I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a petition calling for sth/demanding sth
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A petition calling for an inquiry was signed by 15,118 people.
ask for/demand an explanation
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When I asked for an explanation, the people at the office said they didn't know.
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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 )
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The union is calling for an end to discrimination.
conflicting demands (= things that demand your attention )
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the conflicting demands of work and family life
consumer demand (= the demand for things to buy )
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Consumer demand decreased as a result of the recession.
contradictory messages/statements/demands etc
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The public is being fed contradictory messages about the economy.
customer demand (= the amount of something customers want to buy or use )
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It’s important to respond quickly to changing customer demand.
demand a halt to sth (= firmly ask for something to stop )
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Irish farmers demanded a halt to imports of British cattle.
demand a right (= ask for it firmly )
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We demand the same rights that other European workers enjoy.
demand an apology
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China continued to demand a full apology from the US.
demand compensation (= ask for it in an angry way )
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Political prisoners are demanding financial compensation.
demand equality (= ask for it firmly because it is your right )
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She marched alongside her mother, demanding equality for women.
demand sb's resignation (= ask for it forcefully )
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His political opponents demanded his resignation.
demand/call for action (= ask forcefully )
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Voters are demanding tougher action on gun crime.
demand/expect obedience
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Parents should not demand unquestioning obedience from their children.
demanding justice
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His people came to him demanding justice .
demanding money with menaces
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He was charged with demanding money with menaces.
demanding...ransom
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The kidnappers were demanding a ransom of $250,000.
domestic demand (= the amount of a product that people want to buy in a country )
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Exports fell by 0.5 percent while domestic demand grew.
electricity demand (= the amount of electricity that is needed )
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There has been a dramatic growth in electricity demand.
exacting standards/demands/requirements etc
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He could never live up to his father’s exacting standards.
fill a need/demand
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Volunteers fill a real need for teachers in the Somali Republic.
final demand British English (= the last bill you receive for money you owe before court action is taken against you )
impossible demands
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She was growing tired of the company’s impossible demands.
insatiable appetite/desire/demand etc (for sth)
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his insatiable appetite for power
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our insatiable thirst for knowledge
law of supply and demand
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the law of supply and demand
peak demand
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periods of peak demand for electricity
popular demand
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She will be performing here again next month, by popular demand.
ransom demand/note
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There has still been no ransom demand.
satisfy a demand
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The company was unable to satisfy demand for the product.
sth requires/demands (a) commitment
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Nursing as a profession demands genuine commitment.
sth requires/demands concentration formal
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Writing an exam requires great concentration.
stimulate growth/demand/the economy etc
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the President’s plan to stimulate economic growth
supply and demand
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the law of supply and demand
the demand for energy
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The demand for energy in developing countries will continue to grow.
unreasonable demands
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Don’t let your boss make unreasonable demands on you.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aggregate
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This intermediate variable then affects aggregate demand .
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In this sense the more predictable aggregate demand is, the more efficient the economy is.
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How changes in money supply affect aggregate demand is a highly controversial issue.
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As a consequence the equilibrium level of aggregate demand will fall.
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What is the relationship between money supply and aggregate demand ?
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Thus a rise in the price level leads to a fall in the equilibrium level of aggregate demand .
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It may therefore produce greater uncertainty about aggregate demand .
domestic
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Exports fell by 0.5 percent while domestic demand , fuelled by annual tax rebates, grew by 0.8 percent in real terms.
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Yet, although domestic demand is weak, real interest rates remain high because prices are falling.
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Quite simply, domestic policy performance was not sufficiently competitive to match a high level of domestic demand .
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Although the economy continued to grow, that growth was being led by a rapidly increasing domestic demand for consumer items.
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The danger is that it will get worse as recovery brings increased domestic demand .
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Monetary policy is now geared to the exchange rate, not to domestic demand .
