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demand

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

demand

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a petition calling for sth/demanding sth

▪ A petition calling for an inquiry was signed by 15,118 people.

ask for/demand an explanation

▪ When I asked for an explanation, the people at the office said they didn't know.

▪ Furious parents are demanding an explanation from the school.

call for/demand an end to sth (=publicly ask for something to happen or be done)

▪ The union is calling for an end to discrimination.

conflicting demands (=things that demand your attention)

▪ the conflicting demands of work and family life

consumer demand (=the demand for things to buy)

▪ Consumer demand decreased as a result of the recession.

contradictory messages/statements/demands etc

▪ The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.

customer demand (=the amount of something customers want to buy or use)

▪ It’s important to respond quickly to changing customer demand.

demand a halt to sth (=firmly ask for something to stop)

▪ Irish farmers demanded a halt to imports of British cattle.

demand a right (=ask for it firmly)

▪ We demand the same rights that other European workers enjoy.

demand an apology

▪ China continued to demand a full apology from the US.

demand compensation (=ask for it in an angry way)

▪ Political prisoners are demanding financial compensation.

demand equality (=ask for it firmly because it is your right)

▪ She marched alongside her mother, demanding equality for women.

demand sb's resignation (=ask for it forcefully)

▪ His political opponents demanded his resignation.

demand/call for action (=ask forcefully)

▪ Voters are demanding tougher action on gun crime.

demand/expect obedience

▪ Parents should not demand unquestioning obedience from their children.

demanding justice

▪ His people came to him demanding justice.

demanding money with menaces

▪ He was charged with demanding money with menaces.

demanding...ransom

▪ The kidnappers were demanding a ransom of $250,000.

domestic demand (=the amount of a product that people want to buy in a country)

▪ Exports fell by 0.5 percent while domestic demand grew.

electricity demand (=the amount of electricity that is needed)

▪ There has been a dramatic growth in electricity demand.

exacting standards/demands/requirements etc

▪ He could never live up to his father’s exacting standards.

fill a need/demand

▪ Volunteers fill a real need for teachers in the Somali Republic.

final demandBritish English (= the last bill you receive for money you owe before court action is taken against you)

impossible demands

▪ She was growing tired of the company’s impossible demands.

insatiable appetite/desire/demand etc (for sth)

▪ his insatiable appetite for power

▪ our insatiable thirst for knowledge

law of supply and demand

▪ the law of supply and demand

peak demand

▪ periods of peak demand for electricity

popular demand

▪ She will be performing here again next month, by popular demand.

ransom demand/note

▪ There has still been no ransom demand.

satisfy a demand

▪ The company was unable to satisfy demand for the product.

sth requires/demands (a) commitment

▪ Nursing as a profession demands genuine commitment.

sth requires/demands concentrationformal

▪ Writing an exam requires great concentration.

stimulate growth/demand/the economy etc

▪ the President’s plan to stimulate economic growth

supply and demand

▪ the law of supply and demand

the demand for energy

▪ The demand for energy in developing countries will continue to grow.

unreasonable demands

▪ Don’t let your boss make unreasonable demands on you.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

aggregate

▪ This intermediate variable then affects aggregate demand.

▪ In this sense the more predictable aggregate demand is, the more efficient the economy is.

▪ How changes in money supply affect aggregate demand is a highly controversial issue.

▪ As a consequence the equilibrium level of aggregate demand will fall.

▪ What is the relationship between money supply and aggregate demand?

▪ Thus a rise in the price level leads to a fall in the equilibrium level of aggregate demand.

▪ It may therefore produce greater uncertainty about aggregate demand.

domestic

▪ Exports fell by 0.5 percent while domestic demand, fuelled by annual tax rebates, grew by 0.8 percent in real terms.

▪ Yet, although domestic demand is weak, real interest rates remain high because prices are falling.

▪ Quite simply, domestic policy performance was not sufficiently competitive to match a high level of domestic demand.

