Sentence examples for significant commodity from inspiring English sources

Referring to the Gillard government's carbon pricing scheme, which has since been abolished by the Abbott government, Swan says: "Australia has been recognised around the world as an energy-intensive nation and a beneficiary of significant commodity exports, for taking seriously its international obligations to reduce its carbon emissions".

Though uranium only accounted for about 2% of Rio Tinto's revenues and 1% of earnings in 2006, Lehman Brothers analyst Christopher LaFemina thinks it a significant commodity, and on Tuesday raised his price target for Rio to $81 from $76.

Thanks to the ability to quantify and qualify personal data and metadata through the plethora of social networks, apps, and device usage among the masses, large companies are able to target customers and reach audiences on a more granular level than ever before, making big data a significant commodity in the commercial market.

The most significant commodity market changes are expected to occur for temperate-zone commodities such as cereals, meat and dairy products that account for the majority of OECD policy distortions.

Poultry, cattle, hogs, eggs, maple products, and blueberries represent other significant commodities.

In recent years, in fact, Peruvian chefs have become a significant export commodity throughout South America — the country's cooking schools are among the continent's most acclaimed — trafficking in a melting pot mix of European, Asian and indigenous flavors.

Currently, oil palm plantation occupied 5.39 million ha of total planting area with production of 20 million tonnes of crude palm oil (MPOB 2016), making the most significant plantation commodity in Malaysia.

Because this led to a great influx of rural people into the larger urban centres, agricultural production stagnated to such an extent that cash crops such as palm oil, peanuts (groundnuts), and cotton were no longer significant export commodities; in addition, from about 1975 Nigeria was forced to import such basic commodities as rice and cassava for domestic consumption.

But in the subsequent 24 months the market watchdog has been in almost constant retreat, under relentless pressure from the big six and after a significant fall in commodity costs filtered through to lower household energy bills.

Metabolic engineering strives to develop microbial strains that are capable of high-titer production of a variety of industrially significant pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, commodity, and high-value compounds.

I think the movement from potential recovery to potential expansion would end very quickly if a significant increase in commodity prices were to occur.