Sentence examples for a sort of consumer from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the pro-cloning bioethicists I talked to often resorted to a sort of consumer logic: there's a market out there that wants this, and who am I to say they can't have it?

Tablets with built-in 3G have been a sort of consumer visibility pilot program for widespread deployment of non-phone devices on mobile networks.

Despite much talk of point-of-care chips able to analyse blood samples in the doctor's office, at the hospital bed or even in the home, the technology is a long way from any sort of consumer product.

Today, they provoke a sort of impotent consumer hatred — even high-end breast pumps are noisy, bulky, and awkward to use, and pumping is sometimes painful, often boring, and never dignified.

It's been doing technical investigation of crowdfunding projects — acting as a sort of unofficial consumer watchdog for crowdfunding — for about a year.

As with all new payment schemes, however, Dorsey said he believes that ushering in a new sort of consumer behavior will take a broad stretch of time.

If you hold dear the belief that spending money on anything beyond pure function is a wasteful indulgence -- if, in short, you're a Timex sort of consumer -- you will probably never get the point of the Chevrolet SSR.

And it aims at a different sort of consumer.

The past two years, however, have seen the rise of a new sort of consumer.

Many people aren't familiar with the brand "Quixey" because, unlike Apple-acquired app search service Chomp, Quixey doesn't offer any sort of consumer-facing service.

"We're seeing a sort of handover from consumer spending to capital spending," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics.