Expansion in output was fuelled by growing external demand and generally expansive domestic economic policies.

As such it will support demonstrable internal and external demand.

"The size of the European market makes it more and more independent from external demand."

Those external demands provide a time-frame within which you must organize the rest of your activities and focus your attention.

A constant balancing between these two poles of organizing responds to the internal and external demands on the House.

In order to survive and meet the challenges, Congress must adjust to external demands and cope with internal stresses.

However, the effects of external demands create interpersonal stresses within Congress, and in the Senate in particular.

"That's certainly an important function but the external demands are sometimes greater."

Even though the Union remains competitive in world trade, growth cannot come from external demand.

"There's a higher level of external expectations and external demands," she says.