Sentence examples for industry and consumption from inspiring English sources
The so-called leisure class has never been more harried.Racing to the topWriting in 1962, Sebastian de Grazia, a political scientist, cast a withering eye across the great American landscape, dismayed by all the relentless industry and consumption.
SATURDAY -- To open its winter series of family programs, the Parrish Art Museum on Job's Lane in Southampton calls upon Jody Kruskal and the Public Works Orchestra, an ensemble that manages to coax music from styrofoam boxes, bottles and reinvented traditional instruments fashioned from the "flotsam and jetsam of industry and consumption".
Building on and refining McKinnon's (1993) claim that pornography silences women, Langton (1993), and Hornsby and Langton (1998) argue that the industry and consumption of pornography deprive women of the ability to perform the speech act of refusing sexual advances.
Cheap oil, natural gas and power will continue to spur emissions-intensive industry and conspicuous consumption.
— Patrick Farrell National Geographic: No, seriously, in the fresh-water-starved future of planet Earth, reclaimed wastewater will be essential for irrigation, industry and personal consumption, according to a new report by the National Research Council.
At the same time, all of this industry and mass consumption put great environmental stresses on our planet.
More and more, the long-term effects of the recession indicate that the country must modify its export orientation toward its service industries and domestic consumption.
The increasing demand for freshwater for use in paddy (wet-rice) cultivation and industry and for domestic consumption is a serious problem.
Ms. Bair, who has been outspoken since assuming her job in 2006, said the crisis was "the culmination of a decades-long process by which our national policies have distorted economic activity" away from savings and investment in industry and toward consumer consumption, housing and finance.
With the increase in global population and the rapid development of industry and agriculture, water consumption increases sharply.
Table 4 provides energy consumption in the manufacturing industry and the proportion of energy consumption in the manufacturing industry to total energy consumption.
