A variety of insistent demands came from up and down the network.

Three men were shouting insistent demands to buy him a drink.

"There was an insistent demand for information," said one official who attended the meeting.

Out of the blackness came an insistent demand for lights.

The most insistent demand these days appears to be from the Far East.

They answered three insistent demands in the early post-war years.

It was a low and insistent demand for privacy.

Barely into the data, she perceived Chem's insistent demand for attention.

But he is concerned that insistent demands by patients "open the door to injudicious use of certain drugs."

He would not be out long, but the cold calmed him with its insistent demand to put survival ahead of every other consideration.

On the eighth night Gorben at last gave in to the insistent demands of his generals.

He has refused to give in to insistent demands both from the public and by the Forum that he leave office.

We had ordered the ship to shut off the insistent demands of spaceport traffic control.

Vlan accedes to his son's insistent demands and also joins them on the trip.

But the insistent demand for change from the bottom also played what scholars say is an often overlooked role in smashing the communes.

My vision became hazy and I surrendered to the insistent demands of my memory.

The insistent demand for "more discussion" about Iraq tended to leave the impression that these Democrats had something on their minds.

Many saw in it a sincere wish for retirement, but still a willingness to accept the nomination should an insistent demand arise.

Both works depict agoraphobic responses by young people to the overpowering, insistent demands of existence.

The insistent demands of these three tasks leave me no time to fret and stew and run around in circles.

Darkwind nodded, and then the insistent demands of his stomach reminded him that they were both long overdue for a meal.

In the fuguelike hours between sunrise and noon, it is still possible to cook past the insistent demands of sunbaked desire.

Homespun in particular bolstered the expansion of slavery, with its insistent demands for plantation-grown cotton.

There is, in fact, a general and very insistent demand that I should come to London; but I see no good end to be served.

She did not want to let loose her dream, but somewhere on the other side of consciousness there came an insistent demand for her to wake.