Word: demanding
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Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions. With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims and, as Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed...
...truly reflects the poor economy [and] certainly exacerbated the demand for institutional support," he said. "There are pressures on the financial aid program that haven't ex- isted for 10 or 12 years...
Baker also has to herd the brood into shelter for the night; although chickens naturally seek the safety of the pen, turkeys demand extra guidance...
...talks about a partial withdrawal. If he sticks to this logic, there will not be peace, because we cannot give up our land. If he does not agree to complete withdrawal from the Golan, I believe he will lose the support of the Israeli political parties that demand it. There are even rabbis, including the Chief Rabbi, who have said that the Golan is not Israel's land...
Diana's speech, her longest and most ambitious yet, made all the TV news broadcasts and all the papers. Her message was simple: the child who has been hugged and kissed and shown affection is less likely to demand attention by resorting to self-destructive behavior. But the tabloid press, always searching for subtext, heard the princess's remarks as a personal statement about her childhood, scarred by her parents' broken marriage, and her own marriage, marred by the rigid, distinctly unhuggy codes of royal behavior...