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Faced with growing domestic demand , further tree growing seems desirable, offering ample scope for the development of sylvopastoral systems.
great
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This led to an increase in urban employment opportunities and the expanding workforce gave rise to a greater demand for food.
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A company representative said they had not anticipated the great demand for Metrodin.
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Workplace 2000 will undoubtedly place greater demands on workers for performance.
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The latter group had the most difficulties and the greatest number of demands from the children.
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As he re-members, it was in great demand .
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Iznik pottery of the sixteenth century was again in great demand .
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Any computer-induced effects on employment may be offset, however, by a greater demand for information and analysis.
growing
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Expansion in output was fuelled by growing external demand and generally expansive domestic economic policies.
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The new products are part of a major SunConnect initiative to address the growing demand for tightly interconnected LANs and WANs.
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In fact the growing demand for immediate emancipation had captured organised antislavery at the national level by the spring of 1831.
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Pavilions of Splendour is the brainchild of Gwyn Headley who says the idea was born from a growing demand for unusual properties.
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But there is a growing demand for organic dairy, meat and egg products.
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College Principal Clive Brain says there's a growing demand for technological education and he's expecting large numbers of applicants.
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In turn the rural regions become much more productive as farmers appreciate the ever-present and growing demand for food from the urbanites.
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In addition, there is a growing demand for language courses coupled with a shortage of trained language teachers.
heavy
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Cattle in great demand selling to 165.5. Heavy lambs in demand.
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Or the heavy demands of professional careers.
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With the singular exception of property stocks, all sectors benefited from heavy demand , almost all leading shares sporting double-figure gains.
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Public service makes heavy demands on a man.
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There are heavy demands on people's time these days and a lot of rival attractions.
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Games that placed heavy demands on video and processor were never available for Windows.
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Movie magic can be heavy in its demands .
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It is not surprising, therefore, that old people make fairly heavy demands on medical care.
high
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He is confident the event should prove popular and has ordered more beer to meet the expected high demand .
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In the world of computer hotlines, good techs are in high demand .
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This produces in some islands higher than average demand and in others lower than average demand.
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Certainly, there is a high elasticity of demand at the fish market where our Chef Troy shops.
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The higher the demand and the lower the discount the cheaper bill finance will be.
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With high demand and continuing short supply, Schofield said vintners are resorting to other measures.
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Another is to transport coal slurry by pipeline from mines to power stations situated in areas of high electricity demand .
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It would also become clear which of the 70 pots of money were in high demand and which were irrelevant.
huge
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They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.
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And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.
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What we're experiencing now is a huge upsurge in demand for everything we do.
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A huge demands for apartments pushed vacancy rates down to the 1 to 2 percent level.
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Inevitably this level of prescription will produce a huge demand for information.
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The spread of multimedia is bound to create a huge demand for peripheral equipment of all sorts.
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But the harm caused by a political culture that makes huge material demands while discouraging economic initiative is incalculable.
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There is a huge pent-up demand for new cars, he said.
increased
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By extrapolation it is concluded that today's rising income levels generate increased demand for services compared with manufactured goods.
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He reckons it will disappear by the end of 1993, so increased demand will then spill over into higher prices.
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A stagnant economy heaps increased demands on government as more people are in need.
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Individuals tended to invest more, with an increased demand for certificates of deposit.
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Many older mains also required reinforcement to raise their capacity to match increased demand .
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A study of the emergence of the welfare state highlights the increased demands and responsibilities borne by government.
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In the 1880s, the expanding population of Liverpool led to an increased demand for water.
low
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This produces in some islands higher than average demand and in others lower than average demand.
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Sluggish economic growth means interest rates will stay low amid tepid demand for loans and a reduced risk of accelerating inflation.
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The smaller the proportion, the lower the demand and obviously the higher is velocity.
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User fees have two advantages: they raise money, and they lower demand for public services.
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The causes of absolute and relative low demand vary, suggesting that different responses are appropriate.
