The past decade has seen a growing demand for United Nations humanitarian assistance.

Regional programmes are generally understaffed to meet a growing demand for their services.

The growing demand for natural resources puts a premium on promoting regional cooperation policies.

Public services there are no longer adequate given the increased demand of a constantly growing population.

The private sector has met most of the growing demand for childcare.

But demand was ever growing and it was difficult to tamper with existing documents.

Insofar as there is growing overall demand and segmentation of demand, the existence of unorganized retailing would not be expected to be put at risk as a result of reform.

The growing and insistent demand for integrity in public life further emphasizes the complexity of modern public administration.

A growing proportion of States have a multisectoral and coordinated national drug control strategy in place, offering the political and strategic foundations for effective demand reduction.

In that connection, there is a worldwide effort under way to ensure that there are sufficient amounts of the raw material available to meet growing demand.

The underlying causes of deforestation include the demand on forest land for agriculture, grazing and human settlements the growing demand for timber and forest products and a range of biotic and abiotic factors that adversely affect forest health and vitality.

Accordingly the global demand for nuclear knowledge and materials, including the programs for development of fuel cycle facilities are growing rapidly.

In rapidly developing nations, demand for energy intense foods, like meat, is growing, increasing the total amount of fossil fuels used.

New capacity is mainly planned in developing countries and countries in transition with relatively low production costs and rapidly growing domestic demand.

Market trends increasingly reveal the growing demand for diversified travel experiences, from seaside resorts (often linked to mass tourism) to cultural discoveries.

A large part of this was related to investment in natural resources, supported by a strong rise in global commodity prices and growing demand for diamonds, gold, oil, platinum and palladium.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was the envy of the world, owing to an all powerful export machine that tapped the demand of a rapidly growing global economy. Japan, Inc. still has a good institutional memory of what it takes to draw support from external demand.

The world market may just be able to absorb a 10 per cent growth in supply over two years, provided that Chinese demand continues growing at its recent rates.

A fourth trend, which has emerged in the past years, is related to a growing demand to make democracy more meaningful and to allow for more opportunities of participation in policymaking.4

As a result, the income of the global elite is growing both rapidly and independently of what is happening in terms of overall output and employment growth. Demand for luxury goods is booming, alongside weak demand for goods and services consumed by lower income groups.

Likewise, food scarcity is a growing problem for Asian countries, with crop yields and overall food production growing more slowly than demand. At the same time, rising incomes are altering people s diets, which now include more animal based proteins, further compounding Asia s food challenges.

UNOPS experienced growing demand for its services, particularly for project management services supporting large scale, complex programme activities in post conflict and transitional situations.

To meet the growing demand for information, the Department must adopt innovative media and newer, faster technologies and optimize the tools it already had.

With imports still growing strongly and commodity prices beginning to fall as a result of the world slowdown, Argentina s large trade surplus is disappearing quickly. Fearing a weaker peso, spooked investors demand dollars.

Over the past few decades, responding to steadily growing demand, the system has seen a welcome expansion in its membership as well as in the scale and scope of its activities.

The warming of the Arctic and the growing demand for the natural resources of the region are leading to a rapid increase in navigation in areas previously considered inaccessible to commercial shipping.

Economic and financial nationalisms threaten. There is talk of currency wars, national management and regulation of banking, and growing demand for greater levels of trade protection.

It is against this background that The World's Women 2005 analyses the extent to which the growing demand for gender statistics is being met by Governments.

Gross merchandise volume in online retail sales is approaching CN 2 trillion ( 316 billion), and growing at a rate of 40 60 annually. Many other industry segments serving domestic demand are also growing at double digit rates, suggesting that domestic consumption is already making a more significant contribution to China s GDP growth.

The second Achilles' heel is complexity a growing fragility, a growing brittleness.

As the representatives of Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran had pointed out, high oil prices were indeed caused by growing demand rather than restricted supply.

At the same time, rapidly growing middle classes across the developing world would constitute a new source of demand. With their share of global GDP increasing, developing countries would sustain relative demand for commodities, thereby preventing prices from reverting to the low levels that prevailed in the 1980 s and 1990 s.

This trend mirrors the growing demand of both beneficiary and donor countries, as well as the widening scope of the trade and development challenges faced by all developing countries.

A growing proportion of States have developed and are implementing a multisectoral and coordinated national drug control strategy, including national demand reduction plans or strategies, which provide the political and strategic foundations for effective and coordinated drug control action.

It is a challenge owing to the persistent discrepancy between the rate of economic growth in these countries, which limits Government budgetary allocations to meet the growing demand for primary education and that of population increase.

Indeed, Asia s growing middle class will transform a region known as a global manufacturing hub into a consumption powerhouse. As demand rises, more and better jobs will be created not only in Asia, but also globally, along supply chains and across production networks.

The achievement of UNOPS in growing and diversifying its business portfolio demonstrates, inter alia, that there is demand for UNOPS services and recognition of the added value that UNOPS provides.

Growing worker insecurity is seen as the basis for a healthy economy. Labor market liberalization in such circumstances not only undermines remaining social protection, but is also likely to diminish real incomes, aggregate demand, and, hence, recovery prospects.

As a result, taxpayers may need to pay twice, once for the bailout and again for the low quality debt they have incurred during the bailout, as the austerity programs unveiled in Europe attest. Paradoxically, the growing sense that a catastrophe has been averted has given rise to a growing demand for governments to cut public and social spending, and to refrain from proposing investment programs.

Unfortunately, for both institutions, such countries growing demand for financing merely means business as usual. Consider the recent standby arrangement with Latvia, whose conditions include a massive 25 cut in public sector wages, a similar reduction in government expenditures, and a huge tax increase.

Today, a deficiency of aggregate demand afflicts almost all advanced countries, leading to high unemployment, lower wages, greater inequality, and coming full, vicious circle constrained consumption. There is now a growing recognition of the link between inequality and economic instability and weakness.

The work of the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) in Ukraine should include the immediate formulation of a programme to meet the growing demand for reproductive health services, including family planning and HIV AIDS prevention and treatment.

Tom is growing a mustache.

That is a growing problem.

But controlling supply is not enough. If all of Colombia s farmers stopped growing coca tomorrow, unrestrained demand by the world s 13 million cocaine users would quickly generate as much cultivation somewhere else.