Sentences with phrase «consumed by millions»

Within a decade, Gynostemma was being consumed by millions of Asians as a tonic tea.

Fish oil supplements are very commonly consumed by millions of people all over the world.

The things that would be really important like household products that might cause harm, it gets lost in the shuffle because there's almost too much information... \ [Biotech foods \] have been used for 20 years in 29 countries and consumed by millions and millions of people including pregnant women and children over nearly two decades.»

This cocktail is consumed by millions daily and can be made in many different styles and flavors.

Not exact matches

Such withdrawals aren't subject to review by the compact's governing bodies, the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body, as long as the withdrawal consumes less than 5 million gallons daily.

• Stateless, a Boulder, Colo. - based firm allowing network functions to be consumed through the «as a service» model, raised $ 1.4 million in a seed round led by Speedinvest and was joined by investors including Techstars, EVO Venture Partners, PV Ventures, and Service Provider Capital.

This extraordinary beverage that helps kick - start people's days is consumed by over 60 % of Americans, or over 190 million people.

Much of the $ 1 million settlement Schuback had received from the accident was consumed by legal and medical bills.

The 104 - page OPEC report finds that there will be greater demand for the group's oil in 2016, with customers consuming an average of 31.65 million barrels a day throughout the year because the market will be «supply - driven» as competitors, beset by low prices, continue to cut back severely on capital expenditures ranging from exploration to new drilling.

We are consumed by our jobs, as psychiatrists, divorce lawyers, and millions of latchkey children know all too well, and are locked into an endless pursuit of the power, cash, status, and pleasure that promise «personal fulfillment» and happiness.

In Animal Liberation, which has sold half a million copies, Singer preaches against eating meat, consuming eggs or milk produced by maltreated birds, and wearing leather or fur.

A magazine article disputed this assertion by pointing out that despite consuming 385 million gallons of beer per year (more than 20 gallons for every man, woman, and child), Australia ranked a poor seventh in per - capita beer consumption, behind the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Austria, Britain, and Belgium.

Dataessentials recently reported that each day, iced coffee is consumed by roughly 30 million adult Americans.

«We're finding that most people are consuming Nestle Professional Caribbean products outside of the home, and that number is www.nestleprofessional.com growing by double digits each year,» says Nelson Revenues: $ 36 million Employees: 102 Peña, business manager for the Caribbean.

Department of Agriculturein January unveiled new rules aimed at improving the health standards of federally - funded meals consumed by about 32 million American schoolchildren.

And they were certainly seen: Rospars said that YouTube viewers consumed A BILLION MINUTES of Obama campaign videos by the end of the campaign, and according to YouTube's Steve Grove, the campaign's 1800 separate videos were viewed 100 million times in total.

Our Watershed team ensures that the drinking water consumed by nine million residents of New York City, Westchester, Orange and Ulster County remains of high quality.

Currently, roughly 76 percent of the city's $ 36.8 million budget is consumed by obligatory expenses, including mandatory payments into the state pension fund and the Safety Net welfare program.

A thorough scoping process, according to the letter, «will require time - consuming research by municipalities and the public to analyze the proposal and identify potential impacts on local land, water and air resources, cultural, historic and community resources and economic development... broad public input in the SEQR process is vital, given the millions of people potentially impacted by this project.»

The researchers estimate that from 1975 to 2015, the yearly biomass of chinook salmon consumed by pinnipeds (sea lions and harbor seals) and killer whales increased from 6,100 to 15,200 metric tons, and from five to 31.5 million individual salmon.

Slowly consuming the iron in a single grain, these bacteria could get by for a million years before exhausting their food supply; at colder temperatures, where metabolic demands are lower, they might survive hundreds of millions of years.

All told, by Luyssaert's calculations the relatively small remaining stands of old - growth forests in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as well as Canada and Russia consume «8 to 20 percent of the global terrestrial carbon sink,» or roughly 440.9 million tons (0.4 gigatonnes) of carbon per year.

Are molecular meddlings — from the man - made pig and the gene - whacked salmon to the genetically modified soy that hundreds of millions of us consume each day in cookies, crackers, candy bars, and sodas — are these transformations condoned by the tools nature itself has given us, or are they freaks and abominations?

Barring a worldwide recession, the U.S. Energy Information Administration believes the world will be consuming around 110 million barrels a day by the year 2020.

Research by Canada's Forest Service found that in 2013, the nation saw more than 10 million acres consumed in wildfires.

«The nine plants approved by the government — most of which are located in desert or semi-desert regions in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia — will consume more than 200 million tons of water annually and could worsen water shortages in areas that already are under significant water stress.»

