Sentence examples for commodities to be from inspiring English sources

If that were so, Yahoo!'s recent acquisition of Tumblr would be a violation of the Constitution, which states that people are human beings with inherent rights, not commodities to be bought and sold.

For all our talk of self-fulfilment and self-realisation, the "selves" we seek to preserve and promote are often not spiritual beings, but "consumers" whose desires need to be satisfied, or even commodities to be consumed.

The Tories view the NHS and its staff as commodities to be sold off.

Some treated them as sexual commodities to be sold or gifted, the court heard.

They are off into the world of commodities to be sold, collected, handed on, given.

In a statement, the committee said it expected inflation from higher prices in energy and other commodities to be "transitory".

Mr. Hallett also likes commodities producers, but he prefers his commodities to be comestible instead of industrial.

To them, culture is "content," fans are "eyeballs" or "clicks," and both are commodities to be burned.

Where the expansion of citizenship constructed an ethos of mutuality, commerce has reduced us to consumer commodities to be exploited and defrauded.

Democracy is not a commodity to be imported.

It's not a commodity to be exported from west to east.