Sentence examples for clamour at from inspiring English sources

Japan now finds itself navigating a tricky diplomatic course: proving its commitment to the nuclear negotiations while satisfying the clamour at home for the abductees' return.

Headlined "Nigel Farage echoes the people's view on Syria", the paper praises the Ukip leader, saying he "has hit the nail on the head with his trenchant attack on the clamour at Westminster for military action".

The competition for entry – there are now 1,500 applications for 180 places and, when the school first opened for business, police had to be called to still parental clamour at the gates – suggests the dissenters are a small minority.

For now, the clamour at home and abroad for Japan to use the extra tax revenue to tackle its public debt – now worth 230% of GPD – and pay for rising health and social security costs is being drowned out by Abe's mantra of growth.

If there are reasoned arguments behind Cameron's attempt to create a "clarifying moment" on the conflict, they won't penetrate the clamour as at home we rehearse the arguments for and against intervention yet again.

So will headteachers be forced to become childcare providers if enough parents come clamouring at the gates?

The Visigoths are always clamouring at the gates these days; the death of the publishing industry is forever being forecast, sometimes enthusiastically, by the bringers of cultural darkness.

Not only has nobody sought to define the concept, but it could prove misleading, dishonest and damaging.The term first cropped up in 1993, at a time when former communist countries from central Europe were clamouring at the doors.

With a food bank in every town, a Big Issue seller on every street and strangers clamouring at the gates, it is just plain wrong to seek a life of mindful calm.

If the British are increasingly clamouring at the gates of the old Catholic city, it may be crucially because most of the undergraduate teaching is in English, a rarity on the continent.

Dim sum served up by this team of chefs is so popular that, at its peak, the wait for seating can be three hours long, with crowds clamouring at the door, held back by one woman armed with a headset microphone so she always has the loudest voice in any spat.