"Then police demanded everybody leave the building.
He's going to demand everybody play the game hard and play it right".
Yet in taking on a premise that might look like a bit of wish-fulfillment if deployed by a male writer of similarly satiric gifts (Men Have Anonymous Sex on Demand, Everybody Wins!), she confidently deploys this bland vocabulary to serve her own idiosyncratic ends.
"They can't eat the food that they're demanding everybody else eat".
It's like bragging about how much you hate lung cancer while demanding everybody smoke forty cigarettes a day.
Mostly I get things in the mail as the law demands … Everybody (including me) likes the rage-against-the-machine stories, but in the majority of cases the system works more or less as intended.
"There's a level of respect that he demands from everybody, and he gives it," he said.
"Many families say, 'We come to synagogue and everyone looks at our child,' but Judaism teaches every person is important, and that demands embracing everybody".
Now we need to come together around reform that reflects our values as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants; reform that demands that everybody take responsibility.
This revolution is the result of a mass popular movement focused on straightforward, practical demands that everybody can understand, whether they're religiously observant or lax, Christian or Muslim, Sunni or Shia.
Gail: If we're talking about principled but politically suicidal leaps, I can fantasize one that's a lot more positive: At the end of the retreat, John Boehner comes out and says that the Republican House members have decided to raise the debt ceiling, with no side demands, because everybody knows that if you borrow money, you have to pay it back.
