Are your sub-personalities demanding that you act in inappropriate ways, say and do things that you might later regret?
Perhaps this is because her truth-telling drive and her theatrical personality demand our attention first, and her artistry second: at her strongest, she seems a near prophet who happened to write lively, occasionally awe-inspiring prose.
A more specific cause of the use of unnecessary force by police officers is that by training and responsibilities, and many probably by personality, demand respect for their authority and expect people to obey them.
You're never going to be able to change your mother's personality or demanding nature so try your best to set some reasonable boundaries.
The new constitution has no place for a prime minister – Tsvangirai's current position – and the role of vice presidents is not suitable for powerful or even influential personalities with demanding parties at their heels.
The event was then only recently established but Chris's charismatic personality almost demanded coverage.
A commonly held theory about the Giants is that Manning, the receivers and the offense in general blossomed late last season only after an injury to Jeremy Shockey, a large tight end with a forceful personality who demanded the ball.
It is in Sneijder's personality to demand the ball and when a player is deemed so fundamental that entire formations must be drawn up around him, such exhortations can be hard to resist.
When Victoria Beckham sent out a tailored shirt with a near-ankle-length skirt, topped by a fedora hat, it was the first real sign that she is thinking, as a designer, beyond herself and what her own body and personality might demand.
From Haile Selassie, the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, to King Farouk of Egypt — both avid watch fans — the century's most eccentric heads of state maintained cults of personality that demanded a steady production of bespoke and bejeweled timepieces emblazoned with coats of arms and painted with colorful effigies.
