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Discover LudwigThe phrase "demanding someone" is correct and can be used in written English
It means to make a forceful request or requirement for someone to do something. Example: The boss is always demanding me to work overtime, even on weekends.
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The more time we spend whining about big banks and demanding someone make them pay, the worse off we are.
Bush Under Pressure Over Next Court Nominee As he chooses another Supreme Court nominee, President Bush faces redoubled pressure both from Republicans demanding someone with a clear conservative record on social issues and from Democrats emboldened by the unraveling of the nomination of Harriet E. Miers.
Demanding someone's acquiescence by saying that his vote doesn't really count sounds like the height of cynicism, and stirs unhappy memories of the butterfly ballots and imperious courts that brought Bush to office.
But doesn't demanding someone deny their own right to get married undermine the whole damn thing?
Deep for demanding someone match my definition of intellect and if they didn't have any sort of appreciation for say, a film where a drag queen eats dog shit, they were clearly not an intellectual.
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Aggieland demanded someone better, but neither Dennis Franchione nor Mike Sherman improved the program.
At 20 for three the situation demanded someone to battle it out.
It was the sort of contest that demanded someone take command.
"Would you all rather just talk among yourselves?" demanded someone from the stage.
He said Mr. Webster should not serve on the accounting board, which demands someone whose reputation is above reproach.
If elected, he has vowed that his first act as governor will be to demand someone's resignation, and you know who you are.
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