Sentence examples for threshold of consumer from inspiring English sources

Using hardware only slightly above the threshold of consumer level, we built a virtual environment (VE) aimed at scientific visualization with the lowest possible space requirements (smaller than a cube with 2 m edge length in total) and budget (approximately below 30.000 €).

As with Groupon, deals only become active once a minimum threshold of consumers agree to purchase the item or service, but each deal lasts for a week (versus the 24-hour time-limit on Groupon).

In the evolution of the retail industry, this change signals a shift in what both retailers believe to be the threshold for consumer abandonment.

A "more concerted" effort was needed by the government to tackle the problem, he suggested, including reducing the threshold for the level of consumer "distress" required to trigger an investigation.

Student loan dept in the U.S. hit the trillion-dollar threshold this year, pushing past most other forms of consumer debt (namely credit cards and car loans).

Last month, after Jay-Z announced that Samsung would give away one million copies of the album through an Android app,  Billboard disqualified those copies  from his charting sales total because they did not meet the magazine's threshold of $3.49 cost to the consumer, a rule instituted two years ago after Amazon sold Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" for 99 cents.

"The overwhelming majority of results, over 99 percent, have come back negative for the presence of horse DNA above the threshold of 1 percent, which is reassuring for consumers," said Catherine Brown, the agency's chief executive.

Lack of consumer demand?

High levels of consumer confidence.

Imports of consumer goods rose by $2.7 billion.

When you allow so-called smaller businesses to escape enforcement of consumer protection rules, you encourage the creation of companies and other entities that are just small enough to escape the enforcement threshold.