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

In order to keep the currency convertible they had to keep interest rates high to prevent people from demanding the gold.

为了保持货币的转换性,他们不得不将利率提高,以防人们向他们索求金子的兑换。

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And, as in the French Revolution, that is 1789 and following, and as in 1848, clubs of women began to form demanding rights.

随着法国一七八九年革命,及其后的发展,大约在一八四八年,女权俱乐部开始形成,主张女权

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

VOA: special.2010.01.28

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

VOA: special.2009.03.13

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

VOA: special.2010.02.18

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

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

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

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

VOA: special.2009.07.02

The FNDD has opposed the coup since it took place in August, and is demanding a return to democracy and constitutional order.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

And,he says this means the government will have to consider greater social services so as to keep these increasingly demanding workers content.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

(Sound) Twenty years ago, thousands of students braved riot police in Prague, demanding an end to decades of communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Gates told Asian defense officials they were all familiar with North Korea's tactic of creating a crisis and then demanding payment to end the crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says grass roots activists are demanding that Republicans adhere to conservative principles in advance of next year's midterm elections.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's stinging words came after Turkey withdrew its ambassador to Israel and and called the U.N.Security Council to an emergency meeting demanding an impartial investigation into Monday's deadly attack.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Clinton said a North Korean missile launch, for any purpose, would be a provocative act and a violation of U.N.Security Council resolution 1718 - approved after its 2006 nuclear test- demanding an end to Pyonyang's nuclear weapon and missile programs.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Richard Goldstone, who headed the U.N.inquiry, wrote last week to the Democratic chairman and senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Howard Berman and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, demanding changes to correct what he called serious factual inaccuracies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

"We felt like no matter how non-violent you were, unless you had a law on the books or a decree by a court, that the same restaurant that could open up its door to a black person on Monday could close it on Tuesday if there were no law demanding it be kept open."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16