Sentence examples for seen as commodities from inspiring English sources

Designers are now seen as commodities, brought in to revive flailing houses and to be disposed of when a fresher name comes along.

Nowhere more so than in adoption and fostering, both nationally and internationally, where children were too often seen as commodities to meet adults' needs, even if those adults are well-intentioned "rescuers".

A second important idea that this chapter develops is that Web Services will cause many services to be seen as commodities.

This paper adopts a perspective whereby the modern forest industry sector is regarded as a system for the production of energy products, and where traditional forest industry products are seen as commodities that are released as energy at the end of their lives.

So long as women are seen as commodities rather than people, there is no place for women's rights.

The primary providers of free alcohol, especially for underage women whose bodies were seen as commodities, were frat parties.

For agricultural residues, the sustainable use of land in which the crop is grown may be relevant, especially as such products are increasingly seen as global commodities and traded across national borders.

Furthermore, to the extent that consultations are seen as service commodities (with patients seen as active seekers and consumers of those services) then it is also intuitively plausible that satisfaction might depend on the fulfilment of prior expectations for medications, tests, referrals, and other onward services for which the general practitioner is in effect a 'gatekeeper'gatekeeper

She emphasized that health care should "not be seen as a commodity, but as a public good".

This raises major issues around equity, where good quality healthcare can be seen as a commodity to be purchased by those who can afford it in an 'age of austerity', rather than as a right, as was enshrined in Ireland's 2001 national health policy 'Quality and Fairness' which said that every patient in Ireland should experience fair access to a high standard of treatment.

"It began to be seen as a commodity rather than as an icon of the community," he said.