Sentences with phrase «for ordinary consumers»

This isn't for ordinary consumers, though; you have to be at a school.

Wind power a bonanza for power corporations on Christmas, but meant a bad day for ordinary consumers

In a press release, City Council Member Leroy Comrie explains the latest developments in a hearing regarding a piece of legislation that will increase the availability of show tickets for ordinary consumers.

«For the ordinary consumer, these rates are completely unaffordable,» said Michael Geist, a law professor at the University of Ottawa.

Similar to how a pack of M&M;'s states they were manufactured in a plant that processes peanuts, future items containing RFID tags should make it easy for the ordinary consumer to know whether the item is tagged.»

However, there's also a lot of discussion of health care in the press these days, and while a lot of it has to do with pricing, it's also about concerns about the increasing total cost of health care for the ordinary consumer, which is one of the main problems we face in the drug industry.

Not exact matches

It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, even ordinary consumers have been unwittingly conscripted for this purpose — in this case, with no pay at all.

«It's more important than ever that consumers and taxpayers have strong advocates like Dennis and Better Markets to stand up for ordinary Americans.»

Since then, divestment has become a grassroots movement to urge ordinary consumers to invest their retirement savings in ethical ways, and even to use them as vehicles for political change, such as with the divestment movement targeting fossil fuels.

Debuting today, the Ant Fortune app is set up as a one - stop platform for China's vast population of ordinary consumers who have limited options when it comes to money management and investment.

He had an uncanny sixth sense about what consumers wanted, an unmatched ability to adapt existing technology and turn it into something new, and a commitment to quality that turned ordinary Apple customers into fans for life.

WWF is holding a 1 - day Symposium on Responsible Consumption of Tuna here tomorrow where it hopes that government officials, seafood industry representatives, and ordinary consumers will listen to talks on how overfishing, capturing juvenile tunas for fish farming, and poor fisheries management has driven bluefin stocks to 15 % of historical levels.

It is of more use for food manufacturers than as an ordinary sweetener for the consumer, it's just not intense enough.

It's a comfortable shoe made for consumers that need to be on their feet all day but still likes like an ordinary tennis shoe.

CES 2011 Acer roster of Android smartphones grew by two handsets this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), one a compact affair for ordinary punters, the other a more sober Qwerty keyboard BlackBerry wannabe.

Many consumers became disappointed when negative credit information remained on their credit reports for the usual legal time periods, which range from three to seven years for ordinary debts, and can be as much as 10 years for bankruptcies.

While most people are likely to think of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as the agency that fines big banks for large - scale offenses, the bureau also handles ordinary day - to - day problems facing consumers.

Ordinary consumer bank loans are handy as home improvement loans, especially for those who need to borrow relatively small amounts of money without much paperwork or delay.

As the brand prepares to take its maiden voyage into the aviation sector, Nick Britton, Guinness senior brand manager commented: «Whether it is brewing the perfect pint or flying our consumers by private jet to the home of Guinness, we never settle for the ordinary.»

«Because Halo 3 is not fit for either its ordinary purpose or for the particular purposes for which it was sold, defendants have breached the statutorily implied warranties of the Song - Beverly Consumer Warranty Act.»

Launched in 1997, Sony's Net Yaroze project aimed to allow ordinary consumers to develop games for the biggest selling console of the time: the original PlayStation.

Yea, being forced by law to taking off my shoes at the airport and having a mandated carbon footprint setoff tax imposed on ordinary consumers are the same illusions of government protection in exchange for the certainty of lost liberty.

Holding ordinary consumers in the developed world responsible on an individual basis for the continued dominance of fossil fuels either implicitly or explicitly is unfair and unrealistic.

Politicians are unwilling to seek meaningful emission targets, corporations are fundamentally committed to economic growth at all costs, and even ordinary citizens refuse to sacrifice their consumer lives for the promise of a stable climate.

The purpose of this furniture was trying to locate a material that would break with the ordinary consumer's habitus, in order to increase consumers» perceptions about what materials can be used for furniture today.

Either way the the ordinary citizen / taxpayer / consumer winds up paying the court resource freight for the corporate / auto insurer freeloaders.

PIAC seeks to represent and advocate on behalf of ordinary consumers, in particular vulnerable consumers, concerning the rates, policies, rules and regulations associated with the delivery of these services with a view to ensuring principles of access and affordability and fair treatment for the constituencies it tries to serve.

A claim for strict products liability requires proof, in the alternative, either of the ordinary consumer's expectations or of the risk - utility of a product.

[67] The general impression test provided for in s. 218 C.P.A. must be applied from a perspective similar to that of «ordinary hurried purchasers», that is, consumers who take no more than ordinary care to observe that which is staring them in the face upon their first contact with an advertisement.

This Adjusted Matrix has two significant differences from the ordinary Laffey Matrix: (1) it is geared to the national Consumer Price Index specific to legal services; and (2) it uses 1988 - 1989 (rather than 1981 - 1982) rates for the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area developed in response to the remand in Save Our Cumberland Mountains v. Hodel, 857 F. 2d 1516 (D.C. Cir.

It seems that those whose job it is to write the tax code understand the importance of life insurance just as well as ordinary consumers, and those legislators have written a number of special considerations into the tax code for life insurance policies and life insurance proceeds.

Members are licensed to use the terms REALTOR ® and the REALTOR ® logos only in forms that will emphasize the status, significance and special meaning of the trademarks for the consumer, and distinguish them from words of ordinary use.

In fact, it is the closest thing must ordinary Canadians get to real capitalism (except for yard sales I suppose) just my 2 cents as a consumer

«For tentative buyers, first - hand experience like test drives, short - term leasing or daily rentals will be crucial when making future purchasing decisions,» says Brauer, who notes that ordinary consumers were more open to the idea of handing control over to a computer once they'd had experience with cars that have some level of autonomy.