Spoken language is in itself a serial data type: it must be consumed in time from front to back.
On the technology side, cloud based services and electronic payment methods such as PayPal, Google Wallet and mobile payment enable these services to be consumed any time, any place.
He also says that because people who comment on articles are almost by definition more engaged in the content, advertisers are finding that Disqus readers outdo rival traffic driving sources such as Facebook, Outbrain, Twitter, and StumbleUpon by two to three times in pages consumed, time spend, and number of comments and article shares.
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That changed in 2002 when, for the first time, China consumed more than America.
But they "acknowledge that at the time Stilnox was consumed it had been recently prohibited for use".
And yet for the majority of that electricity, the consumer knew neither the price nor the value at the time it was consumed.
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Last year, the average person consumed more than half their media time via peer-to-peer.
The products "could cause serious health problems if consumed over a long period of time, " he said.
However, services are usually time bound, inseparably delivered by the vendor and received by the purchaser, simultaneously rendered and consumed, irreversibly consumed by the purchaser, and unique in terms of time, place and other surrounding circumstances.
These are usually consumed mid-afternoon, a perfect time to revive flagging spirits.
More than 99 percent of my time on this issue is consumed by the difficult task of trying to convince policy makers that tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy should be celebrated rather than persecuted.
Benedict is a teaching pope, a man who prefers the life of the mind to the nuts and bolts of government, yet an enormous share of his time and energy has been consumed trying to put out internal fires.
Yet, at the same time, most of the commonly consumed media in the U.S. is still decidedly liberal.
All of our leadership time as local public officials is consumed with this.
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For five years, the weeks he spent in Telluride stood for David as an annual pinnacle, time that he anticipated and then consumed.
Those endeavors consumed enormous amounts of his administration's time and attention during his first term, not to mention the incalculable costs paid by military members and their families.
The so-called Telescopic Urinals pop up in the evenings outside pubs in areas where inebriated men may be tempted to relieve themselves of their recently consumed pints, and can be accessed any time from 7pm until 6am.
This all stems from when Netflix CEO Reed Hastings last JUly posted on his personal Facebook that, for the first time in company history, viewers had consumed 1 billion hours in a month.
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In the eyes of companies like Automated Insights, a decade from now people will find it difficult to remember a time in which the media content they consumed was not personalized to their every desire.
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Whether or not Dorner's grudges were legitimate, it's clear from his manifesto that they had consumed him long before he took cover for the last time in a lonely cabin.
The Senate preferred not to, because Republicans could require several more time-consuming cloture votes, of the sort that consumed the chamber in the days leading up to Christmas.
This sudden surge in exports of oil distillates, the primary source for motor diesel fuel consumed in the U.S., occurred at the same time diesel prices hit record highs.
In fact, in 2010, for the first time in thirteen years, less than half the petroleum we consumed was imported.
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So we are totally consumed with making this work, under the premise that now is the time to act and if we do act now we can achieve our renewable energy portfolio goals in an economically viable way.
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Due to the lapse of time, a lot of the meat "may already have been consumed", it added.
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But most are too consumed by the challenges of day-to-day living to spend much time thinking about U.S. politics.
James Glanz has an excellent piece in the Sunday New York Times and continuing today on how much power is consumed by data centers in the U.S. To provide fast response time, they operate near full capacity much of the time, and waste up to 90 percent of their energy consumption.
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But, it takes a lot more time for your body to get rid of the alcohol you've consumed.
One reason may be that unlike an open bottle of vintage Port, which has to be consumed within a few days, a tawny can be sipped a little at a time over many weeks.
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Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), a small-time farmer and erstwhile bluesman, lives alone with the burning anger that has consumed him since his wife left him for his brother.
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