He said access to reporters had been one of the inmates' principal demands since negotiations began.

Their principal demand was that they not be repatriated to Cuba.

Conventional psychology's principal methodological demand is for the kind of objectivity promised by the laboratory experiment.

But the rebels signaled that they might resume talks if the government gave in to a principal demand.

But the principal demand, that Slovenia give up its claim to frontier border posts, was rejected.

This principal demands that only the minimum privilege be granted necessary to perform the task required.

And that is why the principal demand in these strikes has been the return of Solidarity.

The principal demand for borrowed shares comes from traders who want to sell them short.

The council's principal demand is greater waterfront access and more land for the nonpaying public.

Restoring public services is the principal demand of British voters, and that has focused the government on the need to move quickly.