Sentences with phrase «on the consumption end»

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With little success to toast on the field or at the ballot box for that pair in recent years, it's not surprising that champagne consumption is on the low end of our list.

It has been running on government «steroids», most of which was withdrawn at the end of 2010 - 11, the strength of the housing sector and heavy personal consumption.

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

This is having a negative effect on China's competitiveness at the very low end of the value chain, but higher wages are feeding into higher consumption, while the authorities continue to target transportation and environmental infrastructure for investment.

It has been running on government «steroids», which will be withdrawn at the end of 2010 - 11, the strength of the housing sector and heavy personal consumption.

To this end, the Board must establish rules for companies that hope to commissioning places miningowych, and these rules skupiałyby on who will pay for the increased consumption of electricity.

Over the past several years, high - end hybrids and futuristic electric cars have slowly become more prominent on American roads as consumers realize the impact of fossil fuel consumption on the...

The Webinar included presentations on: Flexible Packaging Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emission Benefits, presented by Jeff Wooster, The Dow Chemical Company; Options for Managing Flexible Packaging End of Life, presented by Dr. Ron Cotterman, Sealed Air Corporation; and an Overview on How to Use the Flexible Packaging Sustainability Advantages Toolkit, presented by Shanna Moore, DuPont Company.

In terms of own price elasticity values, a recent meta - analysis estimated an average own price effect for carbonated sugar sweetened drinks (a near equivalent of the category non-concentrated sugar sweetened drinks, which predominantly includes carbonated drinks) of − 0.93, larger than our value of − 0.81.51 Our estimated value is also at the lower end of the range of own price elasticities frequently cited for sugar sweetened drinks of − 0.8 to − 1.0, based on one large review.52 Our own price estimate is comparable to experimental data (a 25 % reduction for a 35 % price rise) in a canteen study.53 However, all these estimates may be influenced by US studies in which higher estimates may reflect higher levels of consumption.

In 2013 we announced our ambition to lead on reducing food waste globally and made a straightforward commitment that by the end of 2017, no food that is safe for human consumption will be wasted inside the Tesco United Kingdom (UK) retail operation.

Huggies Snug & Dry is a trademark of Kimberly - Clark Worldwide ** Luvs Diapers versus Huggies Diapers based on average consumption and Nielsen average non-promoted retail price 3 months ending 05/02/2015

Another by University of Chicago economists suggests «trickle - down consumption:» when the rich spend on high - end goods, that influences the non-rich around them to also spend to keep up.

NCBA said Meatless Monday «is an animal rights extremist campaign to ultimately end meat consumption» and «NCBA will not remain silent as USDA turns its back on cattlemen and consumers.»

One year after the end of the intervention, 36 months after the productive asset transfer, 8 out of 10 indices still showed statistically significant gains, and there was very little or no decline in the impact of the program on the key variables (consumption, household assets, and food security).

If you focus too much on weight loss, you might end up getting caught up in a restrict - binge cycle of sugar consumption.

On the high end of sodium consumption, 11 percent of hypertensive study participants had sodium intake greater than 7 grams per day and were therefore also at significant increased risk.

Men tend to neglect their emotional state and focus most on their calorie consumption and hence, end up gaining weight instead.

Meanwhile, on the luxury end of consumption, this article is hardly surprising to me.

The idiom has remained popular long after the strip's end, and the philosophy of «keeping up with the Joneses» has widespread effects on some societies, where conspicuous consumption occurs when people care about their standard of living in relation to their peers.

Besides such commonalities as Chris Cooper (here, Davis's disapproving boss and father - in - law), marijuana use and the topic of homophobia, «Demolition» — much like «American Beauty» — attempts to comment on materialistic consumption as a false measure of success and the breakdown of social connections (I liked how Davis» sleek and sharp - edged contemporary home looks and feels like a high - end freezer).

Let other people use your general purpose tools to make amazing things on their own and, should they end up doing a better job than you at delivering on your core value proposition, thank them for pushing you to up your game, or just be grateful the world will now be a better place because a better solution has been devised and released for consumption.

Life has spent about 3.8 billion years on Earth, and its ecosystems are organized through strategies based on constant trial and error, hence we can learn many lessons for the building of a new human evolutionary phase capable of ending poverty, hunger, inequality between countries, gender inequality, irresponsible consumption, unsustainable industrialization, pollution of the seas and oceans, and so on.

Checking fuel consumption on the wide - open state highways around Anchorage, Alaska, we had no difficulty meeting or beating the EPA 29 - mpg highway estimate, ending the day with an average 28.6 mpg that included some idling with stop - and - go city traffic mixed in.

On the other end of the fuel - consumption scale are two hybrid models, the Fusion Hybrid and Fusion Hybrid Energi plug - in model, which like the standard sedan both come in a hedonistic Platinum model.

However, the i20 is not offered with an auto dimming IRVM anymore (on the top - end variant), still lacks an auto - door lock function, and features an outdated multi-information display with no fuel consumption readouts.

