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    1. there are matters of import contained therein


    2. “Wartime restrictions meant that the import of animals and animal


    3. Then he looked away from her to George and White Feathers still discussing something of import in the doorway of the Mercantile


    4. It was also against the rules to import magical items into his


    5. I was at a loss to see the import of his apparent concerns


    6. Our mission is of such import that it


    7. Zarko felt the blood drain into his legs and feet as the full import of her words hit home


    8. torment? You certainly have to import an alien meaning to the definition of the


    9. They could frequently buy more advantageously with gold and silver, than with any other commodity, the foreign goods which they wanted, either to import into their own, or to carry to some other foreign country


    10. But if there were an effectual demand for grain to the same value, to import it would require, at five guineas a-ton, a million of tons of shipping, or a thousand ships of a thousand tons each

    11. If, on the contrary, in any particular country, their quantity fell short of the effectual demand, so as to raise their price above that of the neighbouring countries, the government would have no occasion to take any pains to import them


    12. To import the gold and silver which may be wanted into the countries which have no mines, is, no doubt a part of the business of foreign commerce


    13. To any country which was highly improved throughout, it would be more advantageous to import its lean cattle than to breed them


    14. If England, for example, should import from France nothing but the native commodities of that country, and not having such commodities of its own as were in demand there, should annually repay them by sending thither a large quantity of foreign goods, tobacco, we shall suppose, and East India goods ; this trade, though it would give some revenue to the inhabitants of both countries, would give more to those of France than to those of England


    15. A nation may import to a greater value than it exports for half a century, perhaps, together; the gold and silver which comes into it during all this time, may be all immediately sent out of it; its circulating coin may gradually decay, different sorts of paper money being substituted in its place, and even the debts, too, which it contracts in the principal nations with whom it deals, may be gradually increasing; and yet its real wealth, the exchangeable value of the annual produce of its lands and labour, may, during the same period, have been increasing in a much greater proportion


    16. It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc


    17. They seem, however, to have found some difficulty in importing European wines from the places of their growth; and they could not well import them from Great Britain, where they were loaded with many heavy duties, of which a considerable part was not drawn back upon exportation


    18. It increased the business of the corn merchant in both; and in the years of scarcity, it not only enabled him to import a greater quantity, but to sell it for a better price, and consequently with a greater profit, than he could otherwise have made, if the plenty of one year had not been more or less hindered from relieving the scarcity of another


    19. It was an Indian import which, legends


    20. But unless the surplus can, in all ordinary cases, be exported, the growers will be careful never to grow more, and the importers never to import more, than what the bare consumption of the home market requires

    21. First, the tax in Spain, the prohibition in Portugal of exporting gold and silver, and the vigilant police which watches over the execution of those laws, must, in two very poor countries, which between them import annually upwards of six millions sterling, operate not only more directly, but much more forcibly, in reducing the value of those metals there, than the corn laws can do in Great Britain


    22. And Mr Blotter, the unseasoned young clerk who availed himself of the attic, knew that at that signal, Mrs Pilfer, the goodly gentleman's cook, housekeeper and much more besides, would quickly wash down the brandy and water that she was nursing, and rush to charge Mr Snickerty 's table with such vittles as are required by a gentleman of import, when he returns home from a busy day in his chambers


    23. Land is still so cheap, and, consequently, labour so dear among them, that they can import from the mother country almost all the more refined or more advanced manufactures cheaper than they could make them for themselves


    24. The sudden loss of the employment, even of the ships which import the eighty-two thousand hogsheads of tobacco, which are over and above the consumption of Great Britain, might alone be felt very sensibly


    25. If, at any particular time, that part of the capital of any country which of its own accord tended and inclined, if I may say so, towards the East India trade, was not sufficient for carrying on all those different branches of it, it would be a proof that, at that particular time, that country was not ripe for that trade, and that it would do better to buy for some time, even at a higher price, from other European nations, the East India goods it had occasion for, than to import them itself directly from the East Indies


    26. The home consumer is obliged to submit to this inconvenience, in order that the producer may import into the distant country some of his productions, upon more advantageous terms than he otherwise would have been allowed to do


    27. “East of here, Columbia has to import about everything, including water from America, which is by far the largest country on the continent


    28. By means of the industry of merchants, artificers, and manufacturers, the proprietors and cultivators can purchase both the foreign goods and the manufactured produce of their own country, which they have occasion for, with the produce of a much smaller quantity of their own labour, than what they would be obliged to employ, if they were to attempt, in an awkward and unskilful manner, either to import the one, or to make the other, for their own use


