Sentence examples for consumption to catch from inspiring English sources

Applied to alcohol use, it posits that when individuals overestimate peer drinking, they are likely to adjust their own consumption to catch up with the misperceived norm.

Although China's output and income surged after 2000, its consumption habits have yet to catch up.Bootstrap businessmen from the boondocks do not always know what to do with their newfound wealth, according to research by Jacqueline Elfick, a cultural anthropologist.

The reciprocity-based model of "collaborative consumption" may take longer to catch on than new technologies for buying and renting, but it could have bigger effects in the long run, because it represents an especially low-cost form of exchange and it helps develop social networks that offer some intrinsic benefits.

If India as well as China were to catch up, world consumption rates would triple.

Those shifts and other changes designed to catch up with consumption patterns made it impossible to directly compare the January data to earlier months.

"World cotton production is unlikely to catch up with consumption for at least two years," said Sharon Johnson, senior cotton analyst with the First Capital Group, in an e-mail.

After years of underinvestment, oil companies are now in a global race to increase supplies to catch the growth of consumption.

Oil production has failed to catch up with surging consumption in recent years, a disparity that propelled oil prices to records this year.

Another fascinating development from either the Times or the Journal — I can't remember either when or which publication because the iPad has shifted my consumption to store and catch up mode.

The fine grid is used to calculate the consumption paths of the majority of individuals, and the coarse grid to catch only the few with very high incomes.

She said it could be difficult for the authorities to catch Muslims drinking and there was concern that alcohol consumption might be rising among young Muslims.