▪ Although the economy continued to grow, that growth was being led by a rapidly increasing domestic demand for consumer items.

▪ The danger is that it will get worse as recovery brings increased domestic demand.

▪ Monetary policy is now geared to the exchange rate, not to domestic demand.

▪ Faced with growing domestic demand, further tree growing seems desirable, offering ample scope for the development of sylvopastoral systems.

great

▪ This led to an increase in urban employment opportunities and the expanding workforce gave rise to a greater demand for food.

▪ A company representative said they had not anticipated the great demand for Metrodin.

▪ Workplace 2000 will undoubtedly place greater demands on workers for performance.

▪ The latter group had the most difficulties and the greatest number of demands from the children.

▪ As he re-members, it was in great demand.

▪ Iznik pottery of the sixteenth century was again in great demand.

▪ Any computer-induced effects on employment may be offset, however, by a greater demand for information and analysis.

growing

▪ Expansion in output was fuelled by growing external demand and generally expansive domestic economic policies.

▪ The new products are part of a major SunConnect initiative to address the growing demand for tightly interconnected LANs and WANs.

▪ In fact the growing demand for immediate emancipation had captured organised antislavery at the national level by the spring of 1831.

▪ Pavilions of Splendour is the brainchild of Gwyn Headley who says the idea was born from a growing demand for unusual properties.

▪ But there is a growing demand for organic dairy, meat and egg products.

▪ College Principal Clive Brain says there's a growing demand for technological education and he's expecting large numbers of applicants.

▪ In turn the rural regions become much more productive as farmers appreciate the ever-present and growing demand for food from the urbanites.

▪ In addition, there is a growing demand for language courses coupled with a shortage of trained language teachers.

heavy

▪ Cattle in great demand selling to 165.5. Heavy lambs in demand.

▪ Or the heavy demands of professional careers.

▪ With the singular exception of property stocks, all sectors benefited from heavy demand, almost all leading shares sporting double-figure gains.

▪ Public service makes heavy demands on a man.

▪ There are heavy demands on people's time these days and a lot of rival attractions.

▪ Games that placed heavy demands on video and processor were never available for Windows.

▪ Movie magic can be heavy in its demands.

▪ It is not surprising, therefore, that old people make fairly heavy demands on medical care.

high

▪ He is confident the event should prove popular and has ordered more beer to meet the expected high demand.

▪ In the world of computer hotlines, good techs are in high demand.

▪ This produces in some islands higher than average demand and in others lower than average demand.

▪ Certainly, there is a high elasticity of demand at the fish market where our Chef Troy shops.

▪ The higher the demand and the lower the discount the cheaper bill finance will be.

▪ With high demand and continuing short supply, Schofield said vintners are resorting to other measures.

▪ Another is to transport coal slurry by pipeline from mines to power stations situated in areas of high electricity demand.

▪ It would also become clear which of the 70 pots of money were in high demand and which were irrelevant.

huge

▪ They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.

▪ And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.

▪ What we're experiencing now is a huge upsurge in demand for everything we do.

▪ A huge demands for apartments pushed vacancy rates down to the 1 to 2 percent level.

▪ Inevitably this level of prescription will produce a huge demand for information.

▪ The spread of multimedia is bound to create a huge demand for peripheral equipment of all sorts.

▪ But the harm caused by a political culture that makes huge material demands while discouraging economic initiative is incalculable.

▪ There is a huge pent-up demand for new cars, he said.

increased

▪ By extrapolation it is concluded that today's rising income levels generate increased demand for services compared with manufactured goods.

▪ He reckons it will disappear by the end of 1993, so increased demand will then spill over into higher prices.

▪ A stagnant economy heaps increased demands on government as more people are in need.

▪ Individuals tended to invest more, with an increased demand for certificates of deposit.

▪ Many older mains also required reinforcement to raise their capacity to match increased demand.

