It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

But investors are demanding very high returns if they are willing to lend to the developing world at all.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Supporters in the senators' home states were told to write hundreds of letters demanding that Johnson be found guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

He and three other cabinet members signed a note demanding that Lincoln remove McClellan as Commander of the Army of the Potomac.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

There was no money for rebuilding. To add to all these problems, radical Republicans in Washington were demanding severe punishment for the South.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

By eighteen seventy-one, radical Republican congressmen were demanding a new law to destroy the Ku Klux Klan.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

Those first attempts at demanding a "tax" of foreign ships evolved into highly organized hijacking operations.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Somali officials say some fishermen armed themselves and began demanding money from fishing ships near the Somali coast about ten to fifteen years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The high risk has investors demanding higher interest rates, and not only on Greek debt.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Baby care experts had believed that babies must be fed at the same times every day or they would grow up to be demanding children.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

But Marc Tucker says students who pass the exams could stay in high school and take a demanding set of exams at the upper division level.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The mother said that would only make the child needy and overly demanding.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

If that requirement seems demanding, Shakespeare's sonnets are also written in iambic pentameter.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

She had also requested a restraining order demanding he stay away from her.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Even if the hours are reduced, they are also clearly demanding.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Colonel Lee wrote a message to John Brown demanding his surrender.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Everywhere he turned, he found someone demanding that he vote guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Some in the crowd began demanding action against the rich traders.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

"Muvver!" The voice was more demanding.

VOA: special.2010.05.15