What's the difference between conjurement and demand?

Conjurement


Definition:

  • (n.) Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
  • (2) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
  • (3) Bastille were 2013's big British breakthrough band, but you'd be hard-pushed to mentally conjure the image of what they actually look like.
  • (4) Photograph: Mondadori via Getty Images Because that decade was scarred by multiple evils, the phrase can be used to conjure up serial spectres.
  • (5) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
  • (6) Suárez conjured space on the left of the box and his cross-shot bounced off the post and out to Downing, who sidestepped two defenders before firing a shot that Kenny beat into the path of Kuyt, who poked the ball in from five yards.
  • (7) Quietly, the children would huddle together and ask each other: “What will you have for breakfast?” And I remember saying: “Maybe an egg or a piece of bread and butter,” and tried to conjure up memories of home.
  • (8) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
  • (9) In her journals, Cook conjured her in her mind, and it was someone other than herself.
  • (10) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
  • (11) Obama was politically isolated, unable to conjure broad international support or congressional backing.
  • (12) I fear that Corbyn is likely to discover, pretty quickly, that the rhetoric of change is easier to conjure than change itself.
  • (13) And despite the images of backroom deals and leather furniture that a snifter conjures up, whiskey is for everyone.
  • (14) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
  • (15) He then wins the next point after conjuring a perfect return from a near-perfect serve, after a drop-shot that Nadal returns with not quite enough interest, but clips the top of the net at 30-40 and the game's gone.
  • (16) "I don't want to be doing plays that are conjuring badness, because they make you feel full of badness.
  • (17) Kyrgios overcame a back injury and a two-set deficit to somehow conjure a 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 8-6 fourth-round triumph over Andreas Seppi at Melbourne Park on Sunday night.
  • (18) You cannot conjure your actual personality, which you can remember only vaguely, in a theoretical sense.
  • (19) Brendan Rodgers' team had made enough chances in a vastly improved second half display to merit the point but arguably Sturridge and certainly Suárez should not have been on the pitch to conjure the late reprieve.
  • (20) The ghosts of some of those conjured characters seem to inhabit the space.

Demand


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience.
  • (v. t.) To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question.
  • (v. t.) To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care.
  • (v. t.) To call into court; to summon.
  • (v. i.) To make a demand; to inquire.
  • (v. t.) The act of demanding; an asking with authority; a peremptory urging of a claim; a claiming or challenging as due; requisition; as, the demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand.
  • (v. t.) Earnest inquiry; question; query.
  • (v. t.) A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to possess; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand.
  • (v. t.) That which one demands or has a right to demand; thing claimed as due; claim; as, demands on an estate.
  • (v. t.) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.
  • (v. t.) The right or title in virtue of which anything may be claimed; as, to hold a demand against a person.
  • (v. t.) A thing or amount claimed to be due.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (2) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
  • (3) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
  • (4) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
  • (5) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (6) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
  • (7) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (8) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
  • (9) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
  • (10) But the company's problems appear to be multiplying, with rumours that suppliers are demanding earlier payment than before, putting pressure on HTC's cash position.
  • (11) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
  • (12) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
  • (13) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
  • (14) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (15) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (16) This study demonstrates the effectiveness of such care, which is multidisciplinary, demanding, and may need to be prolonged.
  • (17) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
  • (18) For such a task, Malawi needs the best government it can get, and this will have to be demanded by the people.
  • (19) The prime minister insisted, however, that he and other world leaders were not being stubborn over demands that the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, step down at the end of the peace process.
  • (20) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.

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