class of consumers

Apple is often credited for defining a new class of consumer device.

Other American companies are aiming at Indonesia's emerging middle class of consumers.

A new class of consumers, the bourgeoisie, emerged as a strong market for wine and other culinary products.

In the middle is the most vulnerable class of consumers, children, typically under age 3, who are most likely to swallow small objects.

Speciality goods are a class of consumer goods.

As above, quantity "discounts", or non-linear pricing, is a means by which suppliers use consumer preference to distinguish classes of consumers.

In some circumstances, the demands of different classes of consumers will encourage suppliers to ignore one or more classes and target entirely to the rest.

But the typical liquid crystal displays found on the new class of consumer e-books typically have resolutions of less than 100 dots per inch.

Ratemaking is political because the product is determined to be a social necessity and rates must be fair across different classes of consumers.

In Brazil, Latin America's largest market, with 160 million people, the end of hyperinflation created a growing class of consumers, many of them blue-collar workers.

Andrea Dworkin wrote, "erotica is simply high-class pornography: better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer."

Recent changes to Spanish civil procedure rules include the introduction of a quasi-class action right for certain consumer associations to claim damages on behalf of unidentified classes of consumers.

The standard incidence assumptions may be related to the simple fixed-factor, two-sector model discussed in Lecture 6 (Section 6-5), where there are two classes of consumer (with homothetic utility functions).

High-end audio is a class of consumer home audio equipment marketed to audio enthusiasts on the basis of high price or quality, and esoteric or novel sound reproduction technologies.

As once-rampant inflation was brought down to negligible levels, Ms. Pettinari joined an emerging class of consumers, whose salaries for the first time maintained their purchasing power from one paycheck to the next.

Mr. Wei, Navio's president, predicted that applications that merged technologies like inexpensive global-positioning satellite receivers with the information available through the Internet would create a new class of consumer devices.

A Ridgway representative was among importers who met at the London Tavern in March 1851 to condemn the high price and the adulteration of coffee sold to "the lower class of consumer".

The relative distribution of the benefits of a subsidy may be studied with respect to different classes or groups of beneficiaries such as consumers and producers, as also between different classes of consumers and producers.

But if China's emerging class of consumers put their mind to it - up to 800 million of them, compared with roughly 200 million in the USA - their buying power will shape the needs and demands of the rest of the world.

Regarding a mark composed of multiple words, any perceptible difference between the combination of words and the normal parlance of the relevant class of consumers may demonstrate a sufficient level of distinctiveness so as to enable the sign or indication to be registered as a trade mark.

On August 24, 2011, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York approved a $180 million settlement to resolve antitrust claims brought by a class of consumers, represented by Milberg, against Sirius XM Radio.

"The BBX product RIM has launched possesses exactly the same name as Plaintiff's BBX mark, and is being marketed to the same class of consumers, within the same channel of trade," wrote District Judge William Johnson in his decision.

Any perceptible difference between the combination of words submitted for registration and the terms used in common parlance of the relevant class of consumers to designate the goods or services or their essential characteristics is apt to confer distinctive character on the word combination enabling it to be registered as a trade mark.

Between 1970 and 1990, PLANASA expanded coverage from 45% to 95% for water and 24% to 42% for sanitation among urban residents Due to their larger territorial scope, state water companies were able to cross-subsidize between different classes of consumers, especially between grossly disparate neighboring municipalities.

However, because eroticism is wholly dependent on the viewer's culture and personal tastes pertaining to what, exactly, defines the erotic, critics have often confused eroticism with pornography, going so far as to say: "[Eroticism] is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer."