Sentence examples for agents demanding from inspiring English sources

Both feature the same tedious stock figures: slick, venal agents; demanding publishers; an insipid love interest who will be lost if the hero's dirty secret gets out.

A few American publishers have followed suit, deciding not to just sit around and wait for submissions from agents demanding extortionate advances.

A surprise police checkpoint uncovered the clandestine travellers, who clambered wearily off the truck, blinded by the powerful torches of the agents, demanding to see their passports and travel permits.

Layered atop those are changes hidden from most eyes, like the detectives paying visits to chemical companies that terrorists might contact, the immigration agents demanding credit card numbers from foreign visitors, or the hospital emergency room stockpiles of nerve gas antidotes.

While the policy appears unevenly enforced, U.S. citizens have reported an uptick in border agents demanding passwords and searching their devices at American borders.

Cheung said that Saverin, who he knows via mutual friends, grew frustrated by property agents demanding high commission rates for helping him find a place to live.

"Were there any other photographs of this meeting?" one of the F.B.I. agents demanded.

We have seen letting agents demand £800 in fees on a £650-a-month one-bed flat.

For example, possessory credits are routinely taken not only by a top director like Steven Spielberg but increasingly by first-time or unknown filmmakers whose agents demand it.

When he quit the BBC to join ITV Bashir and his agents demanded that he get a cut - believed to be 5% - of any revenues generated on the back of exclusives he pulled in.

In announcing his plan on Wednesday, Mr. Bush said one way to give the authorities stronger tools to fight terrorists was to let agents demand records through what are known as administrative subpoenas, in order to move more quickly without waiting for a judge.