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The point is that Steve Jobs was a participant in a process whereby suppliers compete with one another for the affections of demanders and demanders compete with one another for the affections of suppliers.

From Forbes • Oct. 7, 2011

Its demands for political independence, however, mean different things to different demanders.

From Time Magazine Archive

The demands were mutually incompatible, the demanders adamant.

From Time Magazine Archive

The story explained that the Brothers Levand were the demanders, that they had telegraphed Sen- ator Capper of Kansas to get busy.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this case, it is physically impossible that the number of demanders should increase, while the quantity of produce diminishes, as the demanders only exist by means of this produce.

From Nature and Progress of Rent by Malthus, T. R. (Thomas Robert)