Those elected officials and the Fox News hosts who echoed their demand insisted that the declassifications would demonstrate anti-Trump rot in the Justice Department.
"We are not trying to hold up prices; we are trying to drive demand," insists Jack McMaster, the CEO of KPN Qwest, one of the most aggressive fiber-optic builders in Continental Europe.
Dwight D. Eisenhower refused Khrushchev's demands, insisting that their Berlin agreement still held.
Several cleaning company executives said they did not have the money to meet the janitors' demands, insisting that it should come instead from the building owners.
As Spain's prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, came under mounting international pressure to accept the eurozone's fourth national bailout in two years, the government in Madrid angrily rejected the demands, insisting that it did not need rescuing.
Angela Merkel has rejected one of Theresa May's key Brexit demands, insisting negotiations on Britain's exit from the European Union cannot run in parallel with talks on the future UK-EU relationship.
The Bush administration has since multiplied its demands, insisting that better relations depend on big concessions on a wide range of security issues, from conventional force deployments to nuclear weapons and missiles.
The M23 mutineers – named after a peace deal they now criticise – want Congolese president Joseph Kabila to listen to their demands, insisting that they are ready to march on Goma if necessary.
He was particularly incensed by the small ransom demanded, insisting that his family paid double the asking price for his release, and when he became a general he crucified the entire population of the island.
