The demand for the license applications on Tuesday appeared to be the first step in that process.

While demand appears to be growing, it is hardly reliable.

"If anything, demand appears to be getting a bit better," he said.

President Bush's explicit public demands for withdrawal would then appear to have been met.

Indeed, such demands have already appeared and could well become a unifying national preoccupation.

The most insistent demand these days appears to be from the Far East.

And the demand of American black people for equality appears as black nationalism.

But she also said demand for software still appeared to be fairly strong.

The pent-up demand appeared to be particularly high this year.

Because the consortium is now profitable, its demands on government money appear to be in decline.