1.   A great nation consumed with high living, new technology and entertaining eye candy.

2.   The gasoline market reflects the fact that when the economic engine slows down, the nation consumes less fuel.

3.   Burnham had Guyanans eating rice bread at one point when he banned wheat imports in his determination to make the nation consume only what it produced.

4.   But the Nordic nation still consumes plenty of vodka, especially in connection with public holidays such as Christmas, New Year and Midsummer.

5.   Rich nations consumed too many resources while poor nations destroyed the environment trying to make economic progress.

6.   The move is part of an all-out campaign to change the way the nation consumes oil amid an economic crisis which has markedly pushed up petrol prices.

7.   Undeniably, a nation can only consume a certain amount of what it produces, beyond which it will have to export.