Sentence examples for diminished buying from inspiring English sources

At the core of President Obama's economics speech on Wednesday was the notion that as rising inequality diverts income growth from the many Americans in the broad middle class, their diminished buying power leads to slower growth.

Declining revenue from sales taxes is also an indirect result of diminished buying power among consumers.

Our social housing stock is fast diminishing, buying a home is still an impossible dream for many and the rental market is both viciously competitive and increasingly unaffordable.

But with the dollar worth significantly less than the Euro, that trip to Paris or Barcelona can take a toll on one's bank account, diminishing buying power for everything from the price of crepes to admission to the Louvre to a room at the Four Seasons.

Wilting under criticism, Congress diminished the Buy American provisions before passing the Stimulus.

The sad fact is that the pound's purchasing power is diminished and can buy fewer euros, dollars and yen.

With their buying power diminishing by the week, they searched for quality furniture.

Peter Lewis, a former employee of both The Times and The Des Moines Register, which was bought and diminished by Gannett after he left the paper, ripped the Gannett bonuses on his blog, Words and Ideas, in summarizing an approach in which getting rid of jobs passes for a strategy.

Without their control of much of the country's resources, including metals, the oligarchs would have had a harder time buying influence and diminishing the power of the government.

The XL is brand new, so I haven't had the opportunity to test its longevity yet, but the Powerstation Pro I've had now for a couple of years still seems not to be noticeably diminished vs. when I first bought it.

Even as last year's concerns have subsided, he said, "buying hasn't diminished".