Sentences with phrase «dependence on commodity»

Given the energy industry's dependence on commodity prices, the sector tends to be cyclical and profitability can be highly variable.

Not exact matches

The decision to not release detailed documents could signal a desire for the government to shift away from the public quarterly budget updates, which are meaningless in terms of fiscal planning due to the province's dependence on fluctuating natural resource commodity prices and have become little more than public relations exercises for the government over the past two decades.

While workers were being drawn into the industrial labor force as individual breadwinners in Europe during the nineteenth century, for example, other workers in Europe's colonies were being drawn into a permanent state of dependence as producers of raw commodities — in mines and on plantations.

He valued persons over systems (Sabbath is for man, not man for Sabbath), he affirmed the value of persons over things (His concern for children, women); he rejected any custom or system that marginalised people (entered into solidarity with the poor and the weak); he was harshly critical against the self - seeking leaders (Pharisees) and excessive dependence on mammon — the commodity mentality — was abhorrent to him.

This way, I intend to exploit the South American potential with reduced volatility and less dependence on a few companies and commodities.