Yukos is now in liquidation after the government demanded billions of dollars in back taxes.

Talks began in July but fell apart in October, after G.M. demanded billions of dollars in up-front payments from Nissan as a condition of a deal.

Last year, Ontario filed a suit in a United States court, demanding billions of dollars from American tobacco companies to treat smoking-related illnesses.

Instead it demanded billions in reconstruction aid, not acknowledging its own brazen violations of the Paris peace agreements.

Exxon is demanding billions of dollars in compensation for the nationalisation in 2007 of one of its oils projects in Venezuela.

They demanded billions in compensation from CRA - a total of half the mine's profits since it began in 1969.

Zia now found himself in a position to demand billions of dollars in aid for the Mujahideen from the Western states, famously dismissing a United States proposed $325 million aid package as "peanuts".

Iran would demand billions of dollars it says it is owed by the U.S. for weapons Iran paid for but were never delivered because of the toppling of the Shah in 1979.

They demand unlimited billions in exchange for this mess.

I have a few newspaper articles with me from recent years: Gaddafi demands billions from the EU.