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At times of low demand , electricity can be used to pump water from a low reservoir to a high reservoir.
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High-cost oversupply has been compounded by extremely low demand .
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Iron oxide pigments sold well for paints, but continued to suffer low demand for building materials.
popular
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But there is no popular demand , and no need, to overturn our institutions in a fit of impatience.
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Both men created through their activities a popular demand for access to the very wilderness they sought to protect.
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As in many other countries, popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990.
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The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality.
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And now, due to popular demand , we can announce the arrival of the Megadisk!
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It was a thing that was created by popular demand .
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These colourful yarns, known as heather effects, are already popular and the demand is expected to increase.
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It is popular , in demand , and cheap.
strong
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Dallas: Demand was up for business services, with strong demand from technology, real estate, and finance companies.
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Analysts say the increase may stick for a few months because of strong demand .
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Managers have been resistant, but there has been a strong latent demand for telework.
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But after three relatively small grape harvests in a row coupled with continuing strong consumer demand , grape prices continue to increase.
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New government reports released Thursday showed fewer claims for unemployment benefits and strong demand for new homes.
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Against the backdrop of that strong demand are crop problems, which seem to be occurring world-wide.
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consumer
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Advertising strategy will be directed away from product-led treatments to focus on consumer demands .
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It is still rationalized by an elaborate and traditional, even if meretricious, theory of consumer demand .
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Manufacturing output jumped 0.8 percent between December and January, confirming the increase in consumer demand since the start of the year.
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The important role of consumer demand in determining the types and quantities of goods produced must be emphasized.
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They also affect the pattern of consumer demand .
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Elasticity applies not just to consumer demand but to product supply as well.
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Culture is generally regarded as a key determinant of consumer demand and purchase pattern.
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But after three relatively small grape harvests in a row coupled with continuing strong consumer demand , grape prices continue to increase.
curve
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Its falling demand for bills is shown by an upward shift of the demand curve to.
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That is. factors which cause supply to shift are distinct from factors which shift the demand curve .
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Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water.
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Why does a demand curve slope downward?
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If the demand curve shifts very much, and if it is inelastic, then monetary control will be very difficult.
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What happens to the demand curve when each of these determinants changes?
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Banks will merely supply whatever is demanded: in this case the supply curve is the same as the demand curve.
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Thus a rise in real government expenditure shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right.
energy
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Lee Schipper, an energy demand analyst from the Lawrence Laboratory in California, agreed.
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The environmental impact of humans' future energy demand needs further examination.
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This stood at 21% of energy demand in 1973 and was at only 22% in 1983.
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There will also be an increase in the proportion of total energy demand accounted for by coal.
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Coal consumption will fall from 13% of energy demand in 1983 to 11% in the year 2000.
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Even electricity demand , which has historically grown faster than total energy demand, decreases in two of the five scenarios.
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According to Johansson, government planners typically assess how energy demand has grown alongside economic growth.
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Between 1979 and 1981 energy demand fell by 12%.
market
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As a producer and processor of organic products, Dirk is a successful and independent supplier of the current market demand .
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The rate was freed to float in line with market demand today.
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Higher inflation would enable old capital to stay competitive, but profitable capacity would then exceed market demand .
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As new firms enter industry X, the market supply of X will increase relative to the market demand .
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The religious festival, which began last Monday undoubtedly increases market demand for cast ewes.
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What are the major nonprice determinants of market demand ?
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After 1955 an increasing amount of inner-ring suburbanization was produced by developer builders in response to market demand .
peak
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And during peak demand , discounts can vanish.
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Electricity companies use it to switch off certain loads, such as water heaters, at times of peak demand .
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It can protect your equipment from hazardous brownouts that occur when electric companies reduce voltage during periods of peak demand .
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Each household's peak demand was not measured directly.
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The demand for electricity is uneven throughout the day, involving certain periods of peak demand.
