Sentence examples for surging consumerism from inspiring English sources

But amid the dizzying changes and surging consumerism of modern China, whose temples are Louis Vuitton boutiques, a different view of Mao can be found among many young people of Ms. Sun's ilk — young, cool, weird, out of sync with their Burberry-chasing peers.

Sandbrook attempts a mildly revisionist interpretation, proposing that Thatcher was merely responding to a culture of surging, confident consumerism, rather than driving it.

Then the deep divisions over Vietnam and civil rights, combined with a surge of consumerism and advertising, seemed to end an era of shared sacrifice for the common good.

Sub-Saharan Africa will be one of the fastest-growing regions of the world in 2011, thanks to surging demand both from abroad (from China and India in particular) and at home (fuelled by urbanisation and consumerism).

They are surging nonetheless.

House prices are surging.

Now it is surging.

Their wages are surging.

Tax revenues are surging.

Surging unemployment in Spain.

Surging hormones.