Sentence examples for less purchasing from inspiring English sources
That rate hasn't changed in 23 years … and as everything else in the world has gotten more expensive, the gas tax fund has begun to have less and less purchasing power.
This means that investors will have to scale back the size of their loans and will therefore have less purchasing power and less ability to pay a speculative premium for properties, creating more of a level playing field in the market.
"My point to His Majesty is going to be, when consumers have less purchasing power because of high prices of gasoline — in other words, when it affects their families, it could cause this economy to slow down," the president said in an expansive interview summarizing his eight-day trip to the Middle East.
Economists attribute the local weakness in spending partly to continuing job losses on Wall Street since the stock market plunge of October 1987 and a slowing of wage increases and rising prices, which have left many people with less purchasing power.
A Bold Prediction You have to wonder how much longer the U.S. consumer can hold out with, first, less purchasing power on imports as a result of the weak dollar, second, higher prices at the gas pump, and third, no home-equity line to tap into.
Another reason may be that some consumers have less purchasing power than others, and giving them benefits, so they can stay in the market, improves the overall competitiveness (and liquidity, see below) of the market, which in turn forces the richer consumers to bid higher.
As local reporters had complained for years, Massey's CEO Don Blankenship had "more or less purchased the state's government" with a consistent flow of camapaign ad dollars.
There would still be calls for an early election, but they would now have less purchase.
In general, far-right parties have found less purchase than elsewhere in Europe.
"We've been calling it 'pragmatic luxuries.' Women are buying less purchases but spending more on each product.
That sort of defeats the purpose of ebooks, because if I had to carry around, much less purchase, a handful of ebook readers the main purpose of having an ebook reader is eliminated.
