Robert Shaw says this kind of train-the-trainer program helps meet a growing demand for professionals in information and communication technologies,or ICT.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

Now to make that lower-of-the-two-prices comment a little bit more rigorous, let's figure out what the demand actually is for these firms.

为了说明两者价格较低者,具体是什么意思,先来解决这些公司真正的需求量是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

That means you could go to a bank and demand gold and the bank then could go to the Federal Reserve and get gold for it.

这意味着你可以走进一家银行,索要金子，然后那家银行可以,去联邦储备银行得到这部分金子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The discovery could help farmers meet a growing demand for food as water supplies decrease.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

They're aspects of demand for performance at the highest level, and at the time there is a great deal of blaming people for pursuing such things instead of humility.

它们是一方面要求最高水平的出色表现,而又时不时针对人们,追求表现而忽视谦卑的行为进行大量的批判

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The growth of these industrial centers created a big demand for food, especially meat.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Lawmakers in Washington seemed to have understood the public demand for a cleaner environment.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

For example, one effect of a weak economy is less demand for office space.

VOA: special.2009.09.04

"Because of the public's need for transparency, because of the public's demand for a full accounting, these investigations, they are a good thing,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.30

John Burey,who runs a meat processing company in the northern state of Queensland, thinks there is huge demand in China for the toads.

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

"Each side has a position,". He explained that Syria "may demand the Golan Heights in exchange for peace, while would demand peace for peace."

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat,speaking on Palestinian radio, said Mr.Abbas would tell Mitchell there will be no compromises from the Palestinians on their demand for a settlement freeze.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

The government resisted this demand for more than a year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

I pulled him out because even if he graduates, he cannot find a job. During the weekend, thousands of activists marched to the Lebanese capital to demand rights for Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Aircraft consultant Richard Aboulafia says while air travel appears to be making a comeback, demand for first class tickets remains sluggish and airline revenues are well below 2008 peak levels.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

The International Energy Agency, an intergovernmental energy advisor, has projected an almost in conventional oil production by 2020 and the potential for a serious gap between supply and demand by 2015.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

More disposable income means a greater demand for entertainment.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

They were expecting a much stronger intervention by Obama last year,in 2009, when Obama stepped back from his demand for a complete settlement freeze and this led Palestinians to feel betrayed and abandoned."

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

They meet with the senator for 15 minutes. "What I assured them was: given their plea and call and demand in a polite way for us to have a clean energy future, that was job one for me."

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

He says increased demand for the fish could solve two problems - getting paid to fish a nuisance out of the river, and returning the populations of native fish to normal levels not seen in several decades.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03