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To save the most money, consumers would have to change their habits to shift the times of peak demand .
■ VERB
cope
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In a year of recession, Land Rover is taking on more staff and increasing production to cope with the worldwide demand .
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In addition to their own emotional turmoil, parents must cope with the demands and expectations of those around them.
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My wife would need all the virtues in the world to cope with the demands of my life.
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If they have the resources and the foresight to cope with demand , you won't notice.
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However, the so-called Street v Mountford test fails to cope with the demands placed upon it by its own social context.
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Parents often need help in anticipating how to cope with demands outside sweet shops or in supermarkets.
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Could a Council be established which could cope with the demands made upon it by a multitude of members?
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For a long time she had been out of control, unable to cope with the everyday demands of her new royal role.
create
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And it is the relatively rich, in small towns and on the fringes of big cities, who create this demand .
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And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.
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The driving force of a flourishing society is individual acquisitiveness which creates demands that boost trade and increase the general wealth.
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Merck is not just creating demand for the equipment, it can actually produce business.
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Such concerns can create new and significant demands upon the staff management skills of new clinical directors.
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Now we have to create demand .
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This creates a demand for oxygen, so the heart works a little harder, and the lungs are fully used.
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Demonstration projects promote awareness of new technology to consumers, with a view towards creating a demand for the product.
grow
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There is growing demand for the nets, and Haji is confident he can meet it.
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Driving the change is consumers' growing demand for bargain-basement prices.
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The numbers are growing as the demand ever increases.
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Network capacity is being expanded to meet the growing demand for high bandwidth products.
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The new store replaces the current Manchester branch of Motorcycle City and is a response to growing demand .
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He said it would be necessary for the agricultural producing nations to use biotechnology and hormones to meet the growing demand .
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Encouraged by this growing demand , the Quality Shop strategists put together the rest of their grand plan.
increase
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This growth itself increases the demand for money.
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Sometimes the causes are external to you-oppressive managers, increased demands , or too little opportunity for autonomy.
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Recession and rising unemployment have increased welfare demands .
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This will increase the demand for sterling on the foreign exchange markets and hence cause an appreciation of the exchange rate.
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The network was upgraded several times over the last decade to accommodate the increasing demand .
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Some biological theories are sufficiently affected by increasing demands for social relevance to tackle social differences.
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Each of these factors has tended to increase the demand for physician servIces.
keep
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Every day, until we could not keep up with the demand , we would make a few extra loaves to sell.
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Translators are working hard to keep up with the demand .
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Many experts doubt that capital and technology can be created fast enough in poor countries to keep up with the demand .
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Oranges will produce more flowers and an increase in fruit yield, but only if irrigation can keep up with demand .
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And if there were, the gardener could not keep pace with the demands of such a place.
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That means keeping demand strong so there is an incentive for the new rich to keep their money in the country.
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The butcher starts mincing children to keep up with the demand .
make
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They made no demands and refused to negotiate.
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The cats a few years later made severe demands on her.
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This demand has to be made in conjunction with demands for greater control over public housing, by those who inhabit it.
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Indeed, we are not consciously aware that we make such demands on life.
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A simple change in the weather can make significant changes in demand on the gas supply system.
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It makes no similar demands on owners.
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Of course the additional work which such an outward-going policy requires will make demands upon the teacher's time.
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But the harm caused by a political culture that makes huge material demands while discouraging economic initiative is incalculable.
meet
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The point came where Garrett could no longer produce enough detectors to meet the demand without setting up his own production line.
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The president met that demand with his announcement Tuesday, the first full day of his second term.
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Some know how to live in such deserts, and meet their terrible demands .
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But if all goes well, it is projected to climb to 1 million a year to meet rising worldwide demand .
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Diabetes results when the insulin reserve no longer meets demand .
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Because the Yankees had no interest in meeting MacPhail's demand for five players or Sosa's desire for a contract extension.