▪ A study of the emergence of the welfare state highlights the increased demands and responsibilities borne by government.

▪ In the 1880s, the expanding population of Liverpool led to an increased demand for water.

low

▪ This produces in some islands higher than average demand and in others lower than average demand.

▪ Sluggish economic growth means interest rates will stay low amid tepid demand for loans and a reduced risk of accelerating inflation.

▪ The smaller the proportion, the lower the demand and obviously the higher is velocity.

▪ User fees have two advantages: they raise money, and they lower demand for public services.

▪ The causes of absolute and relative low demand vary, suggesting that different responses are appropriate.

▪ At times of low demand, electricity can be used to pump water from a low reservoir to a high reservoir.

▪ High-cost oversupply has been compounded by extremely low demand.

▪ Iron oxide pigments sold well for paints, but continued to suffer low demand for building materials.

popular

▪ But there is no popular demand, and no need, to overturn our institutions in a fit of impatience.

▪ Both men created through their activities a popular demand for access to the very wilderness they sought to protect.

▪ As in many other countries, popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990.

▪ The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality.

▪ And now, due to popular demand, we can announce the arrival of the Megadisk!

▪ It was a thing that was created by popular demand.

▪ These colourful yarns, known as heather effects, are already popular and the demand is expected to increase.

▪ It is popular, in demand, and cheap.

strong

▪ Dallas: Demand was up for business services, with strong demand from technology, real estate, and finance companies.

▪ Analysts say the increase may stick for a few months because of strong demand.

▪ Managers have been resistant, but there has been a strong latent demand for telework.

▪ But after three relatively small grape harvests in a row coupled with continuing strong consumer demand, grape prices continue to increase.

▪ New government reports released Thursday showed fewer claims for unemployment benefits and strong demand for new homes.

▪ Against the backdrop of that strong demand are crop problems, which seem to be occurring world-wide.

■ NOUN

consumer

▪ Advertising strategy will be directed away from product-led treatments to focus on consumer demands.

▪ It is still rationalized by an elaborate and traditional, even if meretricious, theory of consumer demand.

▪ Manufacturing output jumped 0.8 percent between December and January, confirming the increase in consumer demand since the start of the year.

▪ The important role of consumer demand in determining the types and quantities of goods produced must be emphasized.

▪ They also affect the pattern of consumer demand.

▪ Elasticity applies not just to consumer demand but to product supply as well.

▪ Culture is generally regarded as a key determinant of consumer demand and purchase pattern.

▪ But after three relatively small grape harvests in a row coupled with continuing strong consumer demand, grape prices continue to increase.

curve

▪ Its falling demand for bills is shown by an upward shift of the demand curve to.

▪ That is. factors which cause supply to shift are distinct from factors which shift the demand curve.

▪ Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water.

▪ Why does a demand curve slope downward?

▪ If the demand curve shifts very much, and if it is inelastic, then monetary control will be very difficult.

▪ What happens to the demand curve when each of these determinants changes?

▪ Banks will merely supply whatever is demanded: in this case the supply curve is the same as the demand curve.

▪ Thus a rise in real government expenditure shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right.

energy

▪ Lee Schipper, an energy demand analyst from the Lawrence Laboratory in California, agreed.

▪ The environmental impact of humans' future energy demand needs further examination.

▪ This stood at 21% of energy demand in 1973 and was at only 22% in 1983.

▪ There will also be an increase in the proportion of total energy demand accounted for by coal.

▪ Coal consumption will fall from 13% of energy demand in 1983 to 11% in the year 2000.

▪ Even electricity demand, which has historically grown faster than total energy demand, decreases in two of the five scenarios.

▪ According to Johansson, government planners typically assess how energy demand has grown alongside economic growth.

▪ Between 1979 and 1981 energy demand fell by 12%.

market

▪ As a producer and processor of organic products, Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand.

▪ The rate was freed to float in line with market demand today.

