Sentences with phrase «by consumption rather»

It is likely to be tough, but China's new leadership needs to do less and not more if it wants an economy driven by consumption rather than investment and exports.

Not exact matches

«Rather, growth in disposable income (and thus in consumption) has been sustained since last year by another $ 1.4 trillion in tax cuts and extended transfer payments, implying another $ 1.4 trillion of public debt.»

Because capital exports are just the obverse of a current account surplus, this meant that after spending much of the 1990s in deficit, Germany's excess production, caused not by a surge in production but rather a decline in consumption, was resolved by the country's running a current account surplus.

Some analysts have suggested that the relatively low level of savings has helped consumption, though much of the consumption gains seen over the last year seem to be financed rather than supported by cash.

In this world, gratitude to the past and obligations to the future are replaced by a near - universal pursuit of immediate gratification: Culture, rather than imparting the wisdom and experience of the past toward the end of cultivating virtues of self - restraint and civility, instead becomes synonymous with hedonic titillation, visceral crudeness, and distraction, all oriented toward promoting a culture of consumption, appetite, and detachment.

They are: rationalization, which tends toward sterile intellectualization and robs life of its character and vitality; estheticism, which cuts off true communication by maintaining an esthetic distance in order to dominate, rather than to support, others; capitalism, which tends to deper - sonalize people by providing for their hedonistic needs in order to support production and consumption regardless of its human utility; and nationalism, which tends to make national things sacred and in doing so to create idols out of them.31.

As a result, rather joining the passive posture of consumption, we find ourselves surrounded by local economic, political and educational opportunities.

The luxury food market is dominated by the food service segment (i.e. for consumption in restaurants and hotels) rather than the retail segment, although opportunities in retail are growing.45

First identified by William Jevons in 1865 — when he noticed more efficient engines increased rather than reduced coal use, as engines were put into more widespread use — the rebound effect for higher yields could see food prices drop, encouraging greater consumption, more food waste and even more conversion of habitats to farmland.

But even more damning is that the formulation Lomborg offers now, following criticism that he muddled the point, is still not unambiguous: sometimes projected resource lifetimes are measured based on extrapolating a constant rate of growth of consumption into the future starting «from the year discussed», rather than assuming a constant consumption rate, and sometimes they are measured «from the year discussed» by assuming that the consumption rate is following a bell - shaped curve (the famous «Hubbert's pimple»).4

The researchers did find that lionfish populations were lower in protected reefs, attributing that to targeted removal by reef managers, rather than consumption by large fishes in the protected areas.

When she feels triggered to stress eat she often finds it easier to just call or text a friend rather than go to the trouble of uncovering the candy. An earlier Cornell study found that simply placing candy in a desk drawer rather than on the desktop curbed calorie consumption by 25 %.

The Atkins diet is like throwing gasoline on the fire by increasing rather than decreasing the consumptions of foods that are the root cause of the majority of our major chronic diseases.

I know many people are beginning to blindly follow this idea that everyone has an individual diet preference, while i personally adhere to the belief that individuality in diet is governed by individual pathology; though we all have genetic differences i don't think they are large enough to govern major differences in food consumption (i.e. kitavans don't eat potatoes because they have some proclivity towards them, rather it's because that's all that is available)

These two oddities strongly suggest that the appearance of negative health outcomes from protein is due to confounding factors — behaviors or foods associated with animal protein consumption in middle age, rather than effects caused by the protein itself.

In most cases around the world, fat stores increase because of sugar rather than by natural fat consumption.

Rather than memorizing the rules of your diet and tracking your daily food consumption and workout routine by hand, use an app to make the diet meal plan truly yours.

Unfortunately, the autoimmune diseases some speculate are caused by legume lectins appear to occur more frequently in nations like the U.S., where legume consumption is rather low, than in Asian nations, where legume consumption is higher.»

