Sentence examples for is being bartered from inspiring English sources

Palestinians have become poorer and less powerful over the course of the process and fear that their future state is being bartered away by their representatives.

I wanted to know what is being bartered for what exactly, and what kind of people are into it, so using the name "Pancho" I created a fake account on Mexican Craigslist pages, Facebook, and the Spanish bartering website ofrezcoacambio.com.

Long the symbol of the refugees' clamour to return home, they are being bartered.

The pirates want $20 million, though people close to the negotiations have said they are being bartered down and will probably settle for $5 million.

And right now these assets (themselves a distracting mirage from greater power held by the NSA, Google, and others) are being bartered in a disturbingly one-directional manner.

The boys had been sold from one middleman to another, and now they were being bartered for a Chechen soldier referred to as "the invalid," whose relatives agreed to negotiate with the women.

And this is no two-bit act the International Reciprocal Trade Association, Chicago, estimates that as of 1998, $12.8 billion worth of goods and services were being bartered annually.

Precious livestock was being bartered for sacks of sorghum.

Since it was not just medicine that was being bartered here, the general economic history of Coromandel trade becomes relevant.

Under the circumstances, widespread shortages have occurred and there are reports of emerging and growing informal cross boarder trade with China, in which various products, such as lumber, scrap metal and shellfish are being bartered for wheat flour.

Given the wave of criticism that is now hitting Facebook — and by extension all ad-based "free" services — over just what kind of information is being gathered, bartered and used relating to us, it will be interesting to see how much more the idea of paid services in lieu of ad-based free catches on.