Sentence examples for leech demand from inspiring English sources
If he wants to argue that exports to China "create" demand and jobs around the world, he must also believe that exports from China leech demand and "destroy" jobs around the world.
The collapse in construction as orders for taxpayer-funded schools and public projects have dried up, and which has been a key cause of the latest downturn in GDP, is just one example of the coalition's fiscal tightening leeching demand out of the economy.
Consider the difference between Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, who are taught to "fail early and often," and large corporations that leech off governments and demand bailouts when they're in trouble on the pretext that they are too big to fail.
Barber complained, in a letter on October 2 to Superintendent Bosbyshell, but intended for Leech, that the constant demands for changes were wasting his time.
In the 19th century medical demand for leeches was so high that some areas' stocks were exhausted and other regions imposed restrictions or bans on exports, and Hirudo medicinalis is treated as an endangered species by both IUCN and CITES.
Thomas Klüber has seen firsthand how the downturn is leeching from business spending into consumer demand.
Female crabs witnessed a similar, but smaller, postnuptial bump in the number of leech riders, potentially when extra foraging is needed to satisfy pregnancy demands.
The growing power of Facebook also means that publishers which want to demand money from – or alternatively to lock out – Google News because of claims that it "leeches" on their content could do so without fearing a dramatic impact on their reader figures.
D.A. Weisblat (1994) The leech.
