Sentence examples for commodity things from inspiring English sources

This correction, big though it was in Nasdaq and tech, is one of the very few that occurred with new orders for old-economy tech -- these are the commodity things like desktops -- growing at between 20 and 30 percent year over year.

But just to stay on the commodity thing for a minute, another word for commodities is volatility.

But just to stay on the commodity thing for a minute, I mean, another word for commodities is volatility.

"It feels like these stars are commodities, things you can sell.

While you might not need to visit in person if you produce well known commodities, things change for more innovative products.

Scheper-Hughes quotes George Soros who asserts that markets are "indiscriminate [and] promiscuous... [and] reduce everything, including human beings and their sexual and reproductive capacities to the status of commodities, things [that] can be bought, sold, traded and stolen" [ 6].

And the Whitewater thing and the commodities thing and so on were, in part, the means that were used".

"This commodities thing may turn out to be the most interesting call of my career," he told me.

But for the U.S. economy cheaper commodities are a good thing, putting more money in consumers' pockets and lowering production costs for American firms.

Storage -- the ability to time shift a commodity -- is a good thing because it encourages economies of scale in production, pools supply and demand over time -- and lowers the cost of transportation.

If there was one good thing the strike threw up it was that most precious commodity: time.