Without demand from companies, who else will there be to buy?
Without a demand for their goods, businesses are slow to invest in new equipment and hire new employees.
The energy industry will not invest in a market without consumer demand.
And as basic economic theory tells us, in any given system, when you increase supply without boosting demand, the result is that prices fall.
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Today, there are only a handful of IPOs on the horizon, so it goes without saying demand will be greater for their shares, and they will attract higher valuations on the open market.
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Our level of productivity is such that we can meet aggregate demand without employing the services of all those willing to work.
It is a dark, dystopian vision, but one that speaks directly to the realities that surround us: chronic dependency, demand without limits, violent acquisition and addictive control.
Dell's purchasing managers are working equally hard with suppliers to watch parts inventories on an hour-by-hour basis, making sure Dell has just enough parts to meet expected demand without clogging the system with excess inventory.
That will be a key question for profitability as retailers aim to carry just the right amount of goods to meet demand without either running low and missing out on sales, as some did in 2009, or carrying so much that steep discounts are needed.
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To keep videos streaming on demand without annoying delays, most video sites use expensive content delivery networks like Akamai and Limelight, and sites like YouTube--as well as clones launched by practically every television network--have struggled to find an advertising model that produces enough revenue to offset those ballooning bandwidth costs.
Without this law, consumers would be free to demand tuna caught without setting on dolphins, or they might prefer to buy only tuna whose capture was certified as dolphin safe by an independent observer.
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It is a situation common to many developing countries - increasing demand, without increasing yields.
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Malaysians are now confident that they can demand change without at the same time risking ethnic strife, as seemed likely in the past.
Initial public offerings can take as long as three years to meet regulatory approval and often come to market without regard to investor demand.
There is enough residential property currently under construction to meet about five years of demand, without new projects being started, up from 2.9 years in 2009.
Without it, the demand for crude oil would have risen beyond the current demand figures, thus driving up on prices as well as straining broader geopolitical relations.
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One cannot demand anything without first having something to supply.
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No one can demand anything without supplying something first.
Unfortunately, the U.S. already lacks the drivers available to meet anticipated growth in shipping demand, even without ethanol.
So can that additional demand be created without the price of gilts falling and implied borrowing costs for the government rising?
Without that pent-up demand, resources freed from supply-side measures and austerity get saved, not spent, and no self-reinforcing cycle is triggered.
So there's a lot of experience in the Guard, for approaching these types of operations without putting a lot of demand on the people.
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"Without infrastructure to meet the rising demand, the UK will inevitably turn away business, " he said.
The possibility we neglected was that the demand might be satisfied without better public services.
Everybody must realize that if you don't meet customer demand quickly enough, without sacrificing quality, a competitor will.
Asset sales are an attractive way of cleaning up the public balance-sheet without doing anything that further chokes demand.
Without action, he says, demand for spectrum will soon outlast supply.
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And, because the economic value is high, markets want more and consequently drive energy demand in large measure without regard to primary fuel cost--the cost of energy fades in to the twilight.
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