So while India gained 17 million people in that year and the U.S. gained three million, by this simplified math the U.S. growth in population counted for the equivalent of an additional 25.6 million tons of oil consumed, whereas India's much greater growth counted for only 6.6 million additional tons.

The new supercomputer is powered by more than 10.6 million processor chips, which were designed and built in China, and consumes 15.4 megawatts (MW) of power.

«If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million,» reports ecologist David Pimentel of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

The Bush administration and a consortium of tech companies Tuesday vowed to drive down government and corporate data center energy use by 10 percent by 2011, saving about 10 billion kilowatt - hours, or roughly the amount of energy consumed by one million U.S. households annually.

A report by Western Resource Advocates notes that «thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 - approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.»

If Americans in the highest - impact group shifted their diets to align with the U.S. average — by consuming fewer overall calories and relying less on meat — the one - day greenhouse - gas emissions reduction would be equivalent to eliminating 661 million passenger - vehicle miles, according to the researchers.

In theory, screens with picture elements switched on and off by light beams could be thinner and consume less power than today's LCDs, which must contain wiring for up to one million transistors.

Estimates of these costs range from $ 100 - million to $ 1.2 - billion for each new drug that makes it to market, and a substantial chunk of this funding is consumed by establishing that a drug is both safe and effective.

Norbert Schulz and Nicola Omodei discuss the recent detection of a dying star igniting the most powerful blast ever seen — something so powerful it radiated energy that was 500 million times that of visible light and how scientists have discovered that a familiar sight in the skies is actually our earliest view yet of a star being consumed by the remnant of a nearby exploded star.

Reducing the energy consumed by greenhouses has become a priority as the global use of greenhouses for food production has increased six-fold over the past 20 years to more than 9 million acres today — roughly twice the size of New Jersey, according to Loik.

The Roundup Ready Soybean is the world's No. 1 GM crop and has been planted on hundreds of millions of hectares without incident and consumed by humans and animals for a dozen years without any observable adverse effect.

Its operational life was defined by the rate at which it consumed its coolant, and it had to be shut down on Nov. 21, 1983, by which time it had noted over a quarter of a million sources.

But, considering that whey is found in cheese and milk and these are two very commonly consumed products by millions of pregnant women, it is unlikely to be an issue.

I've talked about this a million time before, but if you aren't creating a consistent «calorie surplus» every day by consuming more calories than you burn, you are NOT going to gain any appreciable amount of muscle.

«About one - third (or 1 million) of your SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphism] are dedicated solely to the job of determining how effectively your enzymes are controlled by the nutrients you consume.»

Before iovation, the primary way in which Mate1 made connections between millions of customer accounts was by looking at email addresses, names, photographs, or physical addresses, which is extremely time consuming.

Its story of a sadistic plutocrat who likes to punish women in his sex dungeon and insist that they sign nondisclosure agreements accounts for millions of book sales and a billion - dollar movie franchise, consumed eagerly by an enthusiastic female audience.

The cameras were so far away that I forgot I was participating in a million - viewer spectacle, that my experience, my joy and pain, were being consumed by the masses, though I was aware enough to realize that everybody in the audience was crying.

With more than 13 million downloads of Adobe Digital Editions, a free software application for acquiring, managing and reading ebooks, users can transfer their digital content to their netbooks and desktops, and by taking advantage of a growing number of mobile applications, users can also consume ebooks from Google eBooks on tablets like the iPad.

Indeed, in 1985 cats passed dogs as the most popular American pets, and according to a survey by the Pet Industry Advisory Council, there were 54.2 million pet dogs in the country last year and 63 million cats, enough to consume $ 600 million to $ 700 million worth of clay - based cat box litter, perhaps a third of it Kitty Litter and subsidiary brands created by Mr. Lowe.

It is estimated that more than 2 million dogs are consumed in South Korea each year, supplied by hundreds, even thousands of farms (an official census of how many actually operate in the country has never been performed).

And now it's power by 32,256 LEDs from Philips which can create a palette of more than 16 million colors — blue and green in honor of Earth Day — consuming a similar amount of energy every hour as about two home ovens.

And while «we» is meant to include the millions of new people every year, even fewer people (suggested by one commenter) wouldn't necessarily solve the problems because each of us could and probably would just consume more.

And it makes a relatively tiny dent in total emissions: as noted by CBS study predicts it will decrease US gas consumption by 160 million gallons a year, when US motorists consume 378 million gallons of gas every day.