Sentence examples for commodities worth from inspiring English sources

The groups estimate that a closure until the end of the month would affect about 8,000 jobs, $54m in wages and benefits, and 7.2m tonnes of commodities, worth around $2.8bn dollars.

Enslaved people were valuable commodities, worth approximately one years salary to their owners.

Some of those fights are still going on – water is a commodity worth fighting over.

Before him, most bulls were a dubious commodity — worth more for beef than for bucking cowboys.

The world clearly thinks this is a commodity worth buying into".

"Once it becomes a commodity worth having it becomes a business opportunity, and that changes the whole agenda," says Baker.

To the Americans who have lost the race with their biological clocks, a baby is a precious commodity worth almost any price.

If, in her words, culture is a commodity, albeit a "commodity worth buying into", then what happens to culture that doesn't pay "healthy dividends", as she delicately puts it?

If power hangs in the balance between the two genders in Tom Sharpe's latest blast of farce – his first novel since Wilt in Nowhere five years ago – then it's a moot point whether it's a commodity worth lusting after.

The world clearly thinks this is a commodity worth buying into," she said.

Time is the ultimate equalizer and the only commodity worth fighting for — you can always make more money.