Sentence examples for act of consumption from inspiring English sources

It feels much more like a collaboration than a passive act of consumption.

It's an act of consumption where payment is an afterthought and must be seamless".

A caption on the shiny paper gloats over the way that rebellion is repressed by the act of consumption.

Second, the act of consumption itself becomes a political choice, not unlike voting, so that democratic values come to be exercised in the market.

Just by recalling the existence of sweatshops, the accusation attached a tawdriness to the garment, a reminder that, in the end, this was just another act of consumption, a bought badge of honour.

In the act of consumption of natural resources during construction processes, embodied energy and greenhouse gases are emitted which have adverse effects on the natural environment.

Both generations rely greatly on acts of consumption to create our identities.

The same guilt that might mobilise a minority to activism has been co-opted and used as a marketing tool to distract that same minority with easy acts of consumption.

Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith, minister and founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, and panel-organizer Sadhvi Bagawati Saraswati both emphasized the importance of reducing one's meat consumption as an act of conscious consumption that will benefit animals and the earth.

But such labels make a political act out of consumption, rather than non-consumption which is far more likely to produce results, he suggests.

Well, yes, it was a Swedish car, but at the time this perfectly ordinary act of conspicuous consumption felt like -- and more to the point, was being widely promoted as -- an act of civic duty.