7 sentences with 'commodity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word commodity and other words derived from it.
• « Citizenship was a useful commodity, protecting its holders from harsher legal punishments and granting them important political rights. »
• « In this case, the Dutch tulip bulb price craze collapsed in the winter of 1637 - 1638, but meanwhile presaged the rise of commodity speculation for centuries to come. »
• « Sugar quickly became the colonial commodity, enormously valuable in Europe and relatively easy to cultivate (compared to exotic products such as spices, which could only be obtained from Asian sources). »
• « The five-year plans were part of the USSR's new "planned economy", in which every conceivable commodity was produced on the basis of quotas imposed by the vast party bureaucracy in Moscow. »
• « Blood, a vital and, for the moment, irreplaceable tissue, is becoming a scarce commodity in hospitals that needs to be rationed, avoiding unnecessary transfusions. »
• « In time, much of the Atlantic world would become a giant sugar plantation complex where Africans worked to produce the highly profitable commodity for European consumers. »
• « When the Spanish discovered chicha, they bought and marketed it, turning it into a commodity rather than a ritual substance. »