Sentence examples for finite commodity from inspiring English sources

These particular records, he explained, are a finite commodity.

Gold may be "fundamentally unattractive", but at least it is a finite commodity.

"I also wanted a large amount of land because it's a finite commodity.

The "patience of peace" is a finite commodity and whoever targeted the market crowds and labourers yesterday aims to restart the cycle of killing that the surge tactics had significantly slowed.

It also confirms that the only good scale is human scale and that new land should be used reluctantly and carefully, like the precious and finite commodity it is.

Ironies aside, the basic insight of this book is an eloquently stated platitude, that love is "no finite commodity," that "to give to one did not necessarily mean to take from another; that the heart in its infinite capacity... could open itself to all who would enter, like a house with windows and doors thrown wide, like the heart of God itself".

The less-developed countries that produce minerals and metals seemingly have the most favourable export prospects because demand for such finite commodities is expanding among the developed countries, many of which are concerned over the depletion of their domestic resources.

With its federal revenues down by about 30% because of the oil price slump, the result is clear; Nigeria cannot keep running a mono-economy on the finite, fickle commodity that is oil.

In the desert all around are the lush golf courses and artificial pools squandering a finite, life-giving commodity, offering a kind of gleeful profligacy to those willing to pay.

Regarding the SU traffic, we consider the existence of a finite number of commodities representing either flows, i.e., SU source-destination pairs, or destinations, within a time-slotted network operation.

Central banks' quantitative easing policies, which leave more dollars, yen and euros chasing a finite quantity of the commodity, may also be contributing to the rise in prices.