▪ Higher inflation would enable old capital to stay competitive, but profitable capacity would then exceed market demand.

▪ As new firms enter industry X, the market supply of X will increase relative to the market demand.

▪ The religious festival, which began last Monday undoubtedly increases market demand for cast ewes.

▪ What are the major nonprice determinants of market demand?

▪ After 1955 an increasing amount of inner-ring suburbanization was produced by developer builders in response to market demand.

peak

▪ And during peak demand, discounts can vanish.

▪ Electricity companies use it to switch off certain loads, such as water heaters, at times of peak demand.

▪ It can protect your equipment from hazardous brownouts that occur when electric companies reduce voltage during periods of peak demand.

▪ Each household's peak demand was not measured directly.

▪ The demand for electricity is uneven throughout the day, involving certain periods of peak demand.

▪ To save the most money, consumers would have to change their habits to shift the times of peak demand.

■ VERB

cope

▪ In a year of recession, Land Rover is taking on more staff and increasing production to cope with the worldwide demand.

▪ In addition to their own emotional turmoil, parents must cope with the demands and expectations of those around them.

▪ My wife would need all the virtues in the world to cope with the demands of my life.

▪ If they have the resources and the foresight to cope with demand, you won't notice.

▪ However, the so-called Street v Mountford test fails to cope with the demands placed upon it by its own social context.

▪ Parents often need help in anticipating how to cope with demands outside sweet shops or in supermarkets.

▪ Could a Council be established which could cope with the demands made upon it by a multitude of members?

▪ For a long time she had been out of control, unable to cope with the everyday demands of her new royal role.

create

▪ And it is the relatively rich, in small towns and on the fringes of big cities, who create this demand.

▪ And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.

▪ The driving force of a flourishing society is individual acquisitiveness which creates demands that boost trade and increase the general wealth.

▪ Merck is not just creating demand for the equipment, it can actually produce business.

▪ Such concerns can create new and significant demands upon the staff management skills of new clinical directors.

▪ Now we have to create demand.

▪ This creates a demand for oxygen, so the heart works a little harder, and the lungs are fully used.

▪ Demonstration projects promote awareness of new technology to consumers, with a view towards creating a demand for the product.

grow

▪ There is growing demand for the nets, and Haji is confident he can meet it.

▪ Driving the change is consumers' growing demand for bargain-basement prices.

▪ The numbers are growing as the demand ever increases.

▪ Network capacity is being expanded to meet the growing demand for high bandwidth products.

▪ The new store replaces the current Manchester branch of Motorcycle City and is a response to growing demand.

▪ He said it would be necessary for the agricultural producing nations to use biotechnology and hormones to meet the growing demand.

▪ Encouraged by this growing demand, the Quality Shop strategists put together the rest of their grand plan.

increase

▪ This growth itself increases the demand for money.

▪ Sometimes the causes are external to you-oppressive managers, increased demands, or too little opportunity for autonomy.

▪ Recession and rising unemployment have increased welfare demands.

▪ This will increase the demand for sterling on the foreign exchange markets and hence cause an appreciation of the exchange rate.

▪ The network was upgraded several times over the last decade to accommodate the increasing demand.

▪ Some biological theories are sufficiently affected by increasing demands for social relevance to tackle social differences.

▪ Each of these factors has tended to increase the demand for physician servIces.

keep

▪ Every day, until we could not keep up with the demand, we would make a few extra loaves to sell.

▪ Translators are working hard to keep up with the demand.

▪ Many experts doubt that capital and technology can be created fast enough in poor countries to keep up with the demand.

▪ Oranges will produce more flowers and an increase in fruit yield, but only if irrigation can keep up with demand.

▪ And if there were, the gardener could not keep pace with the demands of such a place.

▪ That means keeping demand strong so there is an incentive for the new rich to keep their money in the country.

▪ The butcher starts mincing children to keep up with the demand.

make

▪ They made no demands and refused to negotiate.

