Sentence examples for driven consumption from inspiring English sources

Vicki Hird, a food campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: "Food waste has been growing over the last few decades because of the way supermarkets have driven consumption.

We strive to reach unattainable ideals and then spend money to alleviate the guilt that fuels an advertising driven consumption economy.

Some of shrinkage was likely short term, as overwrought fears of economic doom have temporarily driven consumption down to artificially low levels.

The recent discovery of high levels of lead from pipe welds in some of the city's public housing and other buildings has driven consumption higher as well, she said.

As a result of the bubble driven consumption, which pushed the household saving rate to zero, the economy was able to maintain reasonably high levels of employment, in spite of a trade deficit equal to 6percentt of GDP.

Nostalgia for an imagined past or a perfect landscape has driven consumption, and tinged it with a deep sense of morality for a long time, perhaps since the very first cities of the late bronze age.

"It wasn't something directed at Chávez's base and it only drove consumption up".

Then you had to drive consumption + monetization through retail / digital downloads.

One is weather patterns, the ratio of very hot days, which drive consumption, to extremely hot days, which drive peak.

For many, prosperity is defined as 'having more', which drives consumption and demands natural resources at a level never seen before.

We hope that developments in new technology and future innovation will improve the cost effectiveness of these measures over time and that this can drive consumption down further to an average of 120 l/p/d per day by 2030.