    29. The constant view of such companies is always to raise the rate of their own profit as high as they can; to keep the market, both for the goods which they export, and for those which they import, as much understocked as they can ; which can be done only by restraining the competition, or by discouraging new adventurers from entering into the trade


    30. The committee are forbid to export negroes from Africa, or to import any African goods into Great Britain

    31. We were down to the last week, and I discovered that the microchip I’d had implanted in Marg after the running-away episode might not be sufficient identification to import her to France


    32. ” The import of Katie’s words struck with a vengeance


    33. Any (American) company operating abroad and selling cheaply made products at ―home‖ at an exorbitant profit, should, in my opinion, be hit with the stiffest import tariffs imaginable to help defray the social costs incurred by the taxpayer for individuals who have otherwise lost their jobs or are (under-employed)


    34. Fury roiled within her as the full import of the scene took hold


    35. It was now a crime to import slaves or for US citizens or ships to take part in the international slave trade, though slave trading inside the US was still legal


    36. The first oil crunch in 1973 brought a few small import cars


    37. Segregated camps were a US import, causing thousands of deaths


    38. Primitive societies, fascinated with the birth canal, seem to have missed the import of the feminine head, covered or not


    39. The wave was chosen by the manager, if Sim’s guess was of any import


    40. All we could see was starlight shining upon the desert once more, as if nothing of import had occurred

    41. What had they found out so far that they could use? Almost nothing of import


    42. ” She felt her lower lip and chin quiver anew at the import of what she had just declared and was inwardly amazed


    43. The names are not of as great an import as is the desire of the user of them!


    44. It avoids economic retaliations or conflicts of interests among the country-members, as well as it puts an end to contraband, robbery, tax, import quota and wash of the money


    45. and realize the full import of the only true statement you can


    46. 3 And all the wise men of the king and his conjurors were astonished at the sight, and the sages understood this matter, and they knew its import


    47. Only a few facts of regional import will be included here


    48. So, they have to import Korean women to


    49. Elliott a moron, as cited, “no one but a moron overlooks the import of an


    50. Denmark is just dependent enough on wind power that when the wind is not blowing right they must import electricity













































    1. Their leader had died of an imported pathogen just three local years ago


    2. Compsilura concinnata is a fly that was imported from Europe to combat the gypsy moth


    3. He had Italian marble imported from Rome for columns


    4. Lawrence, an ancient cyborg who had imported the first of the Brazilian pills at any cost


    5. Others offered a medley of fruit, including items clearly imported


    6. Most religions provide an answer and there are two main scientific theories, the created theory and the imported theory


    7. imported from the coast specifically for the occasion


    8. The greater part of the apples, and even of the onions, consumed in Great Britain, were, in the last century, imported from Flanders


    9. thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is


    10. distant parts of the same country, imported into the town; in which case, too, the original price

    11. The price which the town really pays for the provisions and materials annually imported into


    12. The high duties upon foreign manufactures, and upon all goods imported by


    13. Their lands, therefore, have been principally employed in the production of grass, the more bulky commodity, and which cannot be so easily brought from a great distance; and corn, the food of the great body of the people, has been chiefly imported from foreign countries


    14. What is there called the quintal, weighs from a hundred and fifty to two hundred Paris pounds, or a hundred and seventy-five Paris pounds at a medium, which reduces the price of the hundred weight English to about eight shillings sterling; not a fourth part of what is commonly paid for the brown or muscovada sugars imported from our colonies, and not a sixth part of what is paid for the finest white sugar


    15. He had to go all the way thru Origin of humans – imported theory, from? And wouldn't it be likely that not all humans would have been moved to Kassidor? She told him what YingolNeerie was like and what those machines animated by ghosts really were


    16. Thus, in 1436, it was enacted, that wheat might be exported without a licence when the price was so low as six shillings and eightpence: and in 1463, it was enacted, that no wheat should be imported if the price was not above six shillings and eightpence the quarter: The legislature had imagined, that when the price was so low, there could be no inconveniency in exportation, but that when it rose higher, it became prudent to allow of importation


    17. Those who imported that metal into Europe, however, would soon find that the whole annual importation could not be disposed of at this high price


    18. At present, the value of the tea annually imported by the English East India company, for the use of their own countrymen, amounts to more than a million and a half a year; and even this is not enough; a great deal more being constantly smuggled into the country from the ports of Holland, from Gottenburgh in Sweden, and from the coast of France, too, as long as the French East India company was in prosperity


    19. The quantity of gold and silver imported at both Cadiz and Lisbon (including not only what comes under register, but what may be supposed to be smuggled) amounts, according to the best accounts, to about six millions sterling a-year


