The national security needs of the United States are being viewed by some leaders as imperious demands on their sovereignty.
Could it be that once the government got involved in financing, the public assumed the role of modern Borgias and Pope Julians, making imperious demands on artists?
Voted Ventriloquist of the Year three times in a row, Evie doesn't quite put the "evil" in vaudeville, but she's still imperious, demanding and entirely controlling of her son Joe.
He was a serial adulterer, an abdicator from family life; Frances ("Frankie") was a tall glamorous former shop mannequin, and, according to Albee's biographer Mel Gussow, "imperious, demanding, and unloving".
In the final chapter, Carlos endures the interrogation of his comrades, and after a fair number of imperious demands for explanations of his behavior, thinks, "It was an error, another error" — his tone betraying a crushing fatigue, and more than a touch of annoyance that the reward for all his efforts should be another act of political contrition.
One-step aromatization of glycerol to value-added aromatics is a very promising way not only owing to the growing byproduct of glycerol in biodiesel manufacturing but also due to the imperious demands to provide a sustainable route for aromatics production to alleviate the dependence on fossil fuels.
Our sons need to know that while the imperious demands of surging hormones may say much about what they want, they say nothing about what they may take.
This manifests itself by an imperious demanding of wanting what one wants when one wants it; my way or the highway.
In the 1920s and 1930s he made imperious demands for a Jewish state "on both sides of the Jordan river" when the Jewish community in Palestine was small, weak and in need of friends in a dangerous world.
