What's the difference between demand and suffice?

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.

Suffice


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.
  • (v. t.) To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.
  • (v. t.) To furnish; to supply adequately.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a folly to think measures to fix eurozone governance will suffice, however needed those may be.
  • (2) Around 10(7) leucocytes, corresponding to 1-10 ml blood, sufficed for the analysis.
  • (3) Since slight hydrostatic pressure on the subepithelial side suffices to reverse the net transfer, it is assumed that in vivo the filtration pressure of the capillaries is the motive force for net transfer into the lumen.
  • (4) Suffice to say, it was a long, difficult haul with various scares and alarms along the way.
  • (5) After pretreatment with ranitidine, a specific histamine H2-receptor antagonist, the diastolic pressure rise no longer sufficed to maintain a constant systolic pressure during LBNP.
  • (6) Our results demonstrate that the partial reduction of a guanine nucleotide, probably relative to some other compound, suffices to initiate sporulation.
  • (7) A two compartment model sufficed to account for the decay of the oral plasma concentrations in all seven subjects.
  • (8) Clinical judgment may suffice to classify the clinical severity of patients at the time of enrollment in prospective trials and can provide a useful method of controlling for casemix.
  • (9) 7 particle sufficed to initiate AAV antigen synthesis.
  • (10) The kinetics indicate that alkylation of a single SH group suffices to block opiate binding.
  • (11) 125I tests in vitro today play a very important role and suffice der detection provided radio-immunoassay is carried out, whether the latter concerns iodine hormones or the thyreotropic pituitary hormone and provided the diagnosis is not confirmed by one single examination.
  • (12) It was calculated that in all animals, 10(-14) mol of IL 1 induced significant neutrophil accumulation, whereas in many animals, as little as 10(-15) mol of IL 1 sufficed.
  • (13) Atenolol 50-100 mg and bopindolol 0.5-1.0 mg sufficed to cause reduction of DBP to the target of less than or equal to 95 mm Hg, when applied as monotherapy.
  • (14) "Satisfactory reduction" is insufficient in discussing ankle fractures; only perfect anatomic reduction will suffice.
  • (15) But [in the long-term] not just any solution will suffice.
  • (16) By delineating the structuring of this dilemma, in the context of a human studying the sensing of chemicals by bacteria, the author demonstrates that the untenable assumption mentioned above does underlie the traditional Western viewpoints; and this demonstration suffices to show the traditional Western 'World-View' as fundamentally flawed.
  • (17) Inactivation exhibits pseudo-first-order kinetics and a reaction order of approximately one for both enzymes, suggesting that modification of a single residue per protomeric unit suffices for inactivation.
  • (18) These data suggest that low concentrations of PAF-acether stimulate the human platelet secretion by activating the cyclo-oxygenase pathway, whereas higher concentrations also trigger other mechanism(s) that suffice to induce human platelet secretion and full aggregation.
  • (19) This method sufficed to straighten the penis in 10 patients.
  • (20) These localized lesions can suffice for the diagnosis of RV dysplasia in the absence of associated pathologies, such as ischemic heart disease or congenital defects.