    20. The account of what was imported under register, he assures us, is exact

    21. He informs us, too, that if we were to judge of the quantity of gold annually imported from the Brazils to Lisbon, by the amount of the tax paid to the king of Portugal, which it seems, is one-fifth of the standard metal, we might value it at eighteen millions of cruzadoes, or forty-five millions of French livres, equal to about twenty millions sterling


    22. The produce of all the other mines which are known is insignificant, it is acknowledged, in comparison with their's ; and the far greater part of their produce, it is likewise acknowledged, is annually imported into Cadiz and Lisbon


    23. The proportion between the quantities of gold and silver annually imported into Europe, according to Mr Meggens' account, is as one to twenty-two nearly ; that is, for one ounce of gold there are imported a little more than twenty-two ounces of silver


    24. The capitals of the British manufacturers who work up the flax and hemp annually imported from the coasts of the Baltic, are surely very useful to the countries which produce them


    25. If those two or three distinct foreign trades should happen to be carried on by two or three distinct merchants, of whom the second buys the goods imported by the first, and the third buys those imported by the second, in order to export them again, each merchant, indeed, will, in this case, receive the returns of his own capital more quickly ; but the final returns of the whole capital employed in the trade will be just as slow as ever


    26. That when the country exported to a greater value than it imported, a balance became due to it from foreign nations, which was necessarily paid to it in gold and silver, and thereby increased the quantity of those metals in the kingdom


    27. But that when it imported to a greater value than it exported, a contrary balance became due to foreign nations, which was necessarily paid to them in the same manner, and thereby diminished that quantity : that in this case, to prohibit the exportation of those metals, could not prevent it, but only, by making it more dangerous, render it more expensive: that the exchange was thereby turned more against the country which owed the balance, than it otherwise might have been; the merchant who purchased a bill upon the foreign country being obliged to pay the banker who sold it, not only for the natural risk, trouble, and expense of sending the money thither, but for the extraordinary risk arising from the prohibition; but that the more the exchange was against any country, the more the balance of trade became necessarily against it; the money of that country becoming necessarily of so much less value, in comparison with that of the country to which the balance was due


    28. When the quantity of gold and silver imported into any country exceeds the effectual demand, no vigilance of government can prevent their exportation


    29. Besides the three sorts of gold and silver above mentioned, there is in all great commercial countries a good deal of bullion alternately imported and exported, for the purposes of foreign trade


    30. The whole gold and silver annually imported into both Spain and Portugal, according to the best accounts, does not commonly much exceed £6,000,000 sterling, which, in some years, would scarce have paid four months expense of the late war

    31. The two principles being established, however, that wealth consisted in gold and silver, and that those metals could be brought into a country which had no mines, only by the balance of trade, or by exporting to a greater value than it imported ; it necessarily became the great object of political economy to diminish as much as possible the importation of foreign goods for home consumption, and to increase as much as possible the exportation of the produce of domestic industry


    32. First, restraints upon the importation of such foreign goods for home consumption as could be produced at home, from whatever country they were imported


    33. If the importation of foreign cattle, for example, were made ever so free, so few could be imported, that the grazing trade of Great Britain could be little affected by it


    34. Irish cattle could never be imported for their use, but must be drove through those very extensive countries, at no small expense and inconveniency, before they could arrive at their proper market


    35. Lean cattle, therefore, could only be imported; and such importation could interfere not with the interest of the feeding or fattening countries, to which, by reducing the price of lean cattle it would rather be


    36. The small quantity of salt provisions imported from Ireland since their importation was rendered free, is an experimental proof that our graziers have nothing to apprehend from it


    37. The small quantity of foreign corn imported even in times of the greatest scarcity, may satisfy our farmers that they can have nothing to fear from the freest importation


    38. The average quantity imported, one year with another, amounts only, according to the very well informed author of the Tracts upon the Corn Trade, to 23,728 quarters of all sorts of grain, and does not exceed the five hundredth and seventy-one part of the annual consumption


    39. By means of it, the plenty of one year does not compensate the scarcity of another; and as the average quantity exported is necessarily augmented by it, so must likewise, in the actual state of tillage, the average quantity imported


    40. If there were no bounty, as less corn would be exported, suit is probable that, one year with another, less would be imported than at present

    41. Fourthly, Salt fish of all kinds, whale fins, whalebone, oil, and blubber, not caught by and cured on board British vessels, when imported into Great Britain, are subject to double aliens duty


    42. Even the ancient aliens duty, which used to be paid upon all goods, exported as well as imported, has, by several subsequent acts, been taken off from the greater part of the articles of exportation


