Sentence examples for Black market commodities from inspiring English sources

They are all black market commodities, Eric Schlosser says in his new book, "Reefer Madness," and business in all of them is booming.

Where once crime syndicates focused on more familiar black market commodities – cocaine or heroin; arms; smuggled crude oil; trafficked women – law enforcement officials say that cartels are discovering opportunities in the more innocuous-sounding world of fisheries.

Once outlawed, contraceptives went underground, becoming a black market commodity no different legally from pornographic materials.

Banning it _ would just make it a sort of attractive black market commodity," says Houghton.

Oh well, it's not as if you have some sort of valuable black market commodity that criminals would invade your home over..

With steep parking rates (even for a museum), no guarantee of entry to Kasuma's "Infinity Room," and tickets that are essentially a black market commodity, it should be easy to hate The Broad.

Chicago, home of the Mercantile Exchange, has always been a hub from which legitimate goods fan out across the country, and it's no different for black-market commodities.

Basic foodstuffs became black-market commodities; in Jeremie, the price of rice doubled overnight.

One late rumor is that the newest black-market commodity in town is the labor of the ten writers, who are reported to be secretly turning out scripts for all the major studios.

It says 40percenttoto 60percentt of them have been acquired illegally -- on the black market, by bartering commodities like diamonds or through deals that obscure or lie about the source or destination of the weapons.

Inflation gave opportunities for some groups to profit through hoarding needed goods, smuggling high-value commodities, black market currency operations, and graft.