demand
Example Sentences
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Eventually, proper panic would set in, at which point demand for safety would almost certainly overwhelm concern about inflation and push down Treasury yields.
But given the rise in obesity levels in Kenya, the demand for quick ways to lose weight will not go away.
From BBC
"People make demands on the government the whole time," says Blair.
From BBC
Standard computational techniques that attempt to calculate the properties of such dynamically disordered systems demand extremely high computing power, making large-scale studies impractical.
From Science Daily
Already, the discount that traders demanded to buy Russian oil in India has begun to reverse, with some traders trying to sell oil at prices above global benchmarks.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.