Sentence examples similar to consumption stretched from inspiring English sources
Though one often hears calls for a "return to thrift," our history of overexuberant consumption stretches back to colonial days, when the founders fretted that the colonists' attraction to imported luxuries would undermine democratic self-rule.
The annual festival of consumption ― stretched out over a long weekend ― is heralded by an avalanche of advertising, in shop windows and online, telling us not to miss out on the deals.
SOFA incorporation of the latter would result in a delay in decision making and consumption of stretched laboratory resources.
Continued population growth and surging consumption will stretch the planet's resources, increasing pressure on forests and other ecosystems.
"We know that food consumption is extremely stretched.
In mid-March, a University of Maryland study concluded that civilization is racing toward collapse, due to extreme economic inequality and over-consumption of resources stretching the earth's carrying capacity.
"The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes," the Pope writes.
His faith informed his personal behavior: he remained committed to religious ideals, for instance objecting to Congressional sessions that stretched into Sunday and abstaining from alcohol consumption.
So, I stretched and stretched and stretched.
As the world's population soars, so does its consumption, and as a result we are stretching many of our natural resources to their limits.
