Sentence examples for Indispensable commodity from inspiring English sources
Since the introduction of phenoformaldehyde plastic in 1909 by Leo Hendrik Baekeland, petrochemical plastics have developed into a major industry and an indispensable commodity for modern life (Meikle, [1995]).
We will go, as we did in 1991, to secure our oil interests in the region, to wrest an indispensable commodity from the hands of a hostile vendor.
Rather, it offered a wider range of opportunities to profit from the remote labor of slaves, especially as cotton emerged as the indispensable commodity of the age of industry.
Rubber is an indispensable commodity used in the manufacture of over 50,000 products worldwide [ 1].
Oil prices rose above $116 a barrel last week, setting another record for the world's most indispensable energy commodity.
Blood, in other words, is not just a compelling, mystical symbol of the spirit of life; it is a commodity and is medically indispensable.
Single nucleotide polymorphims (SNPs) have become a genomic commodity as they are becoming indispensable in various genome scans aimed at mapping genomes [ 1- 6], finding associations with complex traits [ 7- 10], and population genomics [ 11, 12].
The premise is not that meat provided some indispensable nutritional building block but rather that, as a limited commodity, it exerted a civilizing influence, giving rise to ingenuity (and, one imagines, politics) as people learned to barter and share.
In a world of speed and distraction, the slow, demanding art work is more indispensable than ever, for it holds out the possibility of those elusive commodities: stillness, clarity, and peace.
