Sentence examples for wasteful consumer from inspiring English sources
They wouldn't be as defensive about scaling back on big cars or other wasteful consumer items; they'd want to do it.
Ms. Mabel Dodge Luhan (dec'd), Taos, New Mexico: "Our wasteful consumer society buys, reads, and discards more brand-new hardcover fiction in a single day than the rest of the industrial world combined.
City life hones wits and the most successful animals – like the Hanuman langurs in Jodhpur in northern India – that have migrated from their remote jungles are exploiting man as a wasteful consumer, thieving and charming their way to unprecedented levels of fertility.
And the noxious effects are getting magnified as the developing world copies and catches up to our wasteful consumer habits.
I'd always associated the term with the late John Kenneth Galbraith, the brilliant Harvard economist whose 1958 book, The Affluent Society, warned that an increasing share of America's economy was devoted to making ineffective products and promoting wasteful consumer spending.
These "oil intensive" nations often have inefficient industries, big manufacturing bases, wasteful consumers or some combination of all three.
And OPEC blames speculators, wasteful U.S. consumers and feckless U.S. policy.
BEHIND THE NEWS Farm subsidies have long been criticized as wasteful, hurting consumers, the Treasury and foreign trade far more than they help family farms.
On the surface, this is a peculiar message for a company identified with a social-welfare state to send to a nation of ravenous, wasteful capitalist consumers -- or at least an odd one to cast in such specifically national terms.
He envisions the owners of old forgotten gadgets in other words, wasteful hyper-consumers like you and me streaming hi-definition video of whatever we want, 24 hours a day.
Saying that the economy will only get worse, Mr. López Obrador announced a campaign to press the government to cut wasteful spending, lower consumer prices and taxes, and do more for the poor.
