Sentence examples for encouraging consumerism from inspiring English sources

Instead of encouraging consumerism, they could focus on educating their prospects into being responsible home buyers.

Social scientist Juliet Schor shows that extensive screen time encourages consumerism, leading children to value money and brands.

Alabama and Oklahoma lawmakers aren't trying to go quite that far, but — for all the wrong reasons — they could be at the vanguard of scrubbing top-down support for an institution that continues to affirm stale gender roles, that continues to keep the church too close to the state and that continues to encourage consumerism through costly wedding celebrations.

Don't feel bad for not wanting to participate in mass events that encourage consumerism, nationalism, or throwing away all independent thinking to a poorly thought through "common" cause whipped up by the media or corporate sponsors.

Italians buy a disproportionate number of toys from small, local makers.UNICEF, a United Nations agency, slates British parents for encouraging "compulsive consumerism" in their children.

I love that they are encouraging conscience consumerism.

I've witnessed spectacles of gourmet gluttony and wasteful indulgence that pique my constant (if latent) guilt about encouraging excessive consumerism.

The writer imagined a society in which family was outlawed, recreational sex with multiple partners was encouraged and consumerism was worshipped as the new religion.

But in one area Mr Bell was prescient: he worried that consumerism was encouraging people to borrow more money than they could reasonably hope to repay.He was even more prescient about what might be called "the cultural contradictions of the welfare state".

Aisles of back to school shopping are beginning to sprout up in stores nationwide, encouraging a level of consumerism that is not particularly green.

The standardisation of treatment in this way reduces opportunities for negotiation because many key decisions about treatment have already been made, probably encouraging paternalism rather than consumerism or mutuality.