Example Sentences
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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
“Est-ce qu’ils vont me demander un autographe? Est-ce qu’ils vont m’arrêter?”
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023
When this atrocious law was at last abolished, Montesquieu wrote, "On a vu souvent des peuples demander des priviléges; ici le souverain accorde le droit de toutes les nations."
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
La société a le droit de demander compte à tout agent public de son administration.
From The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens by Farrand, Max
Ses chapeleins fet demander, Ses briefs escriure & enseeler; Par ses messages les manda, Et pur ses amis enuoia; Pur ses homes, pur ses parenz; Mult i assembla granz genz.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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