Sentence examples for profitable commodities from inspiring English sources

He contended that marrying his slow-growing stock trading business with ICE's enormously profitable commodities markets would rejuvenate NYSE Euronext.

Dace Sera was one of a number of young Latvian women who were turned into profitable commodities by the group.

The agent wanted to stay the marketing course that had transformed O'Neal into one of sport's most likable and profitable commodities.

Russia's biggest aluminum producer, flush with cash and seeking new investments in Russia's reviving manufacturing sector, has increased its management role in the country's second-largest carmaker, reflecting a broader trend among the highly profitable commodities companies.

He took a trip to a tech-hub in Dundee, to learn how young gaming entrepreneurs plan on turning their creations into profitable commodities.

All of them stable and reliably profitable commodities in times of peace and prosperity.

COUNTRY MUSIC has experienced cycles of booms and busts since 78 r.p.m. hillbilly records became a profitable commodity in the 1920's.

Drug user or not, Mr. Scott-Heron is still a profitable commodity to many people, whether promoters, publishers or band mates, who know that to confront him about his drug use could mean losing his favor.

At the same time, though, the crackdown has brought attention to an insular community that has long been branded as a silent partner for smugglers trafficking in the latest profitable commodity, be it cigarettes, liquor or immigrants.

Ellen R. Wald '04 profiles the rise of the Arab Nation in Saudi, Inc. (Pegasus Books), focusing on how the country has grown through the shrewd leadership of the al Saud family, and how its rise has been intertwined with the cultivation of a state corporation, Aramco, built on what is possibly the world's most profitable commodity — oil.

The huge rise in the price of ivory that makes it a profitable commodity for terrorists came after the calamitous decision by CITES in 2008 to sanction the sale of ivory stockpiles, thereby re-opening the global market that had been closed down since 1989.