Sentence examples for I could demand from inspiring English sources

On the probabilities bandied about last week, I could demand a halt to all travel to Africa because of malaria, a ban on all foreign doctors because of over-prescription and the underpinning of all schools against a "potentially catastrophic" earthquake like the one in Italy.

"If I could predict what the unemployment rate was going to be a year from now, why, you know, I could demand the world," he joked.

Romney: [laughing] If I could predict what the unemployment rate was going to be a year from now, you know, I could demand the world.

If so, it could demand the money back.

As the market leader, it could demand exclusivity from partners.

For instance, it could demand that you pay a specific amount for services already rendered.

I think that could demand a little bit of adaptation.

(CO, Dispensary C, 2011, received 169,000) While some informants hinted that the bonus should preferably have been a bit higher, others emphasized that the bonus was a gift (zawadi) and not part of their regular salary, and therefore not something that they could demand: I was so glad to see that our superiors considered us, the people at the bottom.

I could take up space, demand my own desires.

I also felt our project could begin in earnest: we could demand of ourselves, and each other, the courage and patience to grow.

Nothing else could demand such immediacy.