Violence has flared in Bangladesh as the country's largest Islamist party enforces a general strike to demand the release of its leaders from prison.
"It just shows how bad things look for equipment demand in general, " Twigg said.
The next day several thousand demonstrators gathered in Bangkok's financial district to demand that General Chavalit go.
The risk to this aggressive stance is a general collapse in worldwide demand.
Gold demand in general has soared globally this year, as a result of the sovereign-debt crisis in Europe and the Federal Reserve's new round of bond buying.
Already, Chile says it will not attend the next Ibero-American summit, due to be held in Cuba in November, if Spain continues to demand the general's extradition from Britain.
In response, several bloggers have argued that these elasticities are underestimated, pointing to the unreliability of estimates of long-run price elasticity of oil demand in general and to other literature with higher estimates than the IMF study.
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If demand for frac sand continues to rise, and if the general economic recovery continues to result in increased demand from other industries, U.S. Silica expects prices to go even higher.
Rising incomes have also outpaced rising oil prices and sustained emerging market demand despite a general reduction in subsidies, the IEA says.
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Just as consumers have legitimate reasons for buying multiple brands in the same category, when we are beginning our careers (or have other reasons why being number one is out of the question), we can brand ourselves in a way that our offer is unique enough to keep us in demand despite a general preference for something else.
With the demand from the backlight market nearing saturation and the general lighting market yet to take off, growth in demand has been slow, resulting in a huge demand-supply gap that has put pressure on the average LED selling price.
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Better language skills, she reckons, are a product less of market demand than of a general enthusiasm for China.
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PERS, California's state pension fund, which is urging General Electric's shareholders to demand that its executives' share options be performance-related.
While Price Club originally opened its doors only to business owners, memberships were soon offered to the general public to meet its great demand.
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When inflation is high, people find it hard to tell if a rise in the price of a product reflects general inflation or an increase in demand for that product.
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All these things can swell domestic demand and so push up general price inflation.
Accident and emergency units in Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals are experiencing "exceptionally high demand", the NHS Trust has said.
From the Northrop Grumman plant in Baltimore to the Lockheed Martin complex in New Jersey to the General Dynamics shipyard in Connecticut, Pentagon demand is an engine of prosperity.
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"With mobile downloads for BBC iPlayer, you can now load up your mobile phone or tablet with hours and hours of BBC television programmes, then watch them on the road, on the Tube, on a plane, without worrying about having an internet connection or running up a mobile data bill, " said Daniel Danker, general manager of programmes and on-demand for the BBC.
Two months later, FTC issued a Civil Investigative Demand to Watson and subpoenaed its general counsel.
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Clearly, General Electric sees more money in powering the demand for infrastructure improvements around the world than it does in consumer spending.
As for the general Medicaid population, the single greatest medical demand placed on the program, in terms of volume if not dollars, is pregnancy and childbirth.
"If you just talk about server consolidation and you don't talk about remaking a business, you're not seeing the whole picture, " says Irving Wladawsky-Berger, general manager of IBM's on-demand business.
One more reason not to lose sleep over the surge in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the backdrop of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.
Shares in banks and real-estate firms, which tend to perform better when the economy strengthens, have picked up, reflecting expectations that the Bank of Japan will loosen policy more aggressively to halt the general decline in prices that has crippled domestic demand.
After Spencerian received a civil investigative demand from the Office of the Attorney General, it removed the conflicting graduation placement rates from its website.
The French government raised wages for the low-paid, a key demand of the protestors, who ended a general strike in March.
One of the few certainties in business, or economics, or life in general is that thought is in short supply and high demand (at least among those who have thought about it).
There are concerns that demand for gilts could decline ahead of the general election, amid worries that a hung parliament could get in the way of forming plans to reduce the country's deficit.
These are often related to the insufficient allocation of funds, procedural hurdles, a lack of culture of information sharing among public servants, and the low level of awareness and demand for government-held information among the general public.
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