Sentence examples for private commodities from inspiring English sources

Advertising and propaganda, public monuments and private commodities, deified leaders and self-aggrandizing celebrities battle it out in a potpourri collection of seemingly disconnected artworks.

Second, we should be clear that expressing the value of ecosystem services in monetary units does not mean that they should be treated as private commodities that can be traded in private markets.

Once farmers planted their former swiddens with cacao, they treated both the cacao and the land as private, individual commodities that could be readily sold.

"It's a private commodity that people can do with what they want," he said.

In Marseille, Naples and Moscow, life was not a private commodity, but "dispersed, porous, commingled".

If water is a private commodity, then people are at the mercy of market logic.

The message was that water was a public good, not a private commodity.

The private commodity trader based in Switzerland, which owns 34% of the miner and the marketing rights to some of its output, gives little away about its operations, usually earning it the tag "secretive".Xstrata, one of the world's biggest mining firms, was born out of the initial public offering (IPO) of Glencore's coal mines in 2002.

But reformers are "refashioning education as a private commodity rather than a public good".

But at least that guy has to bet his own money that he can resell a private commodity he bought.

Librarians think about information a great deal, all kinds of information, and we realize that it is a precious and a private commodity.