Sentence examples similar to lofty demand from inspiring English sources

(What, you thought the Boss invented Yankee pressure?) Speaking of lofty demands, just down the road, the Phillies were supposed to go 162-0 aftheythey signed Cliff Lee.

These are lofty demands to make of an institution that before Sept. 11 was still struggling to reinvent itself a decade after the end of the cold war.

Between the lofty demands of society and the patchwork solutions we've drawn up to help cope with those demands, we're chasing ourselves in circles.

He weighs the demands of friendship and gratitude against the loftier demands of empire and the pitiless reality of war.

So Dick's tricky task was to balance the mundane need for cash against the loftier demands of his paper's integrity.

Buddhism upholds lofty and demanding ethical values, but recognizes the need to adapt those values to the conditions of the real world.

The Yankees were interested in acquiring Schilling, 37, from the Arizona Diamondbacks, but they retreated because of Arizona's lofty trade demands.

Such slips as he has had expose just how lofty and demanding is the normal standard of his art, which combines both lucid intellect and an almost saintly humility.

The recalibration of the stock markets from such great heights is likely to correspond with a capitulation in the lofty valuations demanded by founders over the past 12-18 months.

Then there's the heroine whose lofty dating standards demand a partner who's "a step up" from her vibrator, and the hero who — cognitively, at least — rates several rungs lower.

A recent survey of Brazilian health care published in the Lancet, an international journal, argued that SUS gets poor value for the money it spends on drugs, because too much goes on complying with court orders granted to patients who use the constitution's lofty promises to demand expensive treatments not automatically covered by the system.