Sentence examples for conspicuous boom from inspiring English sources

Despite a conspicuous boom in energy-efficient, recyclable, biodegradable, and nontoxic products on the market, resource exploitation continues to intensify the footprint of annual global consumption now exceeds the replacement rate of the planet's resources by one and a half times.

Despite a conspicuous boom in energy-efficient, recyclable, biodegradable, and nontoxic products on the market, resource exploitation continues to intensify — the footprint of annual global consumption now exceeds the replacement rate of the planet's resources by one and a half times.

But two of those summers we had conspicuous population booms of lemmings and the snowy owls (along with short-eared owls, rough-legged hawks, northern harriers and pomarine jaegers) were much more numerous.

The gist was lost on no one in the ballroom: the Home & Garden Television Network, the channel of "House Hunters" and "Rate My Space," which celebrated the conspicuous consumption of the housing boom, was programming for the Great Recession.

During booms, credit eases, conspicuous consumption proliferates, and fortunes swell.

Even more remarkably, they suggest that these things are making us happier than the conspicuous consumption and hedonism of the boom years.

He said that penury, in a nation again going through an oil boom with corruption and conspicuous consumption, was "the best recognition one can make of a president".

The films are shot in Broomfield's distinctive style, in which he himself is a conspicuous presence, sometimes wielding a sound boom, sometimes pleading with unhelpful security staff as the rain falls on his clear plastic mac.

But in the large cities along the eastern seaboard, the wealth from China's sustained economic boom is highly concentrated — and increasingly conspicuous.

Left-leaning elements of the Catholic church continue to condemn "conspicuous consumption" and the inequalities attendant on the retail sales boom.

In the yuppie boom of the 1980s, golf was one form of conspicuous consumption that appealed to the upwardly mobile.