Sentence examples for same commodities from inspiring English sources

Imports of certain commodities collide with interests of those U.S. states where the same commodities are produced & they want imports restricted.

Also, Reuters reported that Chesapeake's chairman and chief executive, Aubrey McClendon, ran a $200 million hedge fund on the side that traded in the same commodities Chesapeake produces.

United Nations officials in Sudan say that the fact that they have to import some of the same commodities that Sudan not only produces but exports is a source of constant frustration.

Those concerns were heightened by the latest Reuters report, which said that Mr. McClendon and another Chesapeake co-founder had directed a $200 million hedge fund that traded the same commodities produced by his company.

Also, most commodities produced by less-developed countries face competition from the developed countries, which may produce the same commodities (such as petroleum, sugar, rice, and tobacco) or goods substitutable in varying degrees (such as soybean oil for peanut oil).

Comparative advantage, economic theory, first developed by 19th-century British economist David Ricardo, that attributed the cause and benefits of international trade to the differences in the relative opportunity costs (costs in terms of other goods given up) of producing the same commodities among countries.

Because primary markets include goods of all degrees of fabrication, the same commodity is often priced at several stages of processing.

Some commodities even drop out of use, while new ones appear, and often an item changes so much in composition and design that it is doubtful whether it can properly be considered the same commodity.

Mr. Neustadt said that the comptroller's office had no methods of enforcement and provided only advisory decisions, but that the law was clear: local governments must award contracts to the lowest bidder who provides the same commodity.

Whether they arise from the precincts of advertising, politics, religion or the news media, these voices deal in the same commodity: a fraudulent folklore whose central aim is insulate us from the true nature of our predicament, to manipulate our anxieties, to goad us into empty consumption or snag us in cycles of grievance and panic.

Unlike oil, he said, which is essentially the same commodity barrel to barrel, each movie is unique, and he wondered whether such a market could allow people not directly involved in a film — including movie reviewers — to push a movie that they have invested in.