It reminds readers of how the supply-side of politics—law and government is often neglected for the noisy demand-side that is the purview of voters and lobbyists.
Poor countries are making noisy demands for free drugs and are threatening to override patents through "compulsory licensing".
Radical Salafist groups often take to the streets with noisy demands for such things as the imposition of sharia law.
What seems to have stirred people were noisy demands by foreigners for Japan to make recent tax cuts permanent to help revive the moribund economy.
For the new occupant of the White House, as for his predecessor, the noisy demands of Capitol Hill will always drown out any whimpers from across the border.
With budgets tight at home, and noisy demands for help from domestic constituencies, however, Brown is concerned many countries are failing even to live up to the promises on aid they made at the Gleneagles G8 meeting in 2005.
The movie becomes a microscopic examination of shifting family dynamics with the birth of their child, Ricky, a noisy, demanding boy who takes attention away from Lisa, who in one scene is shown secretly clipping his wings.
Here's what he says (page 126) about a ban on the use of the pesticide DDT for disease control: 'Young ideologues' and 'urban green lobbies'... 'made noisy demands until the US Congress obliged them and other nations soon followed.
On Thursday the wise heads on the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, charged with setting interest rates, left them unchanged at 4.75% (see article) despite noisy demands from the head of the CBI, Britain's employers' federation, for an immediate cut.
Macdonald is excellent at conversation – the phonecalls between Mary Rose and her mother are superb in their accuracy – but this is a very conversation-dependent novel and the cacophony of voices, whilst perhaps replicating accurately Mary Rose's environment of noisy, demanding children, partner and family members, can sometimes be wearing.
Baidu, an online search firm, and Tencent, which makes online games, have also since entered the fray.Some see these online firms as a serious long-term threat to banks and the government's ability to control the financial sector, prompting noisy demands (mostly by banks) to regulate the upstarts.