    43. When the necessaries of life have been taxed in any country, it becomes proper, they pretend, to tax not only the like necessaries of life imported from other countries, but all sorts of foreign goods which can come into competition with any thing that is the produce of domestic industry


    44. Thus, in Great Britain, Silesia lawns may be imported for home consumption, upon paying certain duties; but French cambrics and lawns are prohibited to be imported, except into the port of London, there to be warehoused for exportation


    45. This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain


    46. equal in value, perhaps, to the prime cost of the whole French goods imported


    47. If it was not with tobacco and East India goods, but with gold and silver, that England paid for the commodities annually imported from France, the balance, in this case, would be supposed uneven, commodities not being paid for with commodities, but with gold and silver


    48. Hence, in Great Britain, and in most other European countries, the extraordinary duties upon almost all goods imported by alien merchants


    49. The same thing may be said of the drawbacks upon the re-exportation of foreign goods imported, which, in Great Britain, generally amount to by much the largest part of the duty upon importation


    50. We imported about ninety-six thousand hogsheads, and the home consumption was not supposed to exceed fourteen thousand














































    1. It seems he sold one of his holiday homes to one Joey Wallace, who got fifteen for importing the white stuff, which is where it gets interesting


    2. "Partly," Jesse answered, "She's missing a few importing factors


    3. First, of the absolute prohibition of exporting wool from England: secondly, of the permission of importing it from Spain, duty free: thirdly, of the prohibition of exporting it from Ireland to another country but England


    4. Thus the prohibition of importing either live cattle or salt provisions from foreign countries, secures to the graziers of Great Britain the monopoly of the home market for butcher's meat


    5. In 1700, the prohibition of importing bone lace into England was taken oft; upon condition that the importation of English woollens into Flanders should be put on the same footing as before


    6. They seem, however, to have found some difficulty in importing European wines from the places of their growth; and they could not well import them from Great Britain, where they were loaded with many heavy duties, of which a considerable part was not drawn back upon exportation


    7. Every European nation has endeavoured, more or less, to monopolize to itself the commerce of its colonies, and, upon that account, has prohibited the ships of foreign nations from trading to them, and has prohibited them from importing European goods from any foreign nation


    8. They abound, therefore, in the rude produce of land ; and instead of importing it from other countries, they have generally a large surplus to export


    9. They have not only obtained a monopoly against the consumers, by an absolute prohibition of importing woollen cloths from any foreign country; but they have likewise obtained another monopoly against the sheep farmers and growers of wool, by a similar prohibition of the exportation of live sheep and wool


    10. In modern times, with the exception of importing cheap(er) labor from (Mexico) or migrating to friendlier working environments in (Right to Work States), a growing number of companies are fulfilling their labor requirements by (Outsourcing) abroad

    11. In 1778, in the Virginia Congress he led efforts to successfully ban importing slaves into Virginia


    12. While still a delegate to Virginia in colonial times, Jefferson successfully pushed for a ban on importing slaves into the state


    13. "So rather than importing 20 million tons of cement per year, the proposed [rule] will lead to cement


    14. If I’m correct, all the work that we are doing here is based on importing logic into the unconscious mind, so we already have this logic part in place


    15. He was there to meet an American businessman who was interested in importing


    16. "So rather than importing 20 million tons of cement per year, the proposed [rule] will lead to cement imports of more than 48 million tons per year


    17. Which is what we are doing for we are importing around two thirds of our petroleum needs


    18. Most recently, the government has been importing


    19. They plan to continue importing bears, pledging to increase numbers to 30


    20. Rather than importing moon bears from Russia and other countries to preserve a

    21. Roger slowly sipped the hundred and fifty-year-old brandy that he was known for importing from Khafra to Amber and rolled it on his tongue


    22. pornography for the purpose of importing it into Canada


    23. Harry was making millions of dollars importing literally tons of kef and hashish into Australia, all of it coming out of Lebanon through one of Yusuf’s discrete connections


    24. Consoles and the games for them are easily acquired however, as there is a robust grey market importing and distributing them across the country


    25. The Black Hand has now been importing slave girls from the past for close to two months now, relative Imperium time


    26. To feed their zombie horde, they are, ironically, importing all their children's previous villages and nations as a natural food source, with help from Warganic's


    27. were rumours he supplemented his salary with importing Afghan heroin through


    28. We contacted a garage that dealt with cars from the VW family and asked about the cost of importing and converting a Skoda Octavia


    29. They had moved into importing


    30. Not only had Crass and Robert confessed to importing and burning pirated movies

    31. Tull was a shady character in the business of importing opium,


    32. The revolution, by its policy of encouraging the local industries had given a death blow to all importing enterprises and Amy's boyfriend decided to move on to Greece


