Education is not an exclusive commodity to be brokered only to the privileged -- and should not be treated as such.
"And you can't import America in its entirety, it's not physically possible," the satirical ad says, mimicking the original commercial's emphasis on American pride as an exclusive commodity.
Information is no longer an exclusive commodity for those who sit exams, access ivory towers and slide beyond glass ceilings: it's readily available anytime, to anyone who wants it, in greater quantities than ever before.
To help determine priorities for food safety efforts, we organized the large number of foods implicated in outbreaks in the United States into 17 mutually exclusive food commodities.
To standardize the analysis of foods, we used a modified version of an existing classification scheme (14 ) to categorize reported foods into 1 of 20 mutually exclusive food commodities.
In the postcolonial annals, near-exclusive dependence on a single commodity — copper in Cold War-era Zambia and Zaire, as Congo was then known, or uranium in Niger — entrenched one-party states even as African economies became hostage to the vagaries of remote, international markets.
Literally, Websters defines a monopoly as "exclusive control of a commodity or service in a given market".
Part of the reason is that "virtue" is often defined as the ultimate commodity, something exclusive, like a Porsche or a perfect figure, that only the rich and famous have access to.
Mr. Denton said that as exclusive news becomes an ever rarer commodity, the tactical aggression will grow in all corners.
Partnering with suppliers to use environmentally friendly technologies is another sign a company takes risks seriously, especially with exclusive suppliers that provide a key commodity.
