Sentence examples for consuming national from inspiring English sources

In fact, if you have to choose the primary breeding ground for the various business misdeeds now consuming national attention, New York, I'm afraid, is the place.

That's largely because one plays football, the consuming national obsession, and the other basketball, one of those activities we tend to rank, along with volleyball, as a hobby rather than a professional sport.

Surrounding the two sides is a consuming national debate that has engulfed Parliament and the news media, pushing aside all other issues and opening deep divisions in public opinion.

Gathering information on the adiposity of a population is difficult and time consuming: national surveys such as NHANES are expensive, and international studies such as the International Day for the Evaluation of Abdominal Obesity (IDEA) are logistically challenging [ 9].

At first, Kabila tried to delay the elections by pushing for an electoral law that would make the elections dependent on the organization of a large and time-consuming national census.

The president has tried to reconcile these truths by approaching his wars in narrow terms, as a chronic but manageable security challenge rather than as an all-consuming national campaign, in the tradition of World War II or, to a lesser degree, Vietnam.

A decentralised system of this kind could also dispense with time-consuming national oversight of continuing professional education and license revalidation, which tasks could be replaced over time by tighter institutional audit supported by stronger powers to terminate underperforming employees.

Hence national self-sufficiency is, then and now, pointless and irrelevant to any consuming nation's security.

Concerned about China's roaring economic engine consuming too much energy, national officials aimed to cut energy use by 20percentt per dollar of output within five years.

With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan consuming the attention of national security planners in Washington, the Bush administration's interest in Somalia was driven primarily by fact that a handful of Qaeda operatives responsible for attacks in the Horn of Africa were thought to be hiding there.

All the while, this loss-making infrastructure continued consuming massive amounts of national revenue to operate and maintain.