Often, we're more worried about sounding demanding or overconfident than getting what we deserve," remarks Jennifer Wangers, founder of ENTITY, a platform for female mentorship, education, and community.
If Mr Howard is sensible, he will keep his party together by limiting himself to the reasonable-sounding demand for a referendum on the new European constitution.
This is what special commissions are for, although this agreeably tough-sounding demand for comprehensiveness directly conflicts with the half of an idea mentioned above, which went by the name of "road map". It was only half an idea, let's call it a notion, because this notion still depended on something close to a change in human nature.
Bud Selig, the baseball commissioner, has said that the desire to restore competitive balance is behind the owners' socialistic-sounding demands for sharing revenue and for taxing teams with high payrolls.
On the other hand, Curley's Spinoza must reject very natural-sounding demands of the PSR.
Here was the "uncompromising music" Olga Bloom always demanded, sounding a measure of her good life.
Anonymous, New York City I get it: You want a good night's sleep without sounding like Mariah Carey, demanding 200 calla lilies and 3,000 M&M's (green only!) for her dressing room.
Not unlike the 'please' in 'two pints of Guinness, please', it adds no real meaning but simply prevents the utterance from sounding curt, like a demand.
By the time Mitt had cleared the interview decks, he was sounding more earthbound and demanding that President Obama apologize for an aide who said that Romney had either lied or committed a felony.
For all the beauty and evenness of his tone Mr. Kavakos did not shirk at sounding coarse when the music demanded it; his instrument barked and bit suitably in the brittle Allegro brusco.
Collison said that the company has already seen "a lot of demand" for Atlas when sounding out startups ahead of this.
