Sentence examples for commodities instead from inspiring English sources

American Girl's exponentially expanding and ever-changing cast of characters has turned the dolls into commodities instead of personalities.

Everyone was in dotcom businesses and no one saw any earning potential in doing up homes.' Since then, she says, people have stopped seeing houses as homes but as commodities instead.

While noting that price spikes in agricultural markets were not uncommon, the report suggested that the current run-up in prices was different because it had lasted longer and affected nearly all major food and feed commodities, instead of just a few crops.

To become a member you submit to a nine-minute meditation program following instructions on the internet, envisioning a new world where blocks of consciousness are traded as commodities instead of actual physical products.

Creation is "fallen" not because the plants or animals have become "sinful," but because humanity looks at the world as a plantation of commodities instead of a garden of sacraments.

Taking into account the price incentives in a real market setting, where consumers would tend to opt for lower-priced commodities instead of high-price goods to some extent (within the above-mentioned guidelines for the respective diets), the estimated food expenditure becomes lower in both diets.

Changing expectations of patients who view health services as a commodity instead of accepting the "take what you get given" approach of the past.

How can we shift from churning out houses engineered chiefly as tradable commodities to instead produce housing in the public interest?

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, have all, to varying degrees, devoted resources to news and seen opportunities in it, but as an information commodity, redistributors instead of shapers.

"But it's a lot of work trying to educate them on why they should run on commodity hardware instead of expensive servers like CISCO and HP.

An interesting aspect of these debates is whether decisional capacity should be considered a fixed mental commodity, or instead assessed according to a 'sliding scale' that varies with the associated risks and circumstances (Buchanan & Brock 1989, 60).