Sentence examples for of the basic commodities from inspiring English sources

"The rise in costs of the basic commodities are a burden on the rural and urban poor," says Peter Ngulube Chinoko, executive director at the Justice and Peace Commission Malawi.

The matter is urgent, the experts said in a report commissioned by Secretary General Kofi Annan and published today, because many poor countries are suffering from a slump in the prices of the basic commodities they produce, and the rich countries are dragging their feet on promises to help open more markets to them.

In other words, he's using quartz (a natural resource that's one of the basic commodities for all information technology), to create a raw mineral computer.

The purchasing power of this group was increased since the prices of the basic commodities were reduced.

Only the existence of unparalleled tech monopolies, dedicated to preventing the abundance of free information, stops large amounts of the basic commodity of our age – information – being free.

If a particular company's safety technology proves effective, eventually every car-seat maker will be required to include it, and side-impact protection will go from a premium feature to part of the basic commodity.

THE clubhouse is filled with other maritime artifacts: a gilt eagle from the top of a New York pilot boat, and a stopped clock salvaged from a Spanish ship sunk by Admiral Dewey in Manila Bay in 1898; a large mahogany case of drawers with a plaque reading "The Basic Commodities of Commerce," with glass-topped exhibit drawers of spices, furs, gums, resins, coals, petroleums, sugars and silks.

In the weeks ahead, it would be wise for all of us to keep our hemispheres straight & also our understanding of what the basic commodity in the Iran-Contra transactions really was.

Several senators from farm states said farm policy went astray when it began subsidizing every acre of land producing the basic commodity crops of corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and cotton, regardless of whether the farmer needed the money.

Brazil's variety, based on sugar cane, is cheaper than anyone else's and has encouraged a lot of innovation beyond the basic commodity.

"The supply of the very basic commodities is very challenging, so as a consequence the prices of the commodities themselves are very high whenever they are available," he said.