Sentence examples for mere commodity from inspiring English sources

Leo's borrowed body becomes a mere commodity, for which there exists a competing bidder.

One reason is that the big coffee trading houses and multinationals had focused on peddling it as a mere commodity.

He maintained that within the capitalist system, labour was a mere commodity that could gain only subsistence wages.

Art could be saved from mere commodity if artists lived and worked together as they once had done.

It is a further shift in the direction of news being faster, shorter, simpler and a mere commodity.

Wall Street securities firms, such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, have long argued that credit is a mere commodity that need not be provided in-house.

There is so much to take in that the urge to treat the clothes as mere commodities kicks in quickly.

This holds people and communities to be mere commodities, of use only insofar as they can deliver a profit.

He retorted: "The mind's creations are no mere commodities and can't be treated as such".

How can we justify protecting certain species, taking them into our homes and treating them as friends while treating others as mere commodities?

But in an age when airline executives resist the idea that seats are mere commodities, the industry is becoming a lot more standardized.