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Mr Babangida and his predecessors have tried to meet competing ethnic demands by spreading power around regional governments in a federal system.
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The procedures are in place for the independent counselling service to run the self-help group and supply advocates to meet demand .
reduce
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Use of these properties could reduce the projected demand for new housing on greenfield sites.
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The apparent means of releasing resources from private uses is to reduce private demand for them.
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An increase in mortgage interest rates depresses the demand for home loans as individuals reduce their demand for new housing.
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To bridge the gap to replacement fertility, it will be necessary to reduce the demand for large families.
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Thus a higher wage rate increases the supply of hours of work, but reduces the demand for hours of work.
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Less government borrowing reduces the demand for funds, which in turn leads to lower rates.
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Real wage cuts, by reducing aggregate demand , raise the level of Keynesian unemployment.
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This will make bricks and tiles even more expensive, and in turn reduce demand .
respond
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His only major mistake lay in the way he responded to the demand for international films.
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Instead, they argue that gold is behaving more like a traditional commodity, responding to supply and demand forces.
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Moreover, system technology is capable of reducing the time needed to respond to changes in demand or to serve orders.
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Occasionally, the state responds positively to these demands .
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The Army Council faction has not yet responded to the demand .
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Economic growth favours some particular sector of industry, and technology responds to the demand .
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Capacity and other resource constraints which may limit the target's ability to respond to increases in demand .
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Male speaker With the Maestro and Montego we said we'd respond to customer demand .
satisfy
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The consequence was that very few Yugoslav enterprises were established mainly to satisfy export demand .
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This is obviously satisfied by linear demand .
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The extension of the informal conciliatory system will not satisfy the demand for an investigative system.
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To satisfy the demands of wealthier parishioners for more comfort during the often lengthy sermons, pews with cushions began to proliferate.
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With adequate funding and proper policy the book industry could achieve self sufficiency and satisfy national demand , the report says.
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But its use value is its power to satisfy consumer demand for some stimulant.
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Sometimes, alternative schemes may be able to satisfy some of these demands more effectively.
stimulate
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Great technical changes, stimulated by wartime demand , led to increased production.
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Growing concern for public safety and improvements in the quality of construction should continue to stimulate demand for construction and building inspectors.
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At the outset, emphasis was placed on stimulating industrial demand .
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This policy would be used to stimulate aggregate demand to reduce the unemployment caused by these structural changes.
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One obvious policy for the achievement of this objective is for government to stimulate aggregate demand by some means or other.
supply
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There is never enough good maiolica to supply the demand , and Christie's had anticipated strong prices.
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Instead, they argue that gold is behaving more like a traditional commodity, responding to supply and demand forces.
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Many species of bird were virtually wiped out in the early part of the century to supply the demand for decorative feathers.
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Incidentally, the possibility that supply and demand will both change in a gig-en period of time is not unlikely.
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Households supply labour and demand goods; firms supply goods and demand labour.
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Low wages come back to supply and demand .
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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
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As in other cases, the deadweight welfare loss depends on the price elasticity of demand.
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As usual, marginal revenue equals the price times one minus one over the elasticity of demand.
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Certainly, there is a high elasticity of demand at the fish market where our Chef Troy shops.
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If preferences are of the S-D-S type, the elasticity of demand is a given constant.
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In calculating the size of deadweight burden triangles under monopoly, different economists have used different estimates of the elasticity of demand.
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Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded of a good to a change in the price of that good.
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The effect is similar to a change in income and depends upon the income elasticity of demand.
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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
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The Government gets its pound of flesh, doesn't it.
meet a need/demand/requirement/condition etc
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Booksellers are in the vanguard and many of them simply can not get enough books to meet demand.
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But, on the theory, to ask if it is true is just to ask if it meets a need.
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Compaq are accelerating production in an attempt to meet demand.
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Education, training and skills development is another way in which the government attempts to meet demands for labour.
