Difference between Demanding and Exacting

DEMANDING vs EXACTING: ADJECTIVE

Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
Requiring others to work hard or meet high expectations.
Requiring much effort or attention.
Requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
Requiring great care, effort, or attention.
Making severe demands; rigorous.
Severe and unremitting in making demands
Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
Requiring precise accuracy

Attended by exaction; requiring close attention or application; arduous; laborious; absorbing: as, an exacting office or employment; exacting duties; exacting demands upon one's time.
Given to or characterized by exaction; severe in requirement or requisition; exigent in action or procedure: as, an exacting master; an exacting inquiry.

Urging, Calling, Pressing, Seeking, Requesting, Asking, Hard to please, Tightened, Exigent, Tight, Rigorous, Stern, Strict, Stringent, Exacting

Picky, Harsh, Intensive, Onerous, Rigid, Arduous, Discerning, Intense, Stringent, Rigorous, Stern, Exigent, Demanding, Strict, Fastidious

Insisting, Urging, Calling, Pressing, Seeking, Requesting, Asking, Tightened, Exigent, Tight, Rigorous, Stern, Strict, Stringent, Exacting

Picky, Harsh, Intensive, Onerous, Rigid, Arduous, Discerning, Intense, Stringent, Rigorous, Stern, Exigent, Demanding, Strict, Fastidious

They are demanding more freedom, civil rights, democracy!
Jesus considered their halakhah demanding divorce for adultery.
Prince, demanding back pay and better working conditions.
Such a chain is best constructed by placing the most demanding case at the top and the least demanding case at the bottom.
The presidency is very demanding, the campaigns are very demanding.
It is not a king demanding payment of his servant, but one servant demanding payment of another.
Demanding equal right of women to vote was different than demanding true legal equality for women, with an assumption of societal equality.
So instead of asking how demanding morality is we should ask how to make poverty alleviation less demanding.
Customers are not only demanding excellent service, they are also demanding more.
This is a physically demanding job and at times an emotionally demanding one as well.