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

That I think is a real virtue but it can come at the price of demanding short term accountability.

我认为这是个优点，但是可能会,付出短期责任的代价。

斯坦福公开课 - 微软CEO-Steve.Ballmer谈科技的未来课程节选

This is by far the most learned and the most demanding lyric poem that Milton writes.

这是目前为止弥尔顿所写过的,最博学读来也最吃力的一首抒情诗了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.03.13

If people start demanding payment on their notes then they will destroy the system.

如果人们开始要求纸币价值的兑现,他们将摧毁这个系统。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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 agrees that it's theft. He's more demanding than Joe.

他同意这是盗窃，而且比乔苛刻。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

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

If they start demanding then we're in trouble.

如果他们开始要求，那么我们将会陷入困境。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

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

Banks began demanding early payment of loans.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

He was extremely intelligent and very demanding.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Since April,Bollywood film producers had halted the release of new Hindi films demanding a higher share of profits from multiscreen cinemas.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

But the spirit of those Olympics always remained close as he developed early skills at the demanding Whiteface Mountain venue.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

President Obama is demanding that the final budget cut the federal deficit, reform health care,fund education and reduce U.S.dependence on foreign oil.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

The protesters have occupied a central commercial district for more than two months, demanding the government step down and allow new elections.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15