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Then it meets requirements for his powerful living.
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There was something fishy about the way supply met demand in an investment bank.
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To meet demand, Cirrus is stepping up production.
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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
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A demand from your boss that you babysit his children is clearly unreasonable.
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A list of the students' demands was presented to the dean of the law school.
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Some working moms worry about the conflicting demands of home and job.
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The government has refused the rebels' demand to release their leader from prison.
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The kidnappers made several demands in their telephone call to police.
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The union's demand for an 8% across-the-board increase is still under consideration.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In short, there is a I 5, 000-bushel shortage of or excess demand for, corn.
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It follows that their demand for bank deposits is also growing at twice the rate of growth of nominal income.
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Kallay returned to his original demands for the release of comrades from prison, and the resignation of the Sierra Leone government.
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Recessions often start because the demand for credit falls.
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The desire is great because the demands for knowing in life are so great.
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This growth is necessary to mitigate the supply / demand imbalance and for the continued economic health of the region.
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Though land is theoretically very expensive there, the recession has cut the demand .
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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
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The project would be different from the kind of Al analysis I ordinarily do, but no more demanding .
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Is it permissible to vary assignments, to expect less from certain students while demanding more from others?
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Education Secretary John Patten believes the £1.4 million venture will raise standards by encouraging parents to demand more from schools.
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When my daughter seemed to lose interest in breastfeeding and demanded more solid food, I spent several days feeling depressed.
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That behaviour demanded more suffering than just a few uncomfortable hours.
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None is more demanding than the increasing clamor for improved quality of care while concomitantly reducing costs.
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Moreover, a thorough understanding of the uses of technology may demand more or less understanding of theoretical science.
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My expectations of students have gotten much more demanding , and they have met them.
■ NOUN
action
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His control in these cases is such that he alone decides whether or not to sample, whether or not to demand remedial action .
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But at the session, the young men led by Bose and Nehru demanded action .
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He demanded action be taken at once.
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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles put Llanos on leave in 1994, after the first alleged victim demanded action .
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At this stage, the need to control war to prevent it becoming a tragic and self-defeating activity demanded strong action .
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This is a soul cleansing, carefully detailing the surrounding circumstances and the pressures that demanded that action be taken immediately.
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Sometimes the sheer scale of the horror may demand action .
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This demands balancing action and patience in moving teams up the performance curve.
apology
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The commander wrote to the editor, demanding an apology .
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In Iowa Friday, Forbes challenged the ad as untrue and demanded an apology from the Dole campaign.
attention
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Every day, and sometimes hourly, another batch of papers reaches the manager demanding his attention .
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It was true that a major problem had just cropped up which demanded immediate attention .
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They demanded attention which it was not humanly possible to give.
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Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime.
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The game demands a lot of attention and plenty of time in the manual and help screens.
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Nevertheless, it is possible to identify a number of matters which are likely to demand much attention in the early nineties.
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To tell your problems is to demand attention .
change
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In the beginning they demanded small change , but now they ask me for £2 or £3 every time they see me.
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So they constantly demanded changes in the structure of government in the district in order to distribute power-and taxes-more equably.
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As consumers we can demand a change in the manufacture of products that are threatening our health now.
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The young people in the plant were demanding some kind of change .
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He demanded changes to the law so repeat offences could be taken into account when passing sentence.
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These new ideas demand radical changes in the design of the entire business process.
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First, the scale of the New Zealand landscape has demanded important changes .
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The cause of a change in the quantity demanded is a change in the price of the product under consideration.
consumer
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As consumers we can demand a change in the manufacture of products that are threatening our health now.
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The medicine-cabinet market also has been responsive to changing lifestyles and consumer demands .
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But consumers are starting to demand more variety.
end
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These nations are demanding an end to all trade in ivory.
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Suspecting the worst, editorial boards and other high-minded folks demand an end to soft money.