Which is to say... wouldn't it be more logical as well as potentially profitable for Bristol to do what it did best [incredibly bespoke, infinitely repairable all but anonymous Grand Tourers capable of dealing with all road conditions including several inches of water created for driving rather than displaying one's conspicuous consumption] by bringing the much loved and vaunted 411 into the 21st century rather than going down Alice's Rabbit Hole of reviving the Roadster / Speedster which at best even amongst Bristol lovers had a very limited appeal as well as customer base?

Several steps can be taken to prevent GDV or its recurrence, including: Avoiding strenuous exercise by the dog after eating and drinking Slowing the dog's rate of food consumption Feeding frequent small portions to the dog rather than infrequent larger portions

Director of Critical Studies and MA / PhD programs in UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Sylvia Lavin engages artists, architects, and curators in a series of lively discussions on how cities are increasingly molded by images rather than buildings; on whether art and architecture are converging to form an integrated type of cultural consumption; and if the concept of the masterpiece has finally been destroyed by the sheer quantity of global design production.

The exhibition, which includes work by Alex Da Corte, Trevor Reese, and Justin Visnesky, focuses on «the landscape of a production and consumption based society» where «artists have taken on the role of editor rather than creator... [t] hrough selecting, documenting and ultimately placing objects in an art context.»

Taking the form of a constantly reworked potential text, it comprises a series of theoretical and fictional narratives that evolve from Gillick's research of past and present evaluations of the aesthetics of social systems by focusing on modes of production rather than consumption.

However, rather than being perceived as passive objects of male pleasure as stereotyped by the pornography industry, the women here are seen as active protagonists; they are given agency and the masculine element, symbolised by phallic shaped fruits and meats, becomes an object for their consumption.

Matthew Connors captures historic uprisings that speak to the interests of an artist rather than a reporter, as Lisa Sanditz's lush landscape paintings reveal environmental crisis created by endless consumption and misuse.

The key challenges are to restructure existing energy tax systems to directly target the source of environmental harm (e.g., by taxing emissions or driving on busy roads rather than electricity consumption or vehicle sales), to better align tax levels with the scale of environmental harm, and to overcome practical challenges of higher energy and transportation costs.

Climate change advocates will see it as a way to curb the consumption of fossil fuels, in part by narrowing the competitive gap with renewables; their opponents will see such a tax as meeting a long - held conservative view that it is more growth - friendly to tax consumption rather than the proceeds of work and risk - taking, to be paired with environmentalists» agreement to substitute the tax for the EPA's regulations.

But the process and programmes by which we quantify the energy consumption of dwellings are, in my opinion, rather blunt instruments and the comfort deficit highlighted above will almost certainly guarantee that the real energy consumption (and carbon emissions) of your dwelling will be considerably higher than that suggested on your energy label.

Since the fishing is presumably intended for animal feed in the developed world, rather than human consumption, surely this could be stopped by international agreement without disastrous effect on any national economies.

But curbing rampant energy consumption by any real measure may just mean taking this route, rather than waiting for consumers to shift their thinking.

What distinguishes this book from others on the topic is MacKay's insistence on using numbers rather than adjectives to delineate the problem, leading to conclusions such as: «To provide one quarter of [the U.K.] current energy consumption by growing energy crops, for example, would require 75 % of Britain to be covered with biomass plantations.»

A recent opinion piece in the New Scientist, ««Right to dry» could wean Americans off consumption,» by Alexander Lee, talks about how much energy could be saved if we dried our clothes on a line rather than in a tumble dryer, and about the various property rules and regs that restrict or outright forbid clotheslines.

Although previous research on younger couples revealed that discordant heavy drinking (rather than only drinking status) is associated with lower marital satisfaction and divorce (Leonard et al., 2014; Mudar et al., 2001), the present study contributes to the literature by showing that concordance on drinking status (i.e., drinker vs. no drinker) appears to be more important for negative marital relationship quality among older couples than frequency or quantity of consumption.