Sentence examples for demanded in the name of from inspiring English sources

In 1853, Perry brought a fleet of four heavily armed "Black Ships" into Edo Bay, near present-day Tokyo, and demanded, in the name of President Millard Fillmore, that Japan open its ports to American ships.

It was demanded, in the name of humanity, and according to the law of the living God.

Robson was vilified by the British press, and after a draw in a friendly with Saudi Arabia, one newspaper demanded: "In the name of Allah, go".

The sovereign claims of would-be centralizing, South Indian rulers and the resources demanded in the name of that sovereignty diminished the resources which local chieftains used as a kind of royal largess; thus centralizing demands were opposed on moral as well as on political grounds by even quite modest chiefs.

With an influenza pandemic looming as an imminent probability, all physicians need to ask what sacrifices are demanded in the name of their profession and what minimal standard of risk would be acceptable in order to be able to continue working.

It demands, in the name of national security, that we regulate it.

I therefore demand in the name of the State the delivery of the possession of the Arsenal and munitions of war under your charge to the State authorities, to be held subject to the action of the convention to be held on the 4th of March next.

Look to the particulars instead, to the way it divided this once great and terrible city, to the way in which it demanded obeisance in the name of virtue, and to the way, finally, though saturated with terror and blood, it fell to forces both more subtle and more powerful.

The commercial shows Cartman running a business under the Washington Redskins name now that it's no longer a protected trademark as a cartoon version of Snyder demands that he stop "in the name of decency".

To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant".

Not the single-minded pursuit of fame and fortune, but instead a willingness to do the most outrageously demanding things in the name of entertainment.