Note that "demand" here does not equate to human need, but to the ability (and willingness) to pay for a product.
When he was arrested, Mr. Smith had a Banco Popular withdrawal slip with a note scrawled on it demanding money, a note that was similar to the notes used in the robberies, Deputy Inspector Wheeler said.
On Tuesday afternoon, Jimmy Lee Dykes, to whom Mr. Poland had given a gift of yard eggs and homemade jam days earlier, boarded Mr. Poland's bus and handed him a note demanding that he hand over two young children.
Afterward, Apple Dumplin' gives him a note demanding that he surrender and do good deeds; he reluctantly does so, giving the toddler and berries back to Strawberry and company.
Martha Stewart?" (TV can joke, but fairness demands a note that Ms. Stewart's financial dealings are under scrutiny by federal prosecutors in Manhattan and that she denies wrongdoing).
Note that cumulative demands of customers must not exceed the capacity of vehicle.
But two economists at HSBC, Qu Hongbin and Sun Junwei, said in a joint research note that demand in China for raw materials seemed to be weakening, with a falling tonnage last month of imports of crude oil, iron ore, copper and aluminum.
Christoph Rieger, a strategist at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, wrote in a research note that banks' demand "has been higher than what could have been expected by most reasonable estimates".
A persistent problem, he noted, is that demand outpaces supply.
Note that demands like this one do not have a great track record when it comes to future political livelihood.
