Sentence examples for commodity just from inspiring English sources

Today soya is traded as an international commodity, just like oil or gold.

The ascendancy of rock 'n' roll itself surely contributed to that, killing jazz singing as a saleable commodity just as Ms. Stallings was coming of age.

This is just before sugar took off as a commodity, just before the demand for human labour made the slave trade into the monstrous machine that it became by the time Beloved begins.

What I'm suggesting, in other words, is to forget that big new professional-quality range or $40,000 sport utility vehicle and buy yourself some freedom; you really can, because it's a commodity just like any other.

Hickey says PCs have become a commodity just like televisions.

Hickey says that PCs have become a commodity just like television sets.

Since Sept. 17, Jeff Bauml and two dozen other traders have been buying and selling crude oil, silver, sugar and other commodities just a few feet away from students.

Commodities just become more marvelous; young, urban professionals sleep, work and shop with greater ease and comfort; democracy is insidiously subverted by technologies of surveillance, and control is enthusiastically rebranded as "participation"; and our present world order of systematized domination, intimidation and oppression continues, unmentioned, unafflicted or only faintly perturbed.

But the momentum effect suggests that an irrationality might be at work; investors could be buying shares (and commodities) just because they have risen in price.That would help explain why bubbles are created and why professional investors ended up allocating capital to dotcom companies with no earnings and business plans written on the back of a cigarette packet.

Features: As digital cameras try to avoid becoming commodities, just about every unit on the market has some gimmick that might actually be useful.

Looks like Facebook will need to find itself another major differentiator, because developer platforms are becoming commodities just like social networks themselves.