Supply
in sentence
3107 examples of Supply in a sentence
I know that none of us want to be accessories after the fact of a human rights abuse in a global
supply
chain.
But right now, most of the companies involved in these
supply
chains don't have any way of assuring us that nobody had to mortgage their future, nobody had to sacrifice their rights to bring us our favorite brand name product.
Now, I didn't come here to depress you about the state of the global
supply
chain.
And right now, that independent republic of the
supply
chain is not being governed in a way that would satisfy us, that we can engage in ethical trade or ethical consumption.
You expect that the
supply
chain that gets it to the hospital, probably squeaky clean.
So a couple of years ago, we had a scandal which killed about 80 people around the world, because of contaminants that crept into the heparin
supply
chain.
And the real problem with the global
supply
chain is that it's supranational.
So they formed a White House task force, and they spent about three years arguing about who takes how much responsibility in the global
supply
chain.
We'll apply that throughout our global
supply
chain regardless of ownership or control.
So what we've been able to do is we've been able to harness the power and the influence of the only truly transnational institution in the global
supply
chain, that of the multinational company, and get them to do the right thing, get them to use that power for good, to deliver the key public goods.
Those
supply
chains I put up on the screen earlier, they're not there.
If we can put those two together in a safe space, get them to work together, we can deliver public goods right now, or in extremely short
supply.
We take their
supply
chain, we take all the factory names, we do a random sample, we send inspectors on an unannounced basis to inspect those facilities, and then we publish the results.
"You want me to deliver human rights throughout my global
supply
chain.
For example, you could plot the flow of carbon through corporate
supply
chains in a corporate ecosystem, or the interconnections of habitat patches for endangered species in Yosemite National Park.
I did some research and I pretty quickly found a very scary
supply
chain that led me to some pretty troubling realities.
But one of them was to maintain the economic order of the South, which required not just a
supply
of cheap labor but an oversupply of cheap labor to work at the will of the land.
Biological nutrition can
supply
about 500 million humans, which means that if we all wore Birkenstocks and cotton, the world would run out of cork and dry up.
I have a slight office
supply
addiction, but that's another talk.
And it's also the story of modern capitalism, because it was the wealth from this land that gave birth to our economic system, one that cannot survive without perpetual growth and an unending
supply
of new frontiers.
CSP needs a
supply
of demineralized freshwater.
And the third challenge is vascularity, the actual
supply
of blood to allow those organs or tissues to survive once we regenerate them.
They're concerned about securing an adequate
supply
of water, they're trying to be really efficient with their water use, and they're concerned about how their water use affects the image of their brand.
But I know she will anyway, so instead I'll always keep an extra
supply
of chocolate and rain boots nearby, because there is no heartbreak that chocolate can't fix.
A greater distribution of the means of production, environmentally sound
supply
chains, and a newly relevant DIY maker culture can hope to transcend artificial scarcity.
As the demand for donor organs continues to rise, in large part due to the aging population, the
supply
has remained relatively constant.
And that neighbor was unable to conduct any military operations because their fuel
supply
was locked up.
And so they had a ready
supply
of converts.
So we could easily
supply
the world with dozens, maybe hundreds, of new cities.
There's a big pipe with the blood flowing through it, and around that pipe are the nerves drawing their nutrient
supply
from the blood.
Next
Related words
Demand
Chains
Global
Which
Would
Money
Their
Countries
Could
Prices
There
Energy
Chain
Growth
World
Other
Labor
Economy
Water
About