As a consequence, the IRS has been under enormous pressure to speed up and aggressively investigate applications for tax-exempt status -- both reasonable demands, if carried out impartially.

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If Mr Chavez picked someone similar, to offset his own unpredictability, they say, he might calm jittery foreign investors, even while meeting some of his supporters' reasonable demands and calming their wilder ones with populist, but unthreatening, gestures.

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Airport management believes its demands are reasonable but opponents of the expansion do not.

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These demands are reasonable.

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In negotiations over a new contract for teachers, his demands have been reasonable.

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She claimed that the European Parliament's demands were "balanced and reasonable".

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At a time of budgetary austerity and swelling demands for foreign assistance, it is reasonable to re-examine how existing aid programs are apportioned.

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But the demands that they made, very interestingly enough, were very reasonable and they're focused on restoring life in the communities, on security, on reconstruction, on compensation, which I think are all very reasonable expectations.

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One answer is that they're not real demands, they're negotiating ploys, designed to drag more reasonable concessions out of the developed world.

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