Sentence examples similar to global trappings from inspiring English sources

Although Chang still lacks many global trappings-it doesn't even have an English-language Web site-it struck a $2.9 million deal last summer to become the official sponsor of England's Everton soccer club, ironically the crosstown rivals of the Carlsberg-sponsored Liverpool club.

By requiring an average fuel economy of 27.5 miles per gallon for cars and 20.7 for light trucks, current standards save more than 2.8 million barrels of oil per day while reducing heat-trapping global warming emissions by nearly 600 million tons per year.

He pointed, for instance, to the persistence of caste bias, oppressive traditions and historical inequalities in a nation where ownership of washing machines, cars and other material trappings of global capitalism was increasing.

During this global recession, bonuses, luxurious trappings, and corporate extravagance are off the table.

Recently, I returned to Mexico where I experienced a country teetering on the brink of change created by increasing political and economic challenges, and exacerbated by the trappings of global consumerism.

The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide has jumped by a record amount, according to the US department of energy, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

China does not have the means to project its power anything like as close to America's shore, and shrewdly refrains from suggesting that it would like to.But some Americans worry that China could make a cold war with America a self-fulfilling prophecy by trying to acquire more of the trappings of a global military power.

The environmental NGO, Journey to Forever (http://journeytoforever.org) argues that 'objections to biofuels as agrofuels are really just objections to industrialised agriculture itself, along with "free trade" (free of regulation) and all the other trappings of the global food system that help to make it so destructive'.

Goacher's world could hardly be further from Trump's, with the private jet, the global network of luxury hotels, the trappings of celebrity.

The rules are intended to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.

The Environmental Protection Agency is already contemplating action on nitrous oxide because it is a heat-trapping gas linked to global warming.