However, demand remained high due to the ongoing military preparations of the opposition.

And when supply is equal to demand, everything's fine, but when supply falls, in this case of oxygen, and demand stays high, you're dead.

Imagine a product that is in high demand but kept behind a locked door.

There is especially high demand in foreign markets for tuna, shark, lobster and shrimp.

The third option is the Scandinavian way. Here government demand for labor keeps wages high.

They are in increasingly high demand, and we hope to expand our capacity to offer them.

Due to the rapid growth of its economy, demand for steel has increased at very high rates.

The socio economic changes cited included rapid population growth, high food demand, and land and ecological degradation.

Arms deliveries to Irtogte are increasing and prices for arms have risen sharply owing to high demand.

Another constraint was the high demand for community contributions, at 30 40 per cent of total cost.

The lifting of the ban was due to the high demand for timber for rehabilitation and reconstruction activities.

Despite the increased demand for commodities and the resultant high prices, gains were accruing to only a few countries.

Other contributory factors were high domestic liquidity and low, albeit gently rising, interest rates, which enhanced domestic demand expansion.

The cost of childcare was a function of high demand and inadequate supply, which the Government was working to increase.

Also as a result of high demand and decreased availability, prices for specific weapons increased by as much as 85 per cent.

Though the US is finally emerging from an extended period in which potential output exceeded demand, high unemployment continues to suppress demand in Europe. One of the main casualties is the tradable sector in China, where domestic demand remains inadequate to cover the shortfall and prevent a slowdown in GDP growth.

Growth also accelerated in New Zealand while remaining substantially unchanged in Australia in 2004, supported by buoyant domestic demand and high commodity prices.

This would strengthen the legitimacy and social importance of the judicial system in a country where the demand for justice is so high.

In Parties operating under paragraph 1 of Article 5, conversion of refrigerant manufacturing was largely under way, but CFC servicing demand was still high.

This is a girl in inner city Boston who had just done a high tech on demand craft sale in the inner city community center.

The key problem in times like these is that investor demand for safe, secure, and liquid assets and thus their value is too high, while demand for assets that underpin and finance the economy s productive capital is too low. The obvious solution is for governments to create more cash to satisfy the demand for safe, secure, liquid assets.

The economy is depressed and unemployment is high not because of slack aggregate demand generated by a collapse in spending, but instead because structural factors have produced a mismatch between the skills of the labor force and the distribution of demand. The structure of demand by consumers is different from the jobs that workers are capable of filling.

Today s problems are compounded by a lack of sufficient private demand particularly household consumption in the advanced economies to compensate for demand losses stemming from austerity. During the last two decades, consumption drove these countries economic growth, reaching historically high GDP shares.

If weak demand and high debt were the only factors in play, the latest round of monetary stimulus would be analytically straightforward. But they are not.

The Women in Skilled Trades program provides pre apprenticeship training geared to increase the number of women qualified for high demand skilled trades and technology jobs.

As far as Chinese demand is concerned, investment in infrastructure is continuing, although the share of capital investment in GDP has been approaching very high levels.

Continuing geopolitical tensions combined with refining and distribution industry bottlenecks caused tight supply conditions for light products, which were coupled with high oil demand throughout 2004.

UNCTAD should continue to deliver high quality technical assistance and capacity building activities to developing countries, including advice on institutional reforms on a demand driven basis.

As a result, Europe will remain a net energy importer. And, given rising global demand for oil, particularly in developing countries, energy import prices will remain high.

The Government of Pakistan has launched a 25 year energy security plan to respond to that high growth rate and to meet the rising demand for energy.

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.

With its high value, relatively low bulk and ease of transport, easily disguised identity and origin and the potential to exploit the market demand unmet by restricted supplies, the caviar trade offers organized criminal groups a low risk, high profit activity.

Consistent with recoveries from such recessions, demand has grown slowly, despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, and that explains why the unemployment rate remains high. Indeed, businesses cite uncertainty about the strength of demand, not uncertainty about regulation or taxation, as the main factor holding back job creation.

The increase is attributable to a 12 per cent increase in training activities resulting from high demand by Member States for peacekeeping training programmes (ibid., paras. 156 and 157).

The combination of high oil prices and production, low interest rates, ample liquidity in both public and private sectors and associated domestic demand expansion gave rise to strong growth.

Because high oil prices both lower demand and raise inflation, central banks respond by doing little or nothing. The effects of high oil prices thus flow through to the economy without being moderated by the world's central banks leaning against the wind.

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The efforts by UN Habitat to promote pro poor, gender sensitive policy tools to improve urban governance have led to high demand by local authorities for training and advisory services.

An increase in the price of a tangible good would typically cause demand to fall, leading the market toward a new equilibrium. By contrast, an increase in the price of an asset like a stock raises expectations of a further increase, causing demand to rise, potentially to excessively high levels.

Will Phillips s work on wages gave them no choice. But they still insisted that steady increases of demand at a fast enough rate would keep demand one step ahead of the money wage level, so that employment could be kept as high as desired, albeit at the cost of steady inflation.

In fact, tourism is a highly demand driven industry, and it is characterized by high vulnerability to external factors such as natural risks, threats to health and security and simply fashion.

Demand or Supply?