▪ The cats a few years later made severe demands on her.

▪ This demand has to be made in conjunction with demands for greater control over public housing, by those who inhabit it.

▪ Indeed, we are not consciously aware that we make such demands on life.

▪ A simple change in the weather can make significant changes in demand on the gas supply system.

▪ It makes no similar demands on owners.

▪ Of course the additional work which such an outward-going policy requires will make demands upon the teacher's time.

▪ But the harm caused by a political culture that makes huge material demands while discouraging economic initiative is incalculable.

meet

▪ The point came where Garrett could no longer produce enough detectors to meet the demand without setting up his own production line.

▪ The president met that demand with his announcement Tuesday, the first full day of his second term.

▪ Some know how to live in such deserts, and meet their terrible demands.

▪ But if all goes well, it is projected to climb to 1 million a year to meet rising worldwide demand.

▪ Diabetes results when the insulin reserve no longer meets demand.

▪ Because the Yankees had no interest in meeting MacPhail's demand for five players or Sosa's desire for a contract extension.

▪ Mr Babangida and his predecessors have tried to meet competing ethnic demands by spreading power around regional governments in a federal system.

▪ The procedures are in place for the independent counselling service to run the self-help group and supply advocates to meet demand.

reduce

▪ Use of these properties could reduce the projected demand for new housing on greenfield sites.

▪ The apparent means of releasing resources from private uses is to reduce private demand for them.

▪ An increase in mortgage interest rates depresses the demand for home loans as individuals reduce their demand for new housing.

▪ To bridge the gap to replacement fertility, it will be necessary to reduce the demand for large families.

▪ Thus a higher wage rate increases the supply of hours of work, but reduces the demand for hours of work.

▪ Less government borrowing reduces the demand for funds, which in turn leads to lower rates.

▪ Real wage cuts, by reducing aggregate demand, raise the level of Keynesian unemployment.

▪ This will make bricks and tiles even more expensive, and in turn reduce demand.

respond

▪ His only major mistake lay in the way he responded to the demand for international films.

▪ Instead, they argue that gold is behaving more like a traditional commodity, responding to supply and demand forces.

▪ Moreover, system technology is capable of reducing the time needed to respond to changes in demand or to serve orders.

▪ Occasionally, the state responds positively to these demands.

▪ The Army Council faction has not yet responded to the demand.

▪ Economic growth favours some particular sector of industry, and technology responds to the demand.

▪ Capacity and other resource constraints which may limit the target's ability to respond to increases in demand.

▪ Male speaker With the Maestro and Montego we said we'd respond to customer demand.

satisfy

▪ The consequence was that very few Yugoslav enterprises were established mainly to satisfy export demand.

▪ This is obviously satisfied by linear demand.

▪ The extension of the informal conciliatory system will not satisfy the demand for an investigative system.

▪ To satisfy the demands of wealthier parishioners for more comfort during the often lengthy sermons, pews with cushions began to proliferate.

▪ With adequate funding and proper policy the book industry could achieve self sufficiency and satisfy national demand, the report says.

▪ But its use value is its power to satisfy consumer demand for some stimulant.

▪ Sometimes, alternative schemes may be able to satisfy some of these demands more effectively.

stimulate

▪ Great technical changes, stimulated by wartime demand, led to increased production.

▪ Growing concern for public safety and improvements in the quality of construction should continue to stimulate demand for construction and building inspectors.

▪ At the outset, emphasis was placed on stimulating industrial demand.

▪ This policy would be used to stimulate aggregate demand to reduce the unemployment caused by these structural changes.

▪ One obvious policy for the achievement of this objective is for government to stimulate aggregate demand by some means or other.

supply

▪ There is never enough good maiolica to supply the demand, and Christie's had anticipated strong prices.

▪ Instead, they argue that gold is behaving more like a traditional commodity, responding to supply and demand forces.

