Sentence examples for commodities and thus from inspiring English sources

Nestle is also a mammoth buyer of commodities, and thus not perceived as distributing social value along its supply chain in the same way as, say, Fairtrade.

Guns enabled the centralization of storage and control of commodities and thus represented a strategic resource by which to boost the power of the rulers.

Handling what may be a permanent rise in the cost of all commodities and thus the cost of doing business is extremely hard.

In recent years, as servers have become more of a commodity and thus less profitable, Sun has been beefing up its software business.

Currently, the proliferation of the mobile ad hoc wireless networks (MAWN) is moving from cutting edge to commodity and thus, reliable performance will be expected.

MD: Health insurance and administrative services are mostly a commodity and thus must be price sensitive.

Several government and academic respondents maintained that information produced by biotechnology companies is often their sole commodity and thus there are strong disincentives to full sharing of new and useful data.

In fact, it gives a new message for current account since, emerging countries are primarily commodity exporters, and thus increasing commodity price will rise their export opportunities to the overseas.

Meanwhile genetically-altered commodity crops – and thus the influence of patent protection – have spread to become overwhelmingly dominant.

China's slowdown has prompted a steep fall in commodity prices, and thus the value of Latin America's exports.

Commodity prices, and thus Australia's terms of trade (the relative value of exports to imports), have started falling.