Sentence examples for demanded state from inspiring English sources

If they demanded state funding for candidates, or supported higher salaries for MPs, then the polls show the public would be furious.

The central issue of political controversy became the schoolstrijd ("school conflict"), which pitted the liberal (and later socialist) advocates of state schools against the combined Calvinist and Catholic parties, which demanded state support for private ("special") schools equivalent to that provided to state schools.

With an unorthodox turn of phrase, the statement said Malawi had played host to other international stars including Chuck Norris, Bono and the footballers David James, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville, "who have never demanded state attention or decorum despite their equally dazzling stature".

He demanded state spending limits and new districts for legislators, along with an overhaul of the state pension system.

The judgment, announced on Wednesday night, renders ineffective a 1986 law known as the Expiry Law of Demanded State Punishment, which has given impunity to the Uruguayan armed forces for human rights violations committed during the dictatorship there, according to the Center for Justice and International Law.

To protect the farmer from alleged wheat trade monopolies by speculators and officials, the league demanded state-owned mills, grain elevators, banks, and hail insurance companies.

Baroness Parminter, the party's environment, food and rural affairs spokesman, is demanding state intervention to promote "healthy eating behaviour".

The difference between a school and a class room should be the most obvious thing for a person demanding state courtesy to decipher.

Faced with competition from China and offshoring to low-cost locations like Eastern Europe and Morocco, its first instinct is to demand trade barriers, outlaw layoffs, punish companies that produce abroad or demand state subsidies.

The convergent conception of the standard view is, after all, demanding: state coercion must pass muster before the bar of religious and secular reasons.

On May 19 , 1961 11 Bengalis were killed in Police firing in Silchar Railway Station, Assam, while demanding state recognition of Bengali language.