Indeed, an outsider arriving from Saturn might demand, upon studying the American media, to know exactly what crime Kennedy is guilty of.
We often declare our independence, Fitzgerald thought, by declaring our allegiance to a cause that makes what Trilling called a "large, strict, personal demand upon life".
Throughout her fiction she attacked the problem of the world's persistent demand upon our attention, which overcomes even the security and seclusion of a room of one's own.
As erosion progresses and as lake enrichment and organic content increase, the lake may become sufficiently productive to place an excessive demand upon the oxygen content.
Commercial fishing, however, has intensified the demand upon the inshore species and thereby resulted in a reduction of the fish population.
In fact, skimming is about the only demand upon the reader that Snuff makes; it does everything else for you, and it is pointless to try reading it any other way.
The Israeli foreign minister, Shimon Peres, in a news conference Saturday night, placed a similar demand upon the Palestinians that he said would have to be met before the rest of the troops would withdraw from Palestinian controlled areas.
These factors reestablished confidence in the financial stability of the government; and, when the date for the redemption of greenbacks arrived, there was no appreciable demand upon the Treasury to exchange them for gold.
As defined by Lionel Trilling, the Young Man from the Provinces "starts with a great demand upon life and a great wonder about its complexity and promise"; he is intelligent but not shrewd; he has learned "something about life from books, although not the truth"; he "stands outside life and seeks to enter".
Within the low voltage system, the control of local voltages and the reduction of the peak demand upon networks and distribution transformers are important.
Most materials design problems of practical interest involve solutions with property/response sets that conflict in terms of their demand upon material structure at various scales.
