Sentence examples for tried demanding from inspiring English sources

"We've tried pleading, we've tried begging, we've tried demanding," said Deirdre Sheridan, a seven-year resident.

A former congressman from Texas tried demanding $500,000 to secure a pardon for a white-collar ex-con.

About 50 protesters marched yesterday from Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, to the federal courthouse near the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge where the Louima case was tried, demanding that everyone responsible for the attack be brought to justice.

The firm could also try demanding higher prices.

"But there are a few people who try demanding it off people and I don't agree with that at all".

Engine Advocacy, a service that helps people call their local members of Congress, said that as many as 2,000 a second were trying demand so heavy that many of the calls could not be completed.

There's a grim parallelism between the two cases: much like Afiuni was jailed for doing something the law mandated of her,  Graterol is being tried for demanding, for his client, rights the law itself establishes.

This lone police medic tried to demand that the black bloc member take off his mask.

Other Tea Party-supporting members of Congress faced a similar challenge as they tried to demand that the supreme court overturn the health care law.

Other Tea Party-supporting members of Congress faced a similar challenge as they tried to demand that the supreme court overturn the healthcare law.

A young woman, variously described as "suicidal", an "immigrant", and a "rape victim", tried to demand an abortion under Ireland's widely promoted but ultimately useless abortion legislation.