Sentence examples for consumption and spending from inspiring English sources

Smart meters hold the promise of showing clearly how much energy we're using, and helping us control and reduce our energy consumption and spending.

But if people are given the right incentives they are likely to save both ways, by taking their rebates and by buying more fuel-efficient cars, thereby reducing consumption and spending.

Self report surveys can be problematic for under-recording alcohol consumption (general lifestyle survey) and purchasing (living costs and food survey), which will affect the results for change in consumption and spending.

Even with the country's growing population, which was estimated to have surpassed 300 million last month, per capita consumption and spending on sweets are climbing.

Key growth components like personal consumption and spending on business equipment contributed less to the first quarter performance than originally estimated.

It's a recipe for survival that deserves far more credit from those who take waste and excess for granted and for whom consumption and spending are signs of success.

Alabama has generally low taxes on property and comparatively high taxes on consumption and spends a significant percentage of its total revenue on education, health and hospitals, welfare, and highways.

Driven by a smug moralism, the green crusaders demand that we behave like Catholics and live like Protestants, first confessing our sins of consumption, and then spending the rest of our days groping our way through the semi-darkness to sit shivering and joyless in a tub of recycled bathwater.

There was no relationship between nontrial food consumption and time spent on CFL (Appendix Table A1, Model 10).

The results of multivariate analysis of health behaviour are shown in table 4. Differences by maternal education level were found for junk food consumption and time spent on screen, and by employment status in never having breakfast.

A big factor is falling government spending: "government consumption and investment spending" has been falling sharply as the stimulus runs out and state and local governments slash.