"raise demands" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means making formal or official requests or requirements for something. Example: The workers are planning to hold a strike to raise their demands for higher wages and better working conditions.
Just because you raise demands and expectations does not mean you raise standards".
It was one of MTV's first smash hits, and helped raise demands for a parental-warning ratings system on all recordings.
Officials close to one of Britain's most senior Catholics, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, said he would raise demands for the Act of Settlement to be repealed or substantially redrafted when the pair next meet.
But while the emergence of Muslim identity provides an opportunity for Christians to assert their presence too, it would simply raise demands from many different minority religions that would be at odds with modern democratic life.
The Palestinian push to raise demands on Israel seems at times to work at cross-purposes with Secretary General Kofi Annan's efforts to build a balanced role for himself and the organization in the region.
Simply writing off Greece's debt would "immediately raise demands by other countries with high debt", he says, and would be especially difficult for the ECB and other debtors to swallow, given that banks and other private investors have already renounced "more than 50% of their claims - the largest debt relief in history".
In other cases, robots may raise demand for doctors' services.
In the long run, it could raise demand by 100percentt.
Stimulus would raise demand for goods and services, which would lead to higher prices.
A subsidy allows a business to cut prices and artificially raise demand.
Auto executives say that proposed tax cuts would help raise demand for new cars a bit.