▪ Many species of bird were virtually wiped out in the early part of the century to supply the demand for decorative feathers.

▪ Incidentally, the possibility that supply and demand will both change in a gig-en period of time is not unlikely.

▪ Households supply labour and demand goods; firms supply goods and demand labour.

▪ Low wages come back to supply and demand.

▪ Households supply labour and demand goods; firms supply goods and demand labour.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be besieged with letters/demands/requests etc

elasticity of demand

▪ As in other cases, the deadweight welfare loss depends on the price elasticity of demand.

▪ As usual, marginal revenue equals the price times one minus one over the elasticity of demand.

▪ Certainly, there is a high elasticity of demand at the fish market where our Chef Troy shops.

▪ If preferences are of the S-D-S type, the elasticity of demand is a given constant.

▪ In calculating the size of deadweight burden triangles under monopoly, different economists have used different estimates of the elasticity of demand.

▪ Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded of a good to a change in the price of that good.

▪ The effect is similar to a change in income and depends upon the income elasticity of demand.

▪ The relationship between quantity demanded of a commodity and its price is normally measured by the price elasticity of demand.

get/take/demand etc your pound of flesh

▪ The Government gets its pound of flesh, doesn't it.

meet a need/demand/requirement/condition etc

▪ Booksellers are in the vanguard and many of them simply can not get enough books to meet demand.

▪ But, on the theory, to ask if it is true is just to ask if it meets a need.

▪ Compaq are accelerating production in an attempt to meet demand.

▪ Education, training and skills development is another way in which the government attempts to meet demands for labour.

▪ Then it meets requirements for his powerful living.

▪ There was something fishy about the way supply met demand in an investment bank.

▪ To meet demand, Cirrus is stepping up production.

▪ Under the present system the Central Electricity Generating Board is charged with ensuring there is enough power station capacity to meet demand.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ A demand from your boss that you babysit his children is clearly unreasonable.

▪ A list of the students' demands was presented to the dean of the law school.

▪ Some working moms worry about the conflicting demands of home and job.

▪ The government has refused the rebels' demand to release their leader from prison.

▪ The kidnappers made several demands in their telephone call to police.

▪ The union's demand for an 8% across-the-board increase is still under consideration.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ In short, there is a I 5, 000-bushel shortage of or excess demand for, corn.

▪ It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income.

▪ Kallay returned to his original demands for the release of comrades from prison, and the resignation of the Sierra Leone government.

▪ Recessions often start because the demand for credit falls.

▪ The desire is great because the demands for knowing in life are so great.

▪ This growth is necessary to mitigate the supply / demand imbalance and for the continued economic health of the region.

▪ Though land is theoretically very expensive there, the recession has cut the demand.

▪ With demand for short and medium term paper picking up, most issues registered gains of up to £3/4.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

▪ The project would be different from the kind of Al analysis I ordinarily do, but no more demanding.

▪ Is it permissible to vary assignments, to expect less from certain students while demanding more from others?

▪ Education Secretary John Patten believes the £1.4 million venture will raise standards by encouraging parents to demand more from schools.

▪ When my daughter seemed to lose interest in breastfeeding and demanded more solid food, I spent several days feeling depressed.

▪ That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours.

▪ None is more demanding than the increasing clamor for improved quality of care while concomitantly reducing costs.

▪ Moreover, a thorough understanding of the uses of technology may demand more or less understanding of theoretical science.

▪ My expectations of students have gotten much more demanding, and they have met them.

■ NOUN

action

▪ His control in these cases is such that he alone decides whether or not to sample, whether or not to demand remedial action.

▪ But at the session, the young men led by Bose and Nehru demanded action.

▪ He demanded action be taken at once.

▪ The Archdiocese of Los Angeles put Llanos on leave in 1994, after the first alleged victim demanded action.

▪ At this stage, the need to control war to prevent it becoming a tragic and self-defeating activity demanded strong action.

