Users
in sentence
986 examples of Users in a sentence
Mini-grids are essentially localized electricity networks that supply several users, whether households or businesses.
Most worrying of all, more and more Internet
users
are being jailed for their comments on social media, or for simply endorsing content with a “like.”
For example, in India, where only 29% of all Internet
users
are female, girls in rural areas often face gender-based restrictions on their use of information and communications technologies.
Westerners took to calling the Old Man’s followers hashashin, or
users
of hashish, because they regarded intoxication as the only possible explanation for such “senseless” disregard for one’s own physical wellbeing.
But the hashashin were not drug
users
on the whole.
The average level of Internet and mobile-phone penetration in the rich world in 1997 – 4.1 Internet
users
and 10.7 mobile phones per 100 inhabitants – was reached in developing countries only five years later.
More Africans have become telecommunications
users
in the last four years than in the entire twentieth century.
India, for example, has 525 million mobile phone
users
and fewer than 150 million people with Internet access, so using mobile-phone technology as a tool of e-governance has become vital.
Some of these applications create good measures of performance, allowing
users
to assess outcomes and track progress.
In the case of Facebook, that translates into 1.5 billion users, almost all of whom have clicked to agree to the company’s terms of service without having read them.
There are currently proposals to require tech companies to obtain an affirmative opt-in from
users
before collecting their data, and to allow
users
to retrieve or erase their data easily.
To collect more data, firms might offer
users
inducements beyond the putatively free services they already provide, and that may or may not slow down the pace at which they can enhance services or add newfeatures.
While developed countries, including the US and the United Kingdom, have drawn on their allocations, the major
users
have been developing and, in particular, low-income countries.
And, by streamlining the exchange of information and facilitating coordination of complex tasks, the Chinese social-media app WeChat – with 938 million
users
as of the first quarter of 2017 – has contributed to previously unimaginable productivity gains.
By following an eloquent survivor of the Parkland massacre, 1.66 million Twitter
users
have signaled their support for stronger gun-control regulations, and their opposition to the US gun lobby.
The number of Internet
users
worldwide now exceeds 3.2 billion, but at the end of 2015, 57% of the world’s population, or four billion people, remained offline, and many who are online use only basic cell phones.
This means that as technology, data, and data
users
and providers make rapid advances, cooperation among diverse actors – governments, national statistics offices, donor agencies, global and local NGOs, academic and research institutions, the private sector and others – will be needed.
After all, the Internet lends itself to abusive behavior, because
users
can operate anonymously and at a safe distance from their targets.
These factors, together with the self-righteousness of true believers in a political cause, embolden social-media
users
like the BJP’s trolls to say anything that crosses their minds.
Overly strict qualification criteria are likely to deter members that may need this kind of support most from applying for it; but overly loose criteria may stigmatize potential
users.
On the other side of the spectrum, oil-importing developed countries are most likely efficient
users
of fossil fuels already.
Countries that regulate entry by new ISPs in this way have fewer Internet
users
per capita, regardless of national income and general development of the telecommunications network.
The Chinese government is now requesting seats on the boards of companies such as WeChat, Weibo, and Tencent, and demanding access to their users’ personal data.
However, if we distinguish between the industries that produce information and communications technologies (ICT) and those that are simply
users
of such technologies, we can see that the productivity growth gap stems almost entirely from the weakness of Europe's ICT producing sector.
Annual productivity growth in sectors that are
users
of ICT technologies averaged 0.63% in the US between 1995 and 2000, and a very similar 0.41% in Europe.
You can find out, for example, that last month 56% of your
users
would recommend your product to a friend, versus 79% the same time last year.
If that’s unclear to you, just visit the site and ask questions; other
users
will answer most of them, and sometimes the staff (identified with a red badge under their names; occasionally it’s the CEO) will chime in with “official” information.
As the number of
users
soared after the late 1990s, the Internet became a vital substrate for economic, social, and political interactions.
The creation of IAAs and the adoption of a single unit of account would go a long way toward making things simpler, especially if all relevant individual information is available to
users
via a single smartphone app.
Users
worldwide can stream Beyoncé’s latest single immediately upon its release.
Back
Next
Related words
Their
Other
Which
Million
About
Would
People
Companies
There
Information
Services
World
Platforms
Number
Where
Billion
Social
Could
Should
Countries