direct demand

Men came in response to the direct demand for labour.

In face of her direct demand for information he could not hark back to it now.

All the direct demand for resources will be created by lexicographers using Oedipus.

But parents also had a responsibility and it was too easy to direct demanding children towards the TV screen.

Indeed, instead of harsh government edicts, it seemed that this future Earth was ruled more by the direct demands of commerce and leisure.

The movements, for their part, have vented pent-up anti-Soviet anger without endorsing direct demands for independence.

The principle of solidarity, which can be articulated in terms of "friendship" or "social charity," is a direct demand of human and Christian brotherhood.

Most of the contributors called for the establishment of a sovereign, democratic and pluralist Slovenian state, although direct demands for independence were not uttered.

Back in the earliest accounts, she had come on one recorded line, a direct demand from Ship: You must decide how you will WorShip Me.

He irritated the occupiers, addressing them as equals or posing more direct demands, and advising Lupu Kostaki to behave in the same manner.

"Unless they face the situation of a direct demand of sexual favors for promotion or continued employment, our answer has to be, where there is no protection against discrimination for sexual orientation, they are unlikely to have a claim."

While he outwardly was rejoicing over the downfall and erasure of the Wolf, he appeared also to be unduly interested in any men taken in close company with that outlaw-though he made no direct demand concerning them.

As in all prefectures and municipalities, citizens may initiate chokusetsu seikyū ("direct demands"), i.e. mayor and assembly are subject to recall referendums, and the people can influence policies directly via petitions and plebiscites.

The former are expected to produce direct benefits, just like an investment in business research, while the latter are justifiable only when they satisfy a direct demand or, better still, sustain or create jobs; a business only invests in machinery when it expects to work more efficiently or turn out a new and better product.