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In rural America, however, lack of broadband availability is a more frequently-cited major reason for non-adoption than in urban areas 11 percent vs. 1 percent.
NTIA Announces New Findings on U.S. Broadband Adoption « ResourceShelf 2010
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Note that the Bass model addresses the market in an aggregate way: The forecast is the total number of adopters who purchase the new product per time period, rather than the adoption or non-adoption by an individual customer.
Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995
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Look at the non-adoption of Linux on the desktop or even Apple's Macintosh in South Korea- basically no market share whatsoever.
GNU/Linux: The Great Unifier glyn moody 2008
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But interdependence does not mean the non-adoption of any grassroot initiatives.
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Level Four's whitepaper highlights risks of non-adoption of EMV for US banks
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Let us consider also what are opposed to these, namely, imputation of sins and non-adoption.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3 1560-1609 1956
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For those words signify that God, according to other attributes of his nature, decreed the adoption of these and the non-adoption of those, to the illustration of his own glory, in which deed he used also mercy and justice for the execution of that decree, and indeed with the condition of a change in the object.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3 1560-1609 1956
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Ephes. i, "He predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, &c.," and explains them, preserving the order which we noticed under Proposition I. God therefore from eternity determined to illustrate most wisely his own glory by the adoption of these and the preterition or non-adoption of those with the introduction also of mercy and justice.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3 1560-1609 1956
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But they consider mercy the appropriate cause of adoption, but justice the cause of non-adoption or reprobation, and they regard his purpose of illustrating both as the whole cause of predestination, that is, of election and reprobation; for they divide predestination into these parts or species.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3 1560-1609 1956
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In the first place, because they do not consider that the illustration of the glory of God is effected immediately by the adoption of these and the non-adoption or preterition of those, but by a declaration of mercy and justice, which are unfolded in the acts of adoption or election, and of non-adoption or reprobation.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3 1560-1609 1956
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