Sentence examples for the commodity things from inspiring English sources

This correction, big though it was in Nasdaq and tech, is one of the very few that occurred with new orders for old-economy tech -- these are the commodity things like desktops -- growing at between 20 and 30 percent year over year.

But just to stay on the commodity thing for a minute, another word for commodities is volatility.

But just to stay on the commodity thing for a minute, I mean, another word for commodities is volatility.

And the Whitewater thing and the commodities thing and so on were, in part, the means that were used".

Scheper-Hughes quotes George Soros who asserts that markets are "indiscriminate [and] promiscuous... [and] reduce everything, including human beings and their sexual and reproductive capacities to the status of commodities, things [that] can be bought, sold, traded and stolen" [ 6].

"It feels like these stars are commodities, things you can sell.

While you might not need to visit in person if you produce well known commodities, things change for more innovative products.

"But the things driving the commodity market are not necessarily the same things driving high-quality coffee farming.

Elsewhere in Africa, other strongmen whose coffers were swelling on the commodity boom were doing similar things.

"We're all in the meat business, but we're the ones who opted out of the commodity, feedlot, big ag-business thing," Mr. Dickson said.

The commodity itself seems an increasingly rare thing in an internet-frazzled world, and so how unexpectedly wonderful to read Scarlett Thomas's Our Tragic Universe, a book that brims with compassion and warmth.