Sentence examples for consumer restraint from inspiring English sources

Who knew that "capturing the laid-back culture of hip hop," as a Drank press release puts it, was a lesson in consumer restraint?

Rich nations concerned with future energy security and climate change have begun to seek alternatives to fossil fuels that won't carry the political costs of calling for consumer restraint.

Of course, Sertz says, he'd be a rich man if he could predict exactly when consumer restraint will finally erupt.

American consumer restraint will slow imports, hurting foreign lands that depend on the U.S. for export growth and depressing their own demand for American products.

The easing of consumers' restraint is welcome news for the economy.

But even when they were faced with 50percentt off leather jackets at Gap or 10percentt discounts on everything at Home Depot, consumers showed restraint.

In the world of telecommunications, the urge to converge has led to the creation of worldwide media empires that promised the happy marriage of news and entertainment content with the computer, wireless telephone and video -- all supposedly lowering prices to consumers with no restraint of trade or news.

High-tech companies wanting to collect consumer information without regulatory restraint have lost a round in federal court.

But even if the cause is just plain fear, restraint in consumer spending has a big effect.

Experts differ on whether the crackdown on petition preparers is a valuable consumer protection or a restraint of trade by a powerful monopoly.

Imported oil fell 9.9percentthe- the biggest price drop since December 1993 -- a restraint on consumer prices since industry is highly dependent upon foreign oil.