Sentence examples for a string of demands from inspiring English sources

After being made Europe minister in 2001, Mr Buttiglione astonished colleagues with a string of demands that went far beyond his remit.

Pacific islanders will be turning up in numbers – almost all leaders are expected to attend, unlike in Copenhagen in 2009 – and with a string of demands.

In kidnapping him and threatening to kill him, the Islamic extremist group which has claimed responsibility made a string of demands related to US government policies.

Channel 4 News has turned down an interview with the Prince of Wales after refusing to sign a "draconian" contract with a string of demands including the pre-vetting of all questions and right to control editing.

Again, that was likely only the first request of a string of demands.

I came back the next day and made the first of what would turn out to be a string of demands.

In letters to former Prime Minister Tony Blair and other political figures he made a strings of demands including better equipment for troops fighting in Iraq, a badger cull to combat the spread of bovine tuberculosis, and the speeding-up of redevelopment at a hospital site which his own architecture charity was involved in.

Earlier this month hundreds of tickets to see Adele next summer appeared on resale websites for up to £9,000, the latest in a string of in-demand events seized on by the UK's most successful touts.

Carthage was almost defenceless and when besieged offered immediate surrender, conceding to a string of outrageous Roman demands.

Yet it has defied a string of UN Security Council resolutions demanding that the work be halted until inspectors can be sure of that.

Whatever the true figure 200,000 to 400,000, according to various estimates they have been enough to discomfort a string of governments by demanding the right to stay.