Sentence examples for many basic goods from inspiring English sources
Big companies control many basic goods and services, including cement, beer, corn flour, and medicine distribution.
Bangladesh is now a garment manufacturing giant, the world's second-leading apparel exporter, behind China, which is no longer the cheapest place to make many basic goods.
Those currency controls led to shortages of many basic goods — cooking oil, flour, even toilet paper — partly because importers didn't have the dollars required to bring them in.
In Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro has defied many of his critics by remaining in power for a second year since he succeeded Hugo Chávez, despite recession, high inflation and a shortage of many basic goods.
However, supermarket bosses have said that they will try and protect shoppers from price rises, not least because they face rising competition from discount chains Aldi and Lidl, which undercut them on many basic goods.
This, then, is an opportunity to demonstrate that anti-chavista forces do indeed represent the majority.Amid a sharp economic downturn, with inflation running at over 50%, growth anaemic and many basic goods missing from the shelves, Mr Maduro's popularity was waning even among die-hard chavistas.
His critics say currency controls have left companies unable to obtain imported machine parts and raw materials while price controls have made it unprofitable to produce many basic consumer goods.
To our surprise, we found that the relative prices of grains, metals, and many other basic goods tended to revert to a central mean tendency over sufficiently long periods.
Mr. Maduro does not inspire nearly the same devotion, and the country's economic woes are getting worse, with inflation over 45 percent a year and shortages of many basic foods and goods, including toilet paper.
FIFA has refused to abide by many basic standards of good governance that would reduce the risk of corruption.
Smuggled Western goods were sold at inflated prices in the Soviet Union, where many basic foods and other goods were in short supply.
