Sentence examples for over goods from inspiring English sources

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Except instead of bartering over goods, they were doing it over reconstruction and security.

It doesn't make sense that an intelligent, self-sufficient woman would go so gaga over goods.

According to a recent survey, if Texas-made products were identified as such, 89% of the state's people would choose them over goods produced elsewhere.

Sometimes hálapénz was not even money: poor peasants, for example, who could not afford to pay hard cash might hand over goods instead, such as freshly caught fish.Nowadays doctors prefer hard cash to a brace of trout, especially as their salaries are a fraction of what their counterparts earn in the West.

But thanks to a gradual accumulation of wealth, the struggle over goods came to infect social relations, and there emerged kings or tyrants who ruled over others not by virtue of their physical strength but by dint of gold.

Someone spending 15 rupees in rural India in 1960 had about the same command over goods and services as an American spending $23.14 a month in 1985.

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When the war was over, good fortune again played into Weidenfeld's hands.

On Saturday, all its 18 tills were manned and turning over good business.

situps Pushups with broken leg crossed over good leg.

It's not over-good, or over-bad, or dull, or elaborate.

Still, this worn material is a passed-over good from a dramaturgical secondhand store.

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