Sentence examples for much purchasing power from inspiring English sources

They do not have as much purchasing power, since their balance-sheets are not swollen with borrowed money.

Young Indians do not yet have as much purchasing power as their parents, for one thing, though because many live with their families they often have disposable income to spend on goods like clothes and cellphones.

Russian growth, they were told by officials at the British Council's education exhibition, was 4.3% last year, two to three times that of Britain - and the wealthiest third of Muscovites have as much purchasing power as the wealthiest third of Swedes.

The lawmakers unveiled a new online ticker that they said indicates how much purchasing power minimum wage workers have lost since 2009.

They could negotiate with drug companies, but the government, with much greater purchasing power, would be forbidden to do so.

This population may be dwarfed by China's 1.3 billion, but on average, Brazilians have much higher purchasing power.

If it's woman vs. woman, as in the Barrino–DeGarmo battle, perhaps the female viewers split their votes, thus leaving the runner-up with much less purchasing power.

That spread can make a huge difference in how much the purchasing power of your assets will shrink over a 25-year retirement.

"When so much of the purchasing power, so much of the economic gain, goes to the very top," Reich told me, "there's simply not enough purchasing power in the rest of the economy".

That has siphoned off much of the purchasing power that consumers should have extracted from December's tax agreement and subsequent gains in employment.

The minimum wage has lost much of its purchasing power.