Example collocations logo

Usage in sentence

247 examples of Usage in a sentence

Uneven and unregulated antibiotic usage is one of the most important reasons behind the AMR crisis.
Although the commercial costs of wind and solar are declining, these technologies still need large subsidies and usage mandates to account for less than 3% of global energy production.
According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, the most digitized sectors – ranked by 18 metrics on digital assets, digital usage, and digital workforce – enjoy significantly higher profit margins than traditional sectors.
Much of that, moreover, includes the usage of munitions that already exist, implying that little or no stimulus will be provided to today's economy.
Given that a non-renewable resource forms the basis of many plastic products – most of which will not last long – current plastics usage patterns are not sustainable.
Open data usage can also promote transparency and build trust in government decision-making and official policies.
This forgotten term, which dropped out of usage following World War II, referred to heavy taxation on sudden increases in profits.
It is perhaps telling that the “progress charts” prepared by the United Nations Development Program, the agency charged with reporting on progress toward achieving the MDGs, track only Internet usage under that goal.
But their usage varies widely – from just 4.8% of young women in Chad to 84.6% in China – reflecting differences in cost, availability, and cultural norms.
Over the next few decades, almost all of the world’s growth in energy consumption, urbanization, automobile usage, airline travel, and carbon emissions will come from emerging economies.
Significant wind and solar usage reduces the number of hours gas and coal generation operates; with large fixed costs, this makes every kWh more expensive.
For example, in 2018 alone, the UK will pay nearly £1 billion ($1.5 billion), mostly to fossil-fuel-based generators, to keep backup capacity available for peak power usage.
Indeed, Britain has, to all intents and purposes, practically decriminalized marijuana usage.
But the lion’s share of these investments result in lower energy usage, and thus reduced energy costs.
Everyday it is consulted by 7% of all 1.2 billion Internet users, and its rate of usage is growing faster than that of Internet usage as a whole.
The second “marijuana moment” occurred in the US, where the states of Washington and Colorado have entered the final stages of fully legalizing marijuana usage, following popular referenda last November.
Perhaps Bitcoin speculators are betting that there will always be a consortium of rogue states allowing anonymous Bitcoin usage, or even state actors such as North Korea that will exploit it.
Such usage, however, has serious limitations.
As computing power increases, computer usage continues to expand to new applications.
China’s microblogs, or social networks, where usage tends be most intense, were estimated to have approximately 270 million users as of late 2011.
Surging Chinese Internet usage could well facilitate the pro-consumption initiatives of the recently enacted 12th Five-Year Plan.
The term “too big to fail” dates back several decades, but it entered wide usage in the aftermath of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.
As Thomas L. Friedman and I write in our new book That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, America’s future depends on meeting four major challenges: globalization, the revolution in information technology, America’s rapidly growing deficits and debt, and its pattern of energy usage.
Multinational companies and Western countries – both of which stand to benefit greatly from Asia’s increasing consumption – have encouraged Asians to aspire to a Western standard of living, with its high energy usage, electronic toys, and meat-heavy diet.
When my parents visited the United States for the first time, I didn’t hear the end of their shock at the excess they saw – from the wastage of paper napkins and plastic cutlery at fast-food restaurants to the average household’s usage of cars and electricity.
Several changes are needed to ensure that growth in EV usage and sales continues.
The knee-jerk rejection of nuclear power by some EU member countries has led to sharp increases in coal usage.
Addressing drug use through criminalization and rehabilitation centers does nothing to curb demand, however, and usage rates have failed to decline.
Nevertheless, electricity usage has reached near-record levels.
The plan establishes a framework for raising awareness of the problem, collecting more data, developing new drugs and diagnostic tools, encouraging practices to reduce infections, optimizing antibiotic usage, and investing in countries’ health-care and sanitation capacities.
Back