demanding

The patients are demanding to know how the surgeon was able to practise unchecked, despite warnings almost a decade earlier.

In the spring of 2011, when revolution swept the Middle East and Syrians filled the streets demanding change, Bashar al-Assad’s government set in motion a campaign of arrests designed to instill fear in the population.

“Those are the true bandits, demanding our rubles or else! ‘You are out of credit,’ they say.

The arch of her back softened, and she rubbed up against the children’s legs, demanding to be petted.

“It is from the postmaster, London General Post Office, London. I hope they are not demanding payment for the extra volume of mail, tee hee!”