1.   Where demand was shrinking, firms would close down or lay off workers and contract operations.

2.   As demand shrinks and competing production rises, the cartel must follow its initial production cuts with further cuts, or watch the price of oil plunge again.

3.   As investors shift out of U.S. financial markets in search of higher returns, the demand for dollars shrinks and the dollar falls.

4.   As the children grow, the demands do not shrink.

5.   As traders expect conditions have improved, domestic demand is shrinking.

6.   But demand is shrinking and the International Sugar Organization anticipates a global surplus resulting in cheaper sugar.

7.   Now traders think that production will probably stay steady, while demand will shrink, at least in the short term.

8.   Over that time, Baker Fentress management tried to drum up more attention from investors in the hope that greater demand would shrink the discount.

9.   When demand shrinks, the effect on distillers is correspondingly worse.

10.   Amid the economic slowdown, demand has shrunk, and so has supply.