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"But when you're not offering market access, the onus is more on the demander -- in this case, the United States -- to show these other countries that there are benefits."
From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2023
He reverted to the conclusion to be drawn from the silk stockings: I replied "Puisqu'il y a des improbabilités des deux côtés, il faut demander au Duc lui-même."
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
Another dinner is mentioned by her at which all the guests were Americans, except M. Brillon, who had dropped in, he said, "à demander un diné à Père Franklin."
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
Yet he feared both of the women she was: the cautious and forethoughtful who might in all wisdom refuse his penury, and the spoiled demander who might resent it.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Rupert Hughes
He was, consistently with this general tranquillity of mind, a tenacious maintainer, though not a clamorous demander, of his right.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson
The point is that Steve Jobs was a participant in a process whereby suppliers compete with one another for the affections of demanders and demanders compete with one another for the affections of suppliers.
From Forbes ● Oct. 7, 2011
The story explained that the Brothers Levand were the demanders, that they had telegraphed Sen- ator Capper of Kansas to get busy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its demands for political independence, however, mean different things to different demanders.
From Time Magazine Archive
The demands were mutually incompatible, the demanders adamant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Are they to determine by the throw of a die, where they are to turn themselves, or which of these demanders of implicit faith they are to believe.
From The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old by George Bethune English
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