Sentence examples for consumer preoccupation from inspiring English sources

"We believe the softening reflects consumer preoccupation with geopolitical events.

The only Sunni Islamist current "left standing" in the wake of the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood was one which (in contrast to the now broken Brotherhood model) had instead immersed itself more with how to issue the "call to faith" to societies who in their slumbers (and consumer and material preoccupation) had completely forgotten Islam and inadvertently had become apostates.

Until now, the government's preoccupation with consumer price inflation had many economists wondering when fuel prices would be allowed to rise at all, despite problems in the stock market.

His preoccupation with consumer objects placed him at the forefront of Pop art, and he was one of the first artists to use magazine articles, photographs and newsprint of current events to create collages that he then made into photo silk-screen and other kinds of prints.

Then there is Eric's other preoccupation: fostering a consumer rebellion.

Joslin is realistic enough to be worried about the "continuing toxic overhang in the banking system, burdensome real estate foreclosure backlogs, U.S. consumers need to reduce personal balance sheet leverage and a preoccupation with the unemployment rate".

But if there's one thing that I think gets left out quite often in preoccupation with the dot-coms and the business-to-consumer aspect of the Internet, it's really what is happening internationally.

But his background gave him a natural feel for his teachers' preoccupation with the ways, means, and manipulative ends of spectacle in consumer culture.

Now Brexit raises questions about what happens to this longstanding British preoccupation with making the EU work better for business and consumers.

But brands that want to actually promote to consumers within the show face a paradox: consumer culture has ceased to exist in the fictional world of the show, whose characters' preoccupation is survival.

His manipulation relied on people's indifference to politics and their preoccupation with enjoying the many pleasures made possible by rising oil prices and a resulting consumer boom.