Sentence examples for consumption of something from inspiring English sources

Charles de Vaulx, a portfolio manager at International Value Advisers, prefers to focus on people's consumption of something less edifying than knowledge.

On our first night out, eager to ingratiate ourselves with the glamorous offspring of the beautiful people, we aped their consumption of something called a "sambuca shot".

One can even imagine a national decision to devote a larger proportion of national resources to the care of the old, given that a larger proportion of the population will be old — preferably to be paid for by taxing something we'd like to see less of (like fossil-fuel consumption) instead of something we'd like to see more of (like jobs).

The quick and cavalier consumption of others has something to do with Facebook, Humans of New York's native and most comfortable medium.

"You always know that if you reduce the cost or increase the cost of something, consumption of that item will change," Dr. Popkin said.

But the image she conjured of a ravenous engine of consumption suggested something more than mere media concentration.

This is fine, but the heavy handed critique of consumption is something we could do without.

Reducing the natural resource consumption of a building is something that should be targeted right from the start, at the design stage.

Crass Christmas consumption is something many of us rail against, but many more of us get wrapped up in each year.

He wasn't always like that, but it happens to a certain amount of people, whether it's genetics… or probably his huge consumption of weed and psychedelics had something to do with it.

That's something passive consumption of a music video, 30-second mp3 preview, or banner ad cannot do.