▪ This is a soul cleansing, carefully detailing the surrounding circumstances and the pressures that demanded that action be taken immediately.

▪ Sometimes the sheer scale of the horror may demand action.

▪ This demands balancing action and patience in moving teams up the performance curve.

apology

▪ The commander wrote to the editor, demanding an apology.

▪ In Iowa Friday, Forbes challenged the ad as untrue and demanded an apology from the Dole campaign.

attention

▪ Every day, and sometimes hourly, another batch of papers reaches the manager demanding his attention.

▪ It was true that a major problem had just cropped up which demanded immediate attention.

▪ They demanded attention which it was not humanly possible to give.

▪ Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime.

▪ The game demands a lot of attention and plenty of time in the manual and help screens.

▪ Nevertheless, it is possible to identify a number of matters which are likely to demand much attention in the early nineties.

▪ To tell your problems is to demand attention.

change

▪ In the beginning they demanded small change, but now they ask me for £2 or £3 every time they see me.

▪ So they constantly demanded changes in the structure of government in the district in order to distribute power-and taxes-more equably.

▪ As consumers we can demand a change in the manufacture of products that are threatening our health now.

▪ The young people in the plant were demanding some kind of change.

▪ He demanded changes to the law so repeat offences could be taken into account when passing sentence.

▪ These new ideas demand radical changes in the design of the entire business process.

▪ First, the scale of the New Zealand landscape has demanded important changes.

▪ The cause of a change in the quantity demanded is a change in the price of the product under consideration.

consumer

▪ As consumers we can demand a change in the manufacture of products that are threatening our health now.

▪ The medicine-cabinet market also has been responsive to changing lifestyles and consumer demands.

▪ But consumers are starting to demand more variety.

end

▪ These nations are demanding an end to all trade in ivory.

▪ Suspecting the worst, editorial boards and other high-minded folks demand an end to soft money.

▪ They demanded an end to the use of racism by management to divide workers.

▪ Business demanded an end to controls on production and prices.

▪ In 1958 Oji Paper, one of the biggest paper-makers, demanded an end to the closed shop.

▪ Pittston also demanded an end to the full health-care plan, and sought cuts in health and pension benefits for retired miners.

government

▪ They are also demanding that the government guarantee their security.

▪ The peasants planned to join a demonstration to demand that the state government supply fertilizer and other assistance for their poor farms.

▪ It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions.

▪ It also demanded that the Government immediately underwrite the total costs facing islanders and the local authority.

▪ Now many of the rest of us are demanding that the government give us better security.

▪ An increase in the number of locally-issued debt could push yields higher by crowding out demand for government bonds.

justice

▪ For certain crimes, justice demands the ultimate punishment.

▪ Justice requires atonement, and justice demands reform.

money

▪ Hijras venture out into the streets to demand money from whoever seems affluent enough.

▪ Panhandlers always demanding money so they can sustain their lifestyles.

▪ It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions.

▪ With Income and hence the transactions demand for money rising less than wealth, one would expect time deposits to rise.

▪ The two men demanded money from Mr McErlean but he refused.

▪ Crane arrested the unarmed man, who is accused of giving a teller a note demanding money.

▪ This would reduce aggregate demand directly and thus reduce the transactions demand for money.

▪ Mutual funds sometimes raise cash for liquidity, worried the number of customers demanding their money back might rise suddenly.

price

▪ By balancing the quantities supplied and demanded, prices ensure that the final quantity of goods being consumed can be produced.

▪ One reason: Cellular services that buy phones from Motorola have demanded ever-lower prices for their bulk orders.

▪ But cell doors had become fashionable in Punta del Este and the owner of the shop demanded an impossible price.

▪ Consumers are pushing retailers to the wall, demanding lower prices, better quality, a large selection of in-season goods.

▪ Maybe what I can't help bringing into some of my work is that all this beauty on Koraloona demands a price.

