Sentence examples for simply as commodities from inspiring English sources

Khan said that children who labour "in sweatshops and brothels are harmed and exploited to the core of their beings, denied their most basic human rights, indeed their humanity, and treated simply as commodities".

The sort of people who ought to be professionally protecting real quality and fostering genuine individuality — not just the image of these, or the toy-town versions that advertising fools about with — seem ever more inclined to present thoughts, facts, and values, and human beings, too, simply as fashionable commodities, much like the season's new hats of old.

In the absence of these new business models, emerging technologies in the energy sector simply end up in competition with old ones--as commodities.

As online course work gains more prominence today, my concern is that education will be viewed simply as an academic commodity, and that the social dimension of learning will go unrecognized or be dismissed as unnecessary to the process.

The appraisal industry has become commoditized, where lenders see appraisals as simply a commodity to be purchased by a vendor and where more emphasis is placed on the price of an appraisal than the expertise of the appraiser".

Simply put, as long as a computer, rather than an individual or an investment committee is picking stocks, bonds and commodities, the SEC says it is OK to call it index investing.

You know, they were accepted as commodities.

Other owners treat them as commodities.

"We often talk about people smugglers treating individuals as commodities.

There were few safe harbors, as commodities also tumbled.

Applicants are viewed as commodities.