Sentence examples for demands in the name of from inspiring English sources

Papademos avoided saying how long the transition government would be in power, and hours after his appointment was announced it was still unclear whether Greece's squabbling political class had met his demands in the name of compromise.

But his portrait of the American democratic mind, imperially pious one minute, queasily unsteady the next, illiberally making demands in the name of virtue and liberally tolerating virtue's ambiguities, celebrating reason while distrusting its demands -- this mind remains as current now as it was then.

Organizations everywhere put up full-spectrum firewalls, draft byzantine and Kafkaesque security policies, send delegates to security conferences to talk very seriously in hushed voices about APTs, and make endless pointless and/or disastrously counterproductive demands in the name of security theatre, such as forcing people to use impossible-to-remember passwords.

These concerns (among others) have generated a situation where (as Linda Alcoff puts it) feminists aim to speak and make political demands in the name of women, at the same time rejecting the idea that there is a unified category of women (2006, 152).

It demands, in the name of national security, that we regulate it.

The commercial shows Cartman running a business under the Washington Redskins name now that it's no longer a protected trademark as a cartoon version of Snyder demands that he stop "in the name of decency".

In 1853, Perry brought a fleet of four heavily armed "Black Ships" into Edo Bay, near present-day Tokyo, and demanded, in the name of President Millard Fillmore, that Japan open its ports to American ships.

A promised throng of hundreds of thousands there and in 59 other cities will issue a unified demand in the name of Mother's Day that politicians find the will to regulate guns and their users as thoroughly as automobiles and drivers are regulated.

It was demanded, in the name of humanity, and according to the law of the living God.

Robson was vilified by the British press, and after a draw in a friendly with Saudi Arabia, one newspaper demanded: "In the name of Allah, go".

The sovereign claims of would-be centralizing, South Indian rulers and the resources demanded in the name of that sovereignty diminished the resources which local chieftains used as a kind of royal largess; thus centralizing demands were opposed on moral as well as on political grounds by even quite modest chiefs.