This process has actually been ongoing for quite some time and began with the emergence of tools that digitized the back - end of the business; word processors, computers, design software, email and much more (which changed writing, editing, typesetting, design etc) and has over time moved from there towards more front facing aspects of the industry (production, distribution, selling) before starting to make a large impact on the consumer side of the industry, consumption in the form of ebooks and web - reading (not to mention making many other forms of content from music to games available to those consumers).

Ebook sales rise, unit consumption surprises — Ebooks sales will approach 20 % of trade book revenues on a monthly basis by the end of 2011 in the US, yet the bigger surprise is that ebooks will account for one third or more of unit consumption.

In delegating, the end investor does not mandate that the manager must evaluate securities based on the investor's utility maximization problem, and a natural alignment of the investor's and manager's interests is not present: managers are incentivized to outperform relative to a stated benchmark or to peers, rather than to operationalize the consumption model of the end investor.

«Canada is on the opposite end for all those factors, plus Canada levies a consumption tax on fund management services.»

Introduction: Lucia Pietroiusti, Public Programmes curator, Serpentine Galleries Screening: Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Fade, 1976 (27 min, colour) Talk: Chris Kabel, on blue skies and talking machines: a short talk about Kabel's latest works and the immersive and experiential layers that are incorporated therein Talk / Reading: Gil Leung, Assets, 2015: A short reading on isolation pods, jet lag and the end of a relationship Screening / Talk: Sidsel Meineche Hansen, screening of the animations ONE - self, 2015 and Seroquel ®, 2014, and a talk about the psycho - pharmaceutical industry and the emotional - industrial complex Screening: Betzy Bromberg, Soothing the Bruise, 1980 (16 mm, 21 min, colour) Talk: Alexei Penzin, The Night Preserved: night, sleep, and the continuum of sleepless production, reproduction, consumption, financial speculation, and other incessant and open - ended activities without any interruption or meaningful finale Screening / Performance: Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, Winter Solstice - Meditations in the Colour Blue, 2015, performed by Das Hund (Samuel Levack, Jennifer Lewandowski, Nicholas Pankhurst, Fancy Smith.

In addition, Mutu will present The End of Eating Everything, 2013 the artist's first animated short that is a mesmerizing commentary on mass consumption in contemporary life.

De Jong's use of these materials is a deliberate commentary on the bleak industrialization of culture in the age of mass consumption, and the inevitable end result: a disposable and flippant degradation of humanity.

Reflecting on gluttonous consumption and overindulgence, the video offers an ending at once apocalyptic and hopeful in the sudden transformation of this sickly, sinister entity.

As I wrote last year, even when companies like Wal - Mart start to focus on the environment, in the end they're still selling consumption easily as much as they're pushing more efficient light bulbs.

For me, this meant taking on the exciting viewpoint of limitless resources: we should double down on extraction technology, invest in new wells, fracking, and mining, with an end goal of bringing health, wealth, and conspicuous consumption to the planet.

The economic benefit to the end - users takes the form of savings on health care and coal consumption.

Based on IEA modelling of electricity consumption profiles by end - use, this potential represents the sum of all loads than can be shifted for every hour of the year.

As I near the end of my life, I am amazed at how much power, technology, wealth and consumption humanity has acquired, and that has transformed our lives while at the same time undermining the very life support systems on which our existence and well - being depend — air, water, soil and food, photosynthetic activity and biodiversity.

The authors argue that the carbon tax there has had little impact on fossil fuel consumption, suggesting that carbon taxes can not achieve their advertised end.

Reducing high - end consumption could have an enormous short - term impact on carbon emissions, as climate scientist Kevin Anderson is always saying.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

The fact is, we are the ones on this planet with the highest energy consumption and the end result of all this energy consumption is a steady increase of heat, carbon dioxide and other by - products into the atmosphere produced by us that is causing gradual increases in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere from year to year.

note 43, and Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2006 Report (Brussels: 2007), p. 4, with capacity factor from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Oak Ridge, TN: DOE, August 2006); Flemming Hansen, «Denmark to Increase Wind Power to 50 % by 2025, Mostly Offshore,» Renewable Energy Access, 5 December 2006; Global Wind Energy Council, «Global Wind Energy Markets Continue to Boom - 2006 Another Record Year,» press release (Brussels: 2 February 2007), with European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association, «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16.

Per capita water consumption, on a steady down slide for months has plateaued by end of summer.

The European Union is also instituting a ban on plasma TVs that are on the higher end of energy consumption.

We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's ecosystems and resources.

That 1.1 C is the IPCC low end «sensitivity» estimate which isn't a scary number at all and in fact is a great number because if that's all it is then the slight warming, mostly in the winter in the higher latitudes, is a great boon to agriculture especially when the biological effect of higher CO2 on green plant growth rates and water consumption is taken into consideration.

The issue that many opponents have is that the whale meat ends up being sold for public consumption on the streets of Japan.

With the weather conditions at sea, where strong winds constantly blow on the water's surface on most of the days of the year, and the technology rapidly becoming cheaper, hopes are springing that offshore wind turbines alone could cover well over 12 percent of the power consumption of the world's fourth largest economy by 2030 — meaning that the number of turbines would have to rise considerably from the roughly 1,200 in operation at the end of 2017.

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