Sentence examples for profligate consumer from inspiring English sources
The idea that cuts can wait for the "recovery" suggests that an economic model involving profligate consumer spending, underpinned by galloping house-price inflation, was desirable to the left in the first place.
Similarly, when in 2009 Canada came last on a WWF scorecard of G8 countries' environmental policies, and the Obama administration's clean energy and security bill looked set to disproportionately harm the Albertan oil trade, Canadians were quick to note America's hypocrisy, and perhaps understandably resented being lectured by the world's largest and most profligate consumer.
When I was asked, soon after, to contribute a new work for the Eighth Sharjah biennial in the United Arab Emirates, the biennial's theme of "art, ecology and the politics of change" seemed like an impossible contradiction - here was an oil-rich country with a profligate consumer society.
The fact that Americans are saving less and less of their after-tax income is only half the profligate consumer story.
The world's biggest individual economy and most profligate consumer of energy, the United States, is growing rapidly; two giant and rapidly industrializing economies, China and India, are growing twice as fast.
In it, careful and frugal people became conspicuous, profligate consumers.
Given these worries, why would the chancellor depend so heavily on profligate consumers?
There you have the dramatis personae in Tesco's food waste script: profligate consumers, suppliers who earn a "must work harder" rating, and enlightened Tesco, leading the vanguard in the national war on waste.
No, I'm not being silly: They are, and by they I mean the gaggle of media pundits and other administration apologists--abetted by some green zealots--who want to explain our energy crisis by reference to profligate consumers.
ATLANTA, Nov. 14 — A day after Gov. Sonny Perdue asked God to forgive Georgia for being wasteful with its water, county officials in the wealthy suburbs northeast of Atlanta confirmed Wednesday just how profligate one consumer had been.
