#demand

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#also #been #demand #doubt #english

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#giving #more #sharing #sometimes #than

Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#aged care #care #demand #few #health

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cuts #demand #directly #economy #effect

In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#course #demand #drop #had #joblessness

Our demand for meat, dairy and refined carbohydrates - the world consumes one billion cans or bottles of Coke a day - our demand for these things, not our need, our want - drives us to consume way more calories than are good for us. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#bottles #calories #cans #carbohydrates #coke

I know how demanding the process of creation is. ↗

— Karen Kain

#demanding #how #i #know #process

We have to be a state where business is welcome and jobs are created. We have to demand value for what is spent and we need to continue to resist a lottery. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#continue #created #demand #jobs #lottery

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#demands #habits #must #past #political