▪ More of a particular resource will be demanded at a low price than at a high price.

▪ But if investors also believed share prices would fall, they would demand a higher price for their money.

▪ It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices, all other things being equal.

quantity

▪ By balancing the quantities supplied and demanded, prices ensure that the final quantity of goods being consumed can be produced.

▪ Producing appreciable quantities demands somewhat laborious and delicate manipulations of yeast.

▪ The relationship between quantity demanded of a commodity and its price is normally measured by the price elasticity of demand.

▪ Any price below the equilibrium price will entail a shortage; that is, quantity demanded will exceed quantity supplied.

▪ Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded of a good to a change in the price of that good.

▪ It slopes downward and to the right because the relationship it portrays between price and quantity demanded is negative or inverse.

▪ In such circumstances, it is more appropriate to treat the quantity demanded as the total expenditure on the skiing trip.

▪ Or, alternatively, other things being equal, as price increases, the corresponding quantity demanded falls.

ransom

▪ The letters were demanded as ransom.

▪ We are used to evil men demanding a ransom before their victim can be released.

▪ Sams has pleaded guilty to kidnapping Stephanie, unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding a £175,000 ransom.

▪ The unidentified gunmen have demanded a £1.2m ransom, he said.

▪ Although they said they would demand a ransom of $ 5m for each man, they never did.

▪ Within hours the kid napper demanded a ransom of £175,000 from estate agents Shipways.

release

▪ News of the arrests prompted demonstrations demanding the leaders' release in the Basque towns of San Sebastian and Ordizia.

▪ Local sheriffs have been bombarded with mail and phone calls from his supporters demanding his release.

▪ Thousands ringed the court building to demand the release of Mr Czarnogursky.

▪ In April 1649 several hundred of them besieged Parliament, demanding the release of the Leveller leaders from prison.

▪ She remained in jail for sixteen months while a massive international campaign demanded her release.

▪ A huge amount of mail poured into Rough Trade's offices demanding some form of release of the legendary Smiths radio sessions.

resignation

▪ They also demanded the resignation of Kabardino-Balkaria's President, Valery Kokov, who had introduced the state of emergency.

▪ Bao Dai, isolated and confused in his palace in Hue, had received a message from the Vietminh demanding his resignation.

▪ Opposition groups met on March 23 and demanded the President's resignation.

▪ On Dec. 21 over 20,000 protested in Bucharest demanding the resignation of Iliescu and the government.

▪ Izvestiya of June 18 reported that the Supreme Soviet was being picketed by protesters demanding the government's resignation and early elections.

▪ Tens of thousands of protesters were marching toward the presidential palace to demand his immediate resignation.

▪ Instead, the pitch was taken over by massed Southend fans demanding the resignation of chairman Vic Jobson.

▪ As his more vocal opponents began to demand his resignation, Wahid insisted he still had Megawati's support.

return

▪ Soldier's parents demand the return of his body.

▪ A Prussian soldier spotted them and demanded the return of their booty.

▪ Clothiers in Baintree and Barking followed suit and demanded the return of thrums from their weavers.

▪ By the 1990s, large and institutional investors had abandoned the search for security and demanded instead fat returns on investments.

▪ Interestingly, it is the right that now demands the return of narrative.

▪ A largely black protest march was held here recently to demand the return of safe streets.

▪ This it did by demanding a return to the family and Victorian values.

▪ At the same time, investors are demanding a higher return to account for the added risk that patients may live longer.

supply

▪ Problems would seem to exist on both the supply and demand side of the labour market for designers.

▪ Suppose first that supply and demand both increase.

▪ What factors would we expect to cause changes in the supply and demand for bills?

▪ Fifth, customer-driven systems waste less, because they mash supply to demand.

▪ Deep tax cuts enacted in 1981, as the supply siders had demanded, only produced soaring federal deficits.

▪ Two cases are possible when it is supposed that supply and demand change in opposite directions.