Sentence examples for sustained consumption from inspiring English sources

"We are relying too much on consumer spending," said Edward McKelvey, a senior economist at Goldman , Sachs "and we are seeing enough stock market weakness to undermine the wealth effect that has sustained consumption".

The personal debt that alone sustained consumption (and therefore employment) under that social contract now weighs like a nightmare on the living standards of the median American.

Lead concentrations in breast muscle from some seabirds killed for food using lead shot in Greenland were considered sufficiently high for sustained consumption to be potentially hazardous to human health, even though all visible shot were removed from the tissues before analysis [19].

Together these findings suggest that there is a gender-specific response with respect to changes of substrate utilization following sustained consumption of fructose.

The objective of this study was to determine the potential effects of increased fructose consumption compared to isocaloric glucose consumption on substrate utilization and energy expenditure following sustained consumption and under energy-balanced conditions.

Our results from this 10 week study indicate that in overweight/obese adults, 40 72 years of age, sustained consumption of fructose-sweetened beverages, at 25% of energy requirements, leads to decreased net postprandial fat oxidation and increased net postprandial carbohydrate oxidation, similar to what has been observed in short-term studies.

The question now will be whether these data mark the start of a sustained, consumption-led recovery in Germany and France, which will ripple out to their eurozone neighbours; or a return to business as usual, with the strongest countries growing at a healthy clip, and the eurozone's embattled "peripheral" members trapped in a downturn.

That could sustain consumption for a while.

The hope is that the Fed's rate cuts will sustain consumption and housing activity.

They attributed this to financial innovation which enabled families to use credit to sustain consumption even when income dropped.

Remittances have become a crutch which sustain consumption but do little for investment, other than in housing, and are unevenly distributed.