Sentences with phrase «away on consumption»

The finances looked great after the loans, but after they had spent it away on consumption, things looked much, much, worse.

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The processor also has low power consumption and low heat generation allowing manufacturers to do away with fans and produce some of the thinnest laptops on the market.

That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance on high commodity prices and consumption by heavily indebted households.

And this comes alongside larger changes in Facebook's business model, in which Mark Zuckerberg says he is steering the business away from optimizing to «time spent» by users and toward a new focus on connections over consumption.

Unless this tax favoritism is reversed, more and more revenue will be diverted away from spending on consumption and investment to pay debt service and «financialize» the economy even more.

The negative effects of lower oil prices hit the economy right away, and the various positives - more exports because of a stronger U.S. economy and a lower dollar, and more consumption spending as households spend less on fuel - will arrive only gradually, and are of uncertain size.

The remaining items refer to deductibility of charitable contributions, gifts and bequests, which are otherwise taxable — deductibility not to the recipient nonprofit organization, but to the donor, on the rationale that what the donor gives away to a charitable organization should not be treated as income for purposes of taxation since, unlike taxable income, it does not represent the consumption or accumulation of income for the donor's personal aggrandizement.

This means that foreign loans are «a net drain on the economy, siphoning resources away from investment and consumption» (p. 36).

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Sugar consumption estimates are loosely based on expert guesses of how much of the various sweetener - laden foods bought are actually eaten, versus how much are thrown away.

«Most boys would see it as a gaming device rather than a device really for the consumption and creation of information so we really wanted to move away from that to get a platform on a system where boys would see it as a device for learning.»

It reflected straight away on my air consumption.

we also, in developed countries have too much a thirst for energy now to continue using non-renewable energy, even if we all cut back on our consumption, it is simply not going to go away now it is here, short of just turning off the power plants and going back to Victorian times.

We need to be developing an alliance with what remains of the unionized labour movement: at a minimum to support the development of training programs for fossil fuel sector workers, and more ambitiously to support the emergence of an electable political ideology that calls for the transition away from capitalism intent on endless growth in consumption.

Experts agree that a shift in our energy and consumption is necessary to avert catastrophe brought on by global warming, yet there is strong resistance to a major move away from a coal - fired electricity and oil - based economy to one based on alternative sources of renewable energy.

Invest in places that are committed to advancing ecological resilience, reducing resource consumption, and that will help to shift the economy away from dependence on extractive industries, in particular the fossil fuels industry.

IMO, it would be logical to turn the Climate debate away from climate fortune telling and focus instead on the true cause of the problems associated with power generation and consumption.

By focusing on generating clean electricity, the Kingdom can move away from a reliance on domestic consumption of fossil fuels for electricity and use the saved resources to strengthen its exports.

The economy benefits from the removal of a myriad of distortions and crony give - aways, while also potentially benefiting from the replacement of a consumption tax on labor with a consumption tax on fuel.

After experiencing the impact of our consumer society on our environment first - hand during my recent sailing trip with the 5 Gyres project, visiting miles of ocean trash, the question hit me: Why can't we get away from our ridiculous consumption of dispos

But as people have moved from the countryside to the cities, and as China's economic planners focus more on bolstering domestic consumption and moving away from export - led growth, income inequality has increased — along with the carbon footprint of those in urban areas.

Moreover, it will enable the country to modernise its financial system and move away from its precarious reliance on debt - driven, export - led growth to an economy based on services and consumption, therefore lifting the standard of living and more importantly the quality of life for ordinary Chinese.