2. Verb. (third-person singular of demand) ¹
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Definition of Demands
1. demand [v] - See also: demand
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demands
Literary usage of Demands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"Stilicho assembled the senate in the palace of the Cesars ; represented, in a
studied oration, the actual state of affairs ; proposed the demands of the ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"WRIT of JVe exeat Regno, upon a legal demand against an Attorney, on the ground
of his privilege, by analogy to the case of equitable demands, refused (a). ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1904)
"It is involved in the demands that taxation should be uniform, that ground should
not be taken for public works without punctual payment in full, ..."
4. Peru by William Hickling Prescott (1900)
"The members of the council, while they listened with admiration to the disinterested
avowal of Gasca, were astounded by the boldness of his demands. ..."
5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"The demands of the commissioners were reasonable, and after some show of opposition
... One of the demands of the commissioners was that every man of the ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"... deceased sold and have the creditors of the estate establish their demands.
Dismissed. The facts are stated in the opinion. Opinion below, 24 8. C. 559. ..."
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