1.   Any decline in the number of factories in Mexico would diminish demand for pesos.

2.   Any decline in the number of new factories or foreign businesses in Mexico would diminish demand for pesos.

3.   A lower dollar would tend to diminish demand for securities denominated in dollars.

4.   A weak euro makes that harder, because it increases the price of imported goods and diminishes European demand for them.

5.   Commodity producers fell as copper and gold prices slumped on concern that flagging Asian economies will diminish demand for the metals.

6.   Demand for new, high-yielding South Korea debt may also have diminished demand for U.S. bonds.

7.   Experts predict cigarette prices will keep climbing and escalating excise taxes will further diminish domestic demand.

8.   If consumers spend less, the economy might cool, diminishing the demand for credit as well as the risk of inflation, say some investors.

9.   It is phased in gradually, at tobacco company insistence, so as not to diminish demand for cigarettes.

10.   Soaring prices have yet to diminish demand for corn from abroad.