On Sunday, Mr. Assad added a new condition, demanding written guarantees that rebel forces would lay down their arms before his forces would withdraw.
PepsiCo also started demanding written assurances from its asset custodians that companies with which it did business were adhering to strong internal controls.
"Hawkins plays it superbly: exactly right for the part and utterly at ease with a role that is uniquely demanding," writes our own Peter Bradshaw.
Alleging that teachers "censored" her speeches by demanding written drafts before delivery and suggesting edits, Miss Haynes she had submitted a decoy copy of her leaving speech "just so I could say Ravo isn't perfect".
Damascus had agreed to the deadline but is demanding written guarantees its opponents will give up arms before ending its military action.
Despite researcher attempts to comply with Myriad's original request, increasingly aggressive letters arrived at Penn, demanding written assurance that BRCA testing had stopped.
He demanded written questions, to which he never replied.
But this is not the first time Judge Urbina has demanded written penance.
It has demanded written assurances that this would not be the case; the United States has refused to accept such restrictions.
He demanded written evidence from Francois that the party had done "due diligence" on Kaminski, which was not immediately forthcoming.
And the LDP's ethics committee has demanded written explanations from the 51 party members who dared to defy Mr Koizumi in that lower house vote.
