Besides, the Japanese Government can't control how much its citizens import unless it replaces markets with Government-run cartels - a peculiar demand for the U.S. to make.

Prices of Treasury securities were little changed and interest rates were basically flat in light trading yesterday, as dealers began coping with the peculiar demands of a holiday-shortened week.

It was one of Taraza's peculiar demands, which Odrade had learned to answer out of wordless instinct, which then could be formed into words.

It was a peculiar demand at best, given the fact that neither man has said anything about Ms. Ferraro that could possibly be construed as personal.

Ms. Whitman had one peculiar demand: When they came calling, each bank had to bring an item bought on Ebay.

The music's peculiar demands have made finding the right players a difficult task, Mr. Johnson concedes.

There were a lot of peculiar demands at supersonic speeds.

Both the laptop computers and the Epson printer have been modified only slightly for the peculiar demands of weightlessness.

To be precise, he has taken advantage of the fact that contemporary artists have finally learned how to adapt to the peculiar demands of this sort of exhibition.

Emissaries from the Bernal household brought increasingly peculiar demands, none of which troubled him in the least.