“We can start by reducing our energy consumption and turning to renewable resources.”

“Use of earthenware in India is governed by concepts of ritual purity surrounding the consumption of food and drink.”

“They were so undernourished that they easily became ill from consumption, fevers, pestilence, and a variety of other disorders.”

“These laws also provide the consumer with detailed information on the origin and quality of the product.”

“The area is known for extensive trading in livestock, hides and skins, khat, cereals, and consumer durables.”

“He says there was no sign yet that consumer demand in Scotland was abating.”

“It is they who shoved us into wanton consumerism, into a society in which we must maintain a champagne lifestyle on mauby pockets.”

“Sloan's drive toward consumerism in the auto industry has seemingly reached its pinnacle.”

“Indeed, contemporary Jeremiahs were only too quick to seize on the corrupting consequences of consumerism.”

“As a consequence of all this, the relations of literacy and citizenship must be complemented by looking also at reading and consumership.”

“And although Rawesome is held up by those who mourn it as a paradigm of intimate, enlightened consumership, its members may have known less about the origins of their food than they thought.”

“I go to Simon's office, find pencil and paper, and make list of consumptions.”

“First, we gathered together information on our various consumptions, by site and by department.”

“This Cornish brewery has one of the lowest water consumptions in a shockingly water-thirsty industry.”

“But happily that doesn't mean that it or the hotel is full of spluttering Keatsian consumptives nor that the spa is especially clinical in feel.”

“She performs abortions in secret, supports suffrage, and caters to consumptives and TB sufferers when few other boarding-house establishments will take them.”

“The real number of consumptives whose disease originates in this manner can never be known.”

“The third Ergo division is Ergo IT products, which provides a wide range of computer consumables and network-related products.”

“Kodak really had to make the change since they are primarily in the business of selling consumables.”

“This included consumables, such as water bladders, chlorine, cleaning tools and hygiene education materials.”

“Many consumers just preferred the SUV image and fun over the minivan and increasingly didn't even explore wagons.”

“If cable companies wall consumers up in a walled garden and just allow them to order a pizza, they won't get very far.”

“But the increased costs of maintaining health and safety at abattoirs means consumers are unlikely to benefit.”