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That leaves Mr. Scholz facing the delicate act of balancing the export-oriented needs of his domestic economy with pressure from allies to leverage his country’s position to make demands on the Chinese.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2024

Then there's what happens when millions of electric cars make demands on the electricity grid.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2021

But STL isn’t a set of demands made by artists — it’s a group of theaters, in one community, coming together to make demands on themselves.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2020

He needs to make demands on the public to take this seriously.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 9, 2020

His self of one day would make demands on his self of another; and some of the demands might be urgent and tyrannical, while others were gentle and easily put aside.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James




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