The phrase "strange demand" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a request or requirement that is unexpected, unusual, or difficult to understand. Examples: 1. The CEO's strange demand for all employees to wear clown noses during meetings was met with confusion and laughter. 2. The landlord's strange demand for tenants to water the plants twice a day seemed excessive and unnecessary. 3. The teacher's strange demand for students to write a 10-page essay on an obscure topic left many students feeling overwhelmed and frustrated. 4. The customer's strange demand for a refund on a product they had already used was denied by the store's policy. 5. The politician's strange demand to ban all technology in schools caused controversy and debate among the community.
Now it has come up with a strange demand that will be far more difficult to satisfy: that its clients should pay 50 cents (or, presumably, 0.59 euros) on every barrel into a separate account that Iraq itself controls.Currently, Iraq's oil revenues are all supposed to go into an escrow account controlled by the UN.
For a property deemed not worth bringing up to the city's safety codes, 5 Pointz is in strange demand.
It feels slightly strange demanding money from a protest, but it feels necessary.
Mr Varoufakis, claimed that the Greek government had "bent over backwards to accommodate some rather strange demands by the institutions" and that it was "now up to them to come to the party".
He dismisses as suspiciously convenient Henry Adams's remark about horses "taking a new nature in becoming tame," and rejoins: "It may be enough to say that their nature allows them to suffer our strange demands".
There are country-tinged vamps, like "Backwards Down the Number Line" and "Kill Devil Falls"; there's surging minor-key psychedelia, part Crazy Horse and part Jefferson Airplane, in "Stealing Time From the Faulty Plan," with lyrics (by Phish's longtime collaborator, Tom Marshall) that suggest pressures behind Phish's dissolution: "Got strange demands placed on me," Mr. Anastasio sings.
I thought it was a little strange, but for some reason, I was willingly compliant to her strange demands.
They recoil from the strange demands contained in her will, which is read to them by an awkward, verbose notary (David Strathairn, who brings charm and wit to the peripheral role).
After praising Doughty's travelogue "Arabia Deserta" (the "words that exactly describe," the sentences that "meander"), he reflects on the benefits of war for the writer: it sends him out into territory — though it "may well be at home" — that, by being strange and demanding the acceptance of strangeness, forces him to develop a pure, honest, singular style that "shall be his monument".
Such users have steadfastly refused to adopt Windows 8 because they find it too strange and demanding.
Pass down a corridor of pioneering 20th-century movie and television equipment with another roster of plump names (orthicon, Plumbicon, iconoscope), and you begin to see how strange and demanding the creation of a moving image is.
