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

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

3.   Recent surveys suggest that these are the foreign languages most in demand by employers.

4.   Some utilities in the United States had reduced electricity demand by giving low energy light bulbs to poor families.

5.   The President said he would never give in to demands by terrorists.

6.   The state government has begun a new purge, with plans to cut demand by imposing a surcharge.

7.   Work-inhibited children have erected emotional barriers to education and, in response to demands by adults, these barriers become more impenetrable.

8.   ...demands by Slovak nationalists for an independent state.

9.   All that is needed is a demand from library users and an understanding of that demand by librarians.