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

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

VOA: special.2010.01.26

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

VOA: special.2010.03.18

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