Sentence examples for odd demand from inspiring English sources

"To say comedy writers should take all this more seriously is an odd demand.

Four years ago when Mary Craig went to work as an assistant cook at an Ohio nursing home, her new boss made an odd demand: never discuss pay with the other help.

Afraid of sounding pretentious, he quickly followed that with: "Any bloggers in the room, please note that I said 'try.' " It seemed an odd demand coming from Mr. D'Agata, who would surely agree that "to try" makes the rhythm of that sentence far less elegant.

A country deserves four marks out of six for its trade policy, for example, if its average tariff is less than 16% and its customs houses run smoothly, marred only by the odd demand for "tea money" to speed things up.

It certainly sounds unburdened by commercial intent, a freedom that is perhaps a reaction to the odd demands of Withers's day job in advertising.

Most major 3D printer manufacturers had an odd problem: demand was seemingly huge, and they received more orders than they could comfortably produce.

This odd news demands further examination.

UPS claims it needs more part-timers to cope with the odd hours demanded by an ever more competitive shipping industry: many part-timers are used in midnight shifts.

Watch companies work in an odd market where demand for mid-level pieces is very fickle.

Cook, whom the US Department of Justice accused on Friday of privileging his company's own marketing over security in an odd legal filing demanding compliance, called on the government to withdraw its demand that Apple write special code that will allow law enforcement officials to guess the iPhone's password.

It demands odd, often comical, often sexy contortions.