons for their ‘ do 's ’ and ‘ don'ts ’ . |
| 13 | And this will assist the fragmentation around the imagined absoluteness of ethnic differences upon which both the New Right and the ‘ cultural nationalists ’ from the ethnic minorities have been premising their demands for cultural separatism in education ( cf. |
| 14 | When they do , he 's probably so busy making tea , answering their demands for more sugar , and looking for his favourite mug in the debris that he ca n't concentrate on his red boxes . |
| 15 | The Group of 77 , as the developing countries called themselves , had already discovered the capacity of the opposing phalanx of rich , aid-giving industrialised countries either to stonewall their demands for more aid or for preferential trading arrangements , or to fob them off with empty , symbolic gestures . |
| 16 | People today are more outspoken , more assertive in their demands for social justice and more aggressive in the fight for social rights . |
| 17 | This is why modern governments , which must satisfy the demands for fraternal egalitarianism of the sons ( and the daughters ) , must also satisfy their demands for paternalistic beneficence in the form of the modern welfare state . |
| 18 | They stood by their demands for back-dated bonus payments . |
| 19 | Lithuanian leaders have clashed repeatedly with Russia over their demands for billions of dollars in compensation for the mess left behind by former Soviet troops . |