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They demanded an end to the use of racism by management to divide workers.
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Business demanded an end to controls on production and prices.
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In 1958 Oji Paper, one of the biggest paper-makers, demanded an end to the closed shop.
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Pittston also demanded an end to the full health-care plan, and sought cuts in health and pension benefits for retired miners.
government
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They are also demanding that the government guarantee their security.
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The peasants planned to join a demonstration to demand that the state government supply fertilizer and other assistance for their poor farms.
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It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions.
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It also demanded that the Government immediately underwrite the total costs facing islanders and the local authority.
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Now many of the rest of us are demanding that the government give us better security.
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An increase in the number of locally-issued debt could push yields higher by crowding out demand for government bonds.
justice
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For certain crimes, justice demands the ultimate punishment.
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Justice requires atonement, and justice demands reform.
money
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Hijras venture out into the streets to demand money from whoever seems affluent enough.
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Panhandlers always demanding money so they can sustain their lifestyles.
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It was easier for them to demand money from the Government than argue plans past their local unions.
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With Income and hence the transactions demand for money rising less than wealth, one would expect time deposits to rise.
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The two men demanded money from Mr McErlean but he refused.
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Crane arrested the unarmed man, who is accused of giving a teller a note demanding money .
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This would reduce aggregate demand directly and thus reduce the transactions demand for money .
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Mutual funds sometimes raise cash for liquidity, worried the number of customers demanding their money back might rise suddenly.
price
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By balancing the quantities supplied and demanded , prices ensure that the final quantity of goods being consumed can be produced.
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One reason: Cellular services that buy phones from Motorola have demanded ever-lower prices for their bulk orders.
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But cell doors had become fashionable in Punta del Este and the owner of the shop demanded an impossible price .
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Consumers are pushing retailers to the wall, demanding lower prices , better quality, a large selection of in-season goods.
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Maybe what I can't help bringing into some of my work is that all this beauty on Koraloona demands a price .
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More of a particular resource will be demanded at a low price than at a high price.
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But if investors also believed share prices would fall, they would demand a higher price for their money.
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It shows the quantities of a product which will be demanded at various prices , all other things being equal.
quantity
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By balancing the quantities supplied and demanded , prices ensure that the final quantity of goods being consumed can be produced.
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Producing appreciable quantities demands somewhat laborious and delicate manipulations of yeast.
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The relationship between quantity demanded of a commodity and its price is normally measured by the price elasticity of demand.
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Any price below the equilibrium price will entail a shortage; that is, quantity demanded will exceed quantity supplied.
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Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded of a good to a change in the price of that good.
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It slopes downward and to the right because the relationship it portrays between price and quantity demanded is negative or inverse.
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In such circumstances, it is more appropriate to treat the quantity demanded as the total expenditure on the skiing trip.
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Or, alternatively, other things being equal, as price increases, the corresponding quantity demanded falls.
ransom
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The letters were demanded as ransom .
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We are used to evil men demanding a ransom before their victim can be released.
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Sams has pleaded guilty to kidnapping Stephanie, unlawfully imprisoning her and demanding a £175,000 ransom .
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The unidentified gunmen have demanded a £1.2m ransom , he said.
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Although they said they would demand a ransom of $ 5m for each man, they never did.
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Within hours the kid napper demanded a ransom of £175,000 from estate agents Shipways.
release
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News of the arrests prompted demonstrations demanding the leaders' release in the Basque towns of San Sebastian and Ordizia.
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Local sheriffs have been bombarded with mail and phone calls from his supporters demanding his release .
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Thousands ringed the court building to demand the release of Mr Czarnogursky.
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In April 1649 several hundred of them besieged Parliament, demanding the release of the Leveller leaders from prison.
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She remained in jail for sixteen months while a massive international campaign demanded her release .
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A huge amount of mail poured into Rough Trade's offices demanding some form of release of the legendary Smiths radio sessions.
resignation
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They also demanded the resignation of Kabardino-Balkaria's President, Valery Kokov, who had introduced the state of emergency.
