Greece's creditors met demands for less austerity by imposing more.
The International Ski Federation lifted a threat to suspend Russian skiers from competition after national officials met demands to improve their antidoping program.
By fire and later by ax, forest clearance met demands for building materials for homes and ships, for fuel, for charcoal for iron smelting, and, not least, for more available land for cultivation and pasture.
Within days of the launch the then education secretary Michael Gove had agreed to a meeting, and soon met demands to write to all teachers in England and Wales about FGM.
Officials from the European commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the IMF – the so-called troika – will spend the next 48 hours assessing whether Athens has now met demands from its creditors to make bigger reductions to its budget deficit this year.
The Scottish Premier League will take no disciplinary action against Hearts after the club met demands over payments relating to delayed wages.
