Sentence examples for demand dragged from inspiring English sources

BEIJING — Asian manufacturers face a challenging business climate in the coming months, surveys released Friday suggested, with China's huge factory sector managing only a shallow rebound at the start of 2013 as feeble foreign demand dragged on sales.

Stock indexes were lower for the first time in three days, as jobless claims climbed more than economists estimated and concern about a slowdown in Chinese demand dragged down commodity producers.

"Once you get that critical mass, it creates a snowball effect," said Mr. Tao, the economist, "because demand drags the whole production chain after it".

While export businesses have held up relatively well, weak domestic demand has dragged the economy as a whole into a shallow recession.

Weak demand though dragged prices, leading to an increase in yields.

One can see that the consumer index gradually inches down and that its year-over-year growth rate fluctuates, with more dips below zero than spikes over time, indicating weakening consumer demand (possibly dragged down by the overall slowdown and by e-commerce).

As the players finally gave way to those demands and dragged their weary bodies back onto the pitch, to be sportingly saluted even by the travelling Barcelona fans, one man was conspicuous by his absence.

Analysts said that the spring uptick started in April and was likely to dwindle by October, when weak demand typically drags down home prices.

Slack external demand still drags down exports and, as other Asian countries (notably Japan) suffer, the volume of semi-finished goods sent to the mainland for final assembly and sale on world markets will decline.

Uber's local markets seem to be all kind of doing their own thing for Pride, but they apparently will deliver on-demand drag shows in Seattle for the second year running.

It is not hard to see demand growth being dragged down at the start of next year by a planned rise in value-added tax in Germany and budgetary tightening in Italy.That said, some other possible sources of trouble may be less threatening than they now seem.