Sentence examples for a commodity one from inspiring English sources

In the nearly 40 years since Mr. Brown's independently produced and released documentary, surfing has become a commodity, one of the designated extreme sports -- along with snowboarding, bungee jumping and helicopter skiing -- that have developed alongside the traditional Olympic repertory.

Up and down this country students are restless and angry, tired of a system that sees education as nothing more than a commodity, one that throws us into a lifetime of unfairness, injustice and crippling debt.

"I am not a commodity," one user wrote.

Cocoa is a commodity, one of the world's most volatile, and the quality of the farmers' lives rise and fall with the cocoa prices.

Of the multinational organizations aimed at affecting the price of a commodity, one of the most significant is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

It's a move that adds a proven commodity, one who has, shockingly, had a much longer shelf-life than peers like Allen Iverson and the recently retired pitcher Tracy McGrady.

"Public space is a precious commodity," one senior administration official said.

Although coal isn't a strategic commodity, one should question why the bank was so reckless.

Mr. Cherkaoui is an exceedingly hot commodity, one whose fluid, sensual works have been almost entirely absent from the United States dance circuit.

In a global economy, a low-priced solar cell, like a low-priced laptop computer, may come to be seen as a low-value added commodity, one that is the basis for other, more high-value added products.

If Brazil presumes they can control the value to the Real on world currency markets through their sovereign wealth fund, influencing the price of a commodity, even one as widely traded as oil, would be equally plausible.