He has asked for similar trades before, but it seems clear now that he wants to use Boko Haram's increased notoriety to show that it can force the government to accede to its demands.
The different versions of events underscored the deep-rooted tensions between the two nations, which have played a high-stakes game for several months, determined to make the other blink and accede to its demands.
For that, here's one bet you'll never lose money on: Digital technology always grows hungrier for more personal information, and we users nearly always accede to its demands.
A good example is the way Electronic Arts, the world's largest video-game developer and publisher, forced Microsoft's Xbox division to accede to its demands in online gaming.
I assume we felt that Iran had an irrevocable hard line and that we needed the courage to compromise and accede to its demands.
He accused Germany, the main driver behind the agreement and Athens' biggest lender, of treating Greece as a colony and using blackmail – the threat of expulsion from the Eurozone – to get Tsipras to accede to its demands.
The group, formed in 1959 to fight heavy repression of the Basque people by Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco, has announced cease-fires before, only to give them up when the government refused to accede to its demands.
The court quickly acceded to its demands for rough justice.
But with banks closed and on the verge of collapse and commerce at a standstill, the government appeared to have little choice but to accede to its creditors' demands.
The SamSam group is known for choosing targets that are the most likely to accede to its high ransom demands — typically the Bitcoin equivalent of about $50,000 — and for finding and locking up the victims' most valuable data.
Pagoulatos, and other critics of Greece's ruling Syriza party, have said that if the Greek government had acceded to its creditors' key demands earlier, it could have spared the country major economic harm.
