Sentence examples for Expendable commodity from inspiring English sources

As for the effect of this continuous decline on staff, Chisholm believes JP sees journalists as "an expendable commodity", so "it is not surprising that staff morale is the lowest in the industry".

If women all too often find status only in the dangerous and expendable commodity of sexual attractiveness, then in getting pregnant, Juno would seem to have catastrophically abandoned this one tiny prerogative, and looked stupid into the bargain.

It said that children -- small, agile and relatively powerless -- are "widely perceived to be a cheap and expendable commodity," and that lighter-weight weapons make it easier to arm them.

The bottom line is that we need to treat water as a precious natural resource, rather than an expendable commodity to be exploited without reference to environmental sustainability.

They are expendable commodities.

Downsizing and re-engineering made it clear that employees were expendable commodities, not valued resources.

One bad idea, that university museums are expendable commodities, remains alive in our collective system.

The odds have been slightly in favor of their extending their careers, in other words — but they are also treated as expendable commodities.

For others, it is hard not to conclude their lives have been reduced to expendable commodities in a building boom where site hoardings proclaim with no hint of irony: "Qatar deserves the best".

They are accessible, expendable commodities to keep the engines of war running.

They've challenged sports institutions and organizations to better understand and promote their long-term well being, and questioned the ethics of treating competitive athletes as expendable commodities.