Sentence examples for has curbed demand from inspiring English sources
Recession has curbed demand for its minerals and forest products.
The shift in developed countries' output from metal-bashing industries to services has curbed demand, as have technological advances that have provided substitutes, such as fibre optics instead of copper wire.
Meanwhile, in a kind of Catch-22, the lack of a fully functioning system has curbed demand by transplant doctors for umbilical cord blood, leaving the blood banks without the money to collect and store significantly more units.
However, the highest borrowing costs since 1999 have curbed demand for household goods, economists said.
With natural gas prices way down from their peak late in 2000, largely because of a slowing United States economy that has curbed American demand for the fuel, the bonanza that once looked so promising here has yet to materialize.
The global economic slump that has curbed energy demand and pushed oil prices down in recent months may provide only a short-lived respite for consumers, according to the world's top energy forecaster.
The slowing global economy has led to declining demand for oil in Europe and the United States and has curbed consumption growth in China and other developing countries.
That has curbed apartment construction.
Beijing has curbed its dollar hoarding.
Water bills have risen, but even that has not curbed demand sufficiently.
