demanding
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- v request urgently and forcefully
The victim's family is demanding compensation - v require as useful, just, or proper
- v claim as due or just
- v lay legal claim to
- v summon to court
- v ask to be informed of
- a requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill
found the job very demanding
a baby can be so demanding
- The pro-democracy students are demanding that these groups be brought under control and that those responsible for acts of violence be arrested.
- With elective C-sections, detailed birth plans and better medication, European women are demanding control over the birth process.
- The public is not whipped into a frenzy demanding reform.