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Bao Dai, isolated and confused in his palace in Hue, had received a message from the Vietminh demanding his resignation .
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Opposition groups met on March 23 and demanded the President's resignation .
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On Dec. 21 over 20,000 protested in Bucharest demanding the resignation of Iliescu and the government.
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Izvestiya of June 18 reported that the Supreme Soviet was being picketed by protesters demanding the government's resignation and early elections.
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Tens of thousands of protesters were marching toward the presidential palace to demand his immediate resignation .
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Instead, the pitch was taken over by massed Southend fans demanding the resignation of chairman Vic Jobson.
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As his more vocal opponents began to demand his resignation , Wahid insisted he still had Megawati's support.
return
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Soldier's parents demand the return of his body.
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A Prussian soldier spotted them and demanded the return of their booty.
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Clothiers in Baintree and Barking followed suit and demanded the return of thrums from their weavers.
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By the 1990s, large and institutional investors had abandoned the search for security and demanded instead fat returns on investments.
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Interestingly, it is the right that now demands the return of narrative.
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A largely black protest march was held here recently to demand the return of safe streets.
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This it did by demanding a return to the family and Victorian values.
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At the same time, investors are demanding a higher return to account for the added risk that patients may live longer.
supply
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Problems would seem to exist on both the supply and demand side of the labour market for designers.
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Suppose first that supply and demand both increase.
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What factors would we expect to cause changes in the supply and demand for bills?
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Fifth, customer-driven systems waste less, because they mash supply to demand .
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Deep tax cuts enacted in 1981, as the supply siders had demanded , only produced soaring federal deficits.
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Two cases are possible when it is supposed that supply and demand change in opposite directions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
elasticity of demand
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As in other cases, the deadweight welfare loss depends on the price elasticity of demand.
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As usual, marginal revenue equals the price times one minus one over the elasticity of demand.
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Certainly, there is a high elasticity of demand at the fish market where our Chef Troy shops.
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If preferences are of the S-D-S type, the elasticity of demand is a given constant.
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In calculating the size of deadweight burden triangles under monopoly, different economists have used different estimates of the elasticity of demand.
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Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded of a good to a change in the price of that good.
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The effect is similar to a change in income and depends upon the income elasticity of demand.
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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
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The Government gets its pound of flesh, doesn't it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Did you do this?" Kathryn demanded angrily.
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Daley demanded to know why the police had not been called in to stop the rioting.
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How dare you say that! I demand an apology.
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I demand an explanation for your appalling behaviour.
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I caught Alice going through my letters and demanded an immediate explanation.
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Just go to the dry cleaners, show them the dress, and demand that they pay for the damage.
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Parents are demanding greater control over their children's education.
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Realizing that her husband had deceived her, she demanded that he tell her the whole truth.
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State health inspectors have demanded that the city act immediately to clean the water supply.
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The baby demands most of Cindy's time.
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The chief demanded a thorough investigation into the murder.
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The guards demanded to see her I.D. before they allowed her in the building.
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The laboratory was surrounded by protesters demanding an end to the animal experiments.
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The police officer made Neil get out of the car and demanded to see his driver's licence.
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The President demanded the release of the hostages.
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You should demand that they finish the job now, not some time in August.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both exchange and mutuality however, demand additional discipline for success.
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One of the men brandished a jagged-edge Bowie knife and demanded that 25-year-old Julie handed over her handbag containing £95.
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Stopped controversially in their first battle, Razor demanded a second go at Tyson.
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The evidence demanded a long time for Earth processes to have had any effect in carving mountains and accumulating sediment.
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The receivers are informed that they are not allowed to ask questions nor to demand repeats of words or phrases.
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Waster and the beggars scorned poor food and demanded better, fine bread instead of that with beans in it and well-cooked meat.