Sentence examples for earlier commodities from inspiring English sources

It depicts Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 towards the end of an earlier commodities boom as a bright new dawn and applauds the rise of its first black leader, Mr Mugabe, who went on to bankrupt his country.More winners than losersThe sceptics are right that the tide is not rising everywhere, and inevitably there will be setbacks such as the conflict in Mali.

During an earlier commodities boom in the early 1970s Mao Zedong financed a railway line from Tanzania.

It was also an early commodities bull.In this section Nasty, brutish and short From buy-backs to sell-backs Sachs appeal Derailed?

Trading in the earliest commodities of globalization — tobacco, silver, potatoes — helped societies to escape, at least temporarily, Malthus's theory of limited resources, contributing to an unprecedented population boom, yet it also facilitated the spread of disease and ruinous agricultural practices, leading to slavery and war.

The prices of precious metals and other commodities, an early indication of inflation, are already in a bull-market phase.

In his former role, Mr. Davis was able to cash in on the huge rise in the price of iron ore, copper and other commodities in the early part of this century that was generated by a building and industrial boom in China and other emerging markets.

Only the most politically unified and densely populated areas could foster the early commodity trade with Europe; when European interest turned to human cargo, these areas were most directly affected by the slave trade [ 6].

Stock exchanges grew out of early trading activities in agricultural and other commodities.

Inflation has been high, spurred by the earlier increases in the prices of energy and some other commodities.

We considered two commodities: health (H) and other commodities (Z2).

Yet there is subtle evidence that we're seeing a labor-intensive profit-making paradise, with sugar and tobacco as early export commodities, and oil coming later.