Sentence examples for discouraged consumption from inspiring English sources

It was previously consumed in Germany, with fungi picked in and exported from Poland; more recently, however, Germany and Switzerland discouraged consumption by prohibiting its sale.

Economists point out that sales taxes discourage consumption, which is better than discouraging investments that can pay off in the future.

"A logical energy policy," Mr. West said, "is to encourage production and discourage consumption.

He believed in raising prices to discourage consumption of & dependence on imported oil.

In such cases, the simplest solution is to discourage consumption by taxing it.

Governments slap on high taxes — sometimes as high as 80percentt of the cost — in part to discourage consumption.

Our long-run policy should be to encourage production and discourage consumption, so this doesn't happen again.

China will raise electricity rates on Jan . 1to discourage consumption and help power companies finance new generators.

These taxes could help pay for education programs, subsidize the healthiest foods for low-income individuals and, maybe, discourage consumption.

That's actually a good thing, since we wouldn't want to discourage consumption during a deep economic downturn.

The study, which examined price trends from 1990 to 2000 in more than 80 countries, called on finance ministers to raise tobacco taxes to discourage consumption.