Search advertisements, the text links on the results pages of search engines, charge advertisers only when a user actually clicks, thus expressing an interest.
By becoming directly involved with a brand, they gain a feeling of influence and control, while seeing that their input actually matters – thus this encourages them to continue to engage.
She had written a report of the tennis club's annual dinner without actually attending, thus missing the crucial fact that the after-dinner speaker had dropped dead mid-speech.
This nicely clever term for a newly insecure socioeconomic class was coined a few years ago by the sociologist Guy Standing, and came to prominence this April when everyone was taking the BBC's online class survey instead of actually working, thus making them more likely to join the precariat if they weren't already in it.
Google is said to be building a so-called 'semantic index' that would parse what each app can actually do, thus improving search suggestions, while also beefing up Google Now's predictive powers.
Here's a better idea — a market mechanism that would determine once and for all not only who is right, but what the market-clearing price for skilled immigrant labor actually is, thus informing future immigration policy formation.
Despite the large increase in apprenticeship registrations, the proportion of registered apprentices completing their programs has actually fallen; thus, the increase in completions has not kept pace with the growth in registrations.
Although this technique sounds similar to net present value (NPV), real options only have value when the decision to invest is actually made, thus committing the firm to an irreversible cost.
Market research had revealed that many customers thought Concorde was more expensive than it actually was; thus ticket prices were progressively raised to match these perceptions.
1. Be born into a family that's never had an actor in it that way they think everything you do is cooler than it actually is, thus giving you a false sense of confidence.
