Sentence examples for is a basic commodity from inspiring English sources

Cement is a basic commodity and margins are razor thin.

"To me, steel is a basic commodity that we have to make in this country.

Cross-linking agents transform polyethylene (PE) from being a basic commodity thermoplastic into a useful engineering material.

Time is known to be a basic commodity in health care.

Once the policy is introduced, waste-disposal costs are counted as production costs by producers, and the treatment service turns to be a basic-commodity (basic-service), so that the wage-profit frontier reflects the technical condition of the service.

"Any belief that there's some huge amount of cash out there that can be substituted for the missing funds either on the securities side or on the commodities side is a basic misconception," he says.

Water is a basic right, critics said; not a marketable commodity.

MapReduce is a basic system architecture designed by Google for processing and analyzing large datasets on commodity computing clusters.

Mr Lyons says gold should be treated as a basic commodity just like food or oil and, just like other commodities, it has a firm floor and a soft ceiling.

The costs of industrial waste are, however, counted as part of production costs by producers, so that the waste treatment service of industrial waste is nothing but a basic-commodity (basic service), and affects the wage-profit frontier, insofar as the relevant commodity is basic.

There are others, steel and such, that are basic commodity output, that might actually be hit on a first round as well.