Meanwhile, immigration and rising numbers of single-person households have driven demand for rented accommodation.
With the real possibility that the policy-driven demand for wind turbines would dry up in any given year, companies were understandably wary of investing in large manufacturing facilities in the United States.
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Market-driven demand grew while government-controlled supply shrank.
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The rise in global commodities has aggravated the challenges of this policy, since Beijing can expect to import more goods at higher costs, even as it fails to generate new household consumption-driven demand effectively (notwithstanding the surge in automobile imports when comparing the first-quarter 2011 deficit to that of 2004).
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Matt Groening told the Screening Room that fans had driven the demand for the movie.
Growing electronics sales at Best Buy Mobile stores is being driven by demand for smartphone and tablets.
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The fourth-quarter data suggest prices were driven by demand for suburban apartments, which have been more affordable for owner-occupiers.
Weather has driven January demand for exterior paint up 31% in the Southeast from last year, estimates researcher .
Planalytics estimates weather has driven down demand 24% in the snow-removal industry in the current season from a year earlier.
Europe was the strongest of the three, up 30% year-over-year in the quarter, driven by demand from automotive and industrial customers.
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On August 10th Tata Motors reported a forecast-beating first-quarter profit, which it said had been driven by demand for JLR's luxury models.
Profitability has been improved thanks to a cyclical upturn driven by demand from emerging economies and a strategy of placing greater emphasis on specialty chemicals.
Driven by demand for hybrid and electric cars, lithium demand is expected to swell to 250, 000 tons annually up from current levels of 100, 000 tons.
Notebooks are a logical choice to begin with as this market is still growing despite the popularity of tablets, driven by demand from emerging markets.
The first is that this price rise is driven by demand.
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At the same time, big infrastructure projects, another key driver of China's growth, have driven up demand for raw materials from resource-rich countries such as Indonesia.
But Avis's big expansion plans (from the current ten rental stations in China to 70 by 2008) are largely driven by demand from businesses with a large share of foreign investment.
This has driven down demand and pricing for pressure pumping services like fracking that are used to extract gas from shale rock formations, severely impacting margins of most large oil field firms including Baker Hughes.
In the short term, the supply of housing is more or less fixed, so house prices are mainly driven by demand factors: namely, personal disposable income, real interest rates and the return offered by alternative investments such as equities.
Part of the growth has been driven by demand caused by everything from anthrax to bird flu to SARS. But much of it has come from 48-year-old Lim's gutsy push to ramp up quickly in a low-tech commodity business to gain an edge over his dozens of rivals.
Part of the growth has been driven by demand caused by everything from anthrax to bird flu to SARS. But much of it has come from 48-year-old Lim's gutsy push to ramp up quickly and cost effectively in a low-tech commodity business to gain economies of scale and an edge over his dozens of rivals.
Demand for palladium-process catalysts in the chemical industry should also rise, driven by downstream demand for packaging and textiles, particularly in Asia.
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Innovative solutions like demand-driven forecasting, in which real-time customer demand information is translated into super-lean production and delivery, have allowed companies to dramatically reduce inventory levels and the costs associated with them.
The growth was driven by robust demand among consumers for 4G smartphones and 3G feature phones.
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But the installation and footprint has been largely market demand driven and not necessarily strategic.
The trend towards bigger, more international firms is partly driven by client demand.
It fell in 2009 due to a fall in demand driven by high unemployment rates during the economic slowdown.
These transactions were driven by buyer demand for integrated end-to-end talent and HR systems, and this trend should accelerate.
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The positive growth should be driven by rising demand for liquid natural gas and growth in deep water exploration and production.
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More than 60% of the country's economy is driven by domestic demand.
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