counter-demand love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A demand made by way of reply to another.

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Examples

  • And the BBC makes no counter-demand against the Iran regime's censorship of the BBC in Iran, that reciprocally, Ahmadinejad's mouthpiiece, 'PRESSTV', which broadcasts 24/7 from LONDON studios, on the Sky satellite, should be CLOSED DOWN NOW.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • Instead, there appears to be a climate of demand and counter-demand and a feeling BA must have that the government is just waiting for, willing them to default.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • Instead, there appears to be a climate of demand and counter-demand and a feeling BA must have that the government is just waiting for, willing them to default.

    [qantas and ba] why talks failed 2008

  • Every day they dunned us for tobacco; and when we made a counter-demand for the excellent fish which was caught in shoals, they simply asked, “What will you pay for it?”

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The Negrito's counter-demand to the king's third task (i.e., drink all the fresh water) is identical with the counter-demand to the task of counting the drops in the sea

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • This reply is not unlike the counter-demand to the third question in our story.

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • God, "by the counter-demand:" Show me _yourself_, and I will show you my

    The Basis of Early Christian Theism Lawrence Thomas Cole

  • They met this with a counter-demand of instant security against ultimate loss, and when this was refused as unjust to the other creditors of

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • "Will you fight for 'em?" was Simpson's counter-demand.

    Chapter III 1902

  • "Will you fight for 'em?" was Simpson's counter-demand.

    The Cruise of the Dazzler Jack London 1896

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