Sentence examples for demanded of someone from inspiring English sources

And then my more rational friends got to me: "Why on Earth would you ever take a charge in a rec-league basketball game?" Taking a charge is only one of the many self-sacrificial acts demanded of someone who plays a sport.

It makes you pause for a second to think and it also makes you demand of someone like the current prime minister [Malcolm Turnbull] that they do live up to their convictions".

"And what's most important, he has a complete lack of experience, qualifications, or any trace of rational thought that conservatives demand of someone running for office today".

Jesus' death was exactly what Rome demanded for someone like him, the predictable outcome of the life he led.

But theological voluntarism can provide a straightforward understanding of the impartiality of morals by appealing to the claim that the demands of morality arise from the demands of someone who in fact has an impartial and supremely deep love for all of the beings that are morality's proper objects.

We feel it is demanded of us to be sorry and attentive when someone is ill.

When she couldn't pay the rest, he demanded the number of someone who could.

The sensation that Trump has shoved away his plate of scallops and demanded that someone bring him a big bowl of Sugar Puffs and a mixing spoon.

But she believes that demanding more responsibility of someone who is capable of fulfilling their moral obligations because they have at least some degree of autonomy might end up increasing their autonomy.

I'm optimistic that Congress and the Administration, without resorting to yet another study, can throw out the single remaining law that permits, indeed demands the firing of someone because of his or her sexual orientation.

Just as it demands someone of Tom Ford's vision to know which cheese to serve, and how much to slice off, it takes a designer of Mr. de la Renta's sophistication to know how to strike the balance.