Sentence examples for utilitarian rival from inspiring English sources

This gets him a theory that is as systematic as his classical average utilitarian rival and more systematic than Ross's theory, but Ross can argue that Rawls achieves system at the expense of absolutism, which many acknowledge to have counterintuitive results.

That's bizarre," said Bridget Andrews, 39, marching from the utilitarian coffee shop, past faux belle époque rival cafe Balthazar to a stretch of Broadway teeming with rush-hour foot traffic, coffee in hand and never breaking stride.

MySpace cofounder Thomas Anderson is dismissive of the utilitarian approach taken by its faster-growing rival Facebook, which focuses on the software and leaves content creation to thousands of developers who've made popular games and other diversions that keep people coming back.

He's been replaced by a former cable-company executive, which, at least symbolically, suggests that Google's grand ambitions to build a hardware-products company to rival Apple may be turning in a more drab, utilitarian direction.

After decades of giving motorcyclists the Christmas gifts they begged for — crazy-fast superbikes, heavy-metal cruisers and Afrika Korps adventure bikes — Honda and its rivals are suggesting that lumps of coal — smaller, cheaper, more utilitarian bikes — might be what you need after all.

No matter what the differences between, say, utilitarian consequentialism and Kantian deontology at the highest level, it is sometimes claimed that such rival theories will predictably reach the same results both at the level of mid-level principles and at the concrete level of particular judgments.

If utilitarian.

The first is utilitarian.

"It's very utilitarian.

Clothing, too, was utilitarian.

BATHROOMS Cramped and utilitarian.