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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
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 Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
She was one of those young ladies who, when asked for a waltz or a polka, freeze the impudent demander by replying that they play no dance music—nothing more frivolous than Mozart.
From The Lovels of Arden by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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 Beste, Henry Digby
The use of "demand" in the sense of "ask" is borrowed, possibly, from the French use of demander.
From Practical Exercises in English by Buehler, Huber Gray
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
The demands were mutually incompatible, the demanders adamant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its demands for political independence, however, mean different things to different demanders.
From Time Magazine Archive
That quality peculiar to the necessaries of life of being able to create their own demand, or to raise up a number of demanders in proportion to the quantity of necessaries produced.
From On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by Ricardo, David
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