supply and demandin a sentence
- The average stay for an Unwind is three weeks, although it varies depending on blood type and supply and demand.† (source)
- Supply and demand.† (source)
- Remember the law of supply and demand.† (source)
- It's a matter of supply and demand.† (source)
- "It's the law of supply and demand," Vee said.† (source)
- "It's as if we expect border control agents to do what a century of communism could not: defeat the natural market forces of supply and demand and defeat the natural human desire for freedom and opportunity," noted New York mayor Michael Bloomberg told Congress.† (source)
- When he encountered a wave of enemy resistance to this attack, he stuck to his position without regard for his safety or reputation and gallantly invoked the law of supply and demand.† (source)
- We know the market, supply and demand.† (source)
- Why, the law of supply and demand regulates the price of houses.† (source)
- Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world.† (source)
- Something to be worked so much and paid so much, and there ended; something to be infallibly settled by laws of supply and demand; something that blundered against those laws, and floundered into difficulty; something that was a little pinched when wheat was dear, and over-ate itself when wheat was cheap; something that increased at such a rate of percentage, and yielded such another percentage of crime, and such another percentage of pauperism; something wholesale, of which vast…† (source)
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- I assume that a salary is the price paid for a commodity, and it ought to conform with the law of supply and demand.† (source)
- It may happen that the final result of a revolution is favorable to commerce and manufactures; but its first consequence will almost always be the ruin of manufactures and mercantile men, because it must always change at once the general principles of consumption, and temporarily upset the existing proportion between supply and demand.† (source)
- …salary is fixed without any regard for that law, as, for instance, when I see two engineers leaving college together, both equally well trained and efficient, and one getting forty thousand while the other is satisfied with two; or when I see lawyers and hussars, having no special qualifications, appointed directors of banking companies with immense salaries, I conclude that the salary is not fixed in accordance with the law of supply and demand, but simply through personal interest.† (source)
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