Sentences with phrase «marketable commodity»
The phrase "marketable commodity" refers to a product or item that can be bought and sold in the marketplace. It means that the item has value and there is demand for it, so it can be traded or sold for money. Full definition
More than that, Calvinism became so cool it started to become a very marketable commodity and to attract big money.
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The Phils have Von Hayes (26 homers, 28 stolen bases) in right, but he is their most marketable commodity, and if he can bring the Phillies a frontline starting pitcher and a regular, he's gone.
The biggest benefit from a business development standpoint is that you will acquire and hone skills that will make you a more marketable commodity.
He is not a marketable commodity, to be bought up or written off, and measured by price.
And yet we know the earth is finite and the kind of growth our economy has come to rely on, valuing life only as a marketable commodity, operates by the moral code of a malignant cancer.
A brilliant work of popular art, it redefined nostalgia as a marketable commodity and established a new narrative style, with locale replacing plot, that has since been imitated to the point of ineffectiveness.
Actors and filmmakers will spin nakedness as part of the quest for a greater cinematic truth, while never acknowledging the fact that, for a certain segment of the audience, nudity is a draw, a marketable commodity.
Non-writing book coaches function more like business coaches, treating your work as a marketable commodity.
Professor Friedman believes the query letter is all about seduction, and she notes that many authors struggle with it because they have to distance themselves from their work in order to view it as a marketable commodity — a product.
To the politicians, it's about power; to the AGW scientists, it's about funding; to the media, it's a marketable commodity and to the environmentalists, it's a religious conviction and a need to impose socialist controls.
Mr Howard is getting his wish of turning education into a marketable commodity.
General Motors sees those leftover steel cutouts, roughly four feet square, as a marketable commodity.
My claim relates to all marketable commodities and non-financial services with qualifications indicated by one example (smoking which has an addictive properties; there are others).
It is obviously a crucial element to building a lawyer, or any professional, into a marketable commodity.
Do not be discouraged — your experience is valuable and can definitely make you a marketable commodity in today's job market.
Skills are the marketable commodities of every professional.
Everyone thought the day has become yet another marketable commodity — just after Christmas and before Easter — allowing advertisers and merchants alike to sell a load of junk that no one needs.
Whether it encompasses little more than adding fresh flowers and reducing clutter or involves hauling away and replacing major pieces of furniture, the goal of staging is to put a house's best foot forward and give it the gloss of a marketable commodity, said Barb Schwarz, a Concord, Calif. - based real estate practitioner and former interior designer who first coined the work «staging» back in the 1970s.