    33. By importing the idea of disposable people, who can be hired and fired into modern society


    34. They insisted upon importing their own foreign culture and preserving it without absorbing one single cultural lesson from the people who had been already living on this continent for over 10,000 years


    35. Importing the destruction of volcanic devastation into a new land that had been cleaned and scoured by countless Ice Ages until it was so clean, so freshly alive and so innocent of evil; all the living creatures in North America were easy prey for the white Europeans to slaughter them


    36. Not that he ever said anything, or did anything, openly importing hostility; I only noticed that he always beat his sparks in my direction, and that whenever I sang Old Clem, he came in out of time


    37. Drummle would bring never so slight a certificate from the lady, importing that he had the honor of her acquaintance, Mr


    38. Tess had nothing to say against the proposal, and the next she heard of this plan for importing old Talbothays' joys was two or three


    39. China is the world’s top importer of soybeans, importing 37


    40. If you want to spend only some of your saved bitcoins and keep the rest in a paper wallet, after importing your private key into a hot wallet, you should immediately store the remainder of your bitcoins in a new paper wallet (paper wallets are one-time use only)

    41. But be sure to prepare the new paper wallet ahead of time before importing bitcoins from the old paper wallet


    42. An advantage of offline transaction signing instead of just importing keys from paper wallets is that a cold-to-hot storage transition never happens


    43. The United States begins importing more Brazilian oranges


    44. We start with importing the required modules and declaring a few Enum parameters [j


    45. Such a man could come from no place, no society, without importing something to amuse; his journeys and his acquaintance were all of use, and Susan was entertained in a way quite new to her


    46. of France, at his own personal expense, fit out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and politely invite to that town some score or two of families from our own island of Nantucket? Why did Britain between the years 1750 and 1788 pay to her whalemen in bounties upwards of L1,000,000? And lastly, how comes it that we whalemen of America now outnumber all the rest of the banded whalemen in the world; sail a navy of upwards of seven hundred vessels; manned by eighteen thousand men; yearly consuming 4,000,000 of dollars; the ships worth, at the time of sailing, $20,000,000! and every year importing into our harbors a well reaped harvest of $7,000,000


    47. Duties cannot be collected, unless vessels importing dutiable merchandise arrive in port; whatever, therefore, tends to secure their safe arrival may be exercised under the general power; the erection of light-houses does facilitate the safe arrival of vessels in port, and Congress therefore can exercise this right as incidental to the power to lay imposts and duties


    48. Disguise this question as you will, sir, and still it will clearly appear to be a contest between a few importing States and the people of the United States


    49. If this bank is removed, the Secretary of the Treasury must nationalize the bank paper of the great importing States; for, I presume, Congress will never decide what State paper shall be used by the officers of the General Government


    50. The former are under the necessity of importing and of consuming more of the foreign manufactures, than the Southern States; and though they are a hardy race, they are not able to encounter the severities and rigors of the Northern winters without a much greater quantity of clothing than is necessary for the people in the Southern climates


    1. The high price of exchange, too, would naturally dispose the merchants to endeavour to make their exports nearly balance their imports, in order that they might have this high exchange to pay upon as small a sum as possible


    2. When neither of them imports from from other to a greater amount than it exports to that other, the debts and credits of each may compensate one another


    3. But when one of them imports from the other to a greater value than it exports to that other, the former necessarily becomes indebted to the latter in a greater sum than the latter becomes indebted to it: the debts and credits of each do not compensate one another, and money must be sent out from that place of which the debts overbalance the credits


    4. The ordinary course of exchange, therefore, being an indication of the ordinary state of debt and credit between two places, must likewise be an indication of the ordinary course of their exports and imports, as these necessarily regulate that state


    5. England may be obliged to send out every year money to Holland, though its annual exports to that country may exceed very much the annual value of its imports from thence, and though what is called the balance of trade may be very much in favour of England


    6. Trading is essentially based on demand and supply and it is what results in imports and exports of each country


    7. The one exports what can subsist and accommodate but a very few, and imports the subsistence and accommodation of a great number


    8. The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only


    9. A much more sober and judicious writer, Mr Anderson, author of the Historical and Chronological Deduction of Commerce, very justly observes, that upon examining the accounts which Mr Dobbs himself has given for several years together, of their exports and imports, and upon making proper allowances for their extraordinary risk and expense, it does not appear that their profits deserve to be envied, or that they can much, if at all, exceed the ordinary profits of trade


    10. Their food was a mix of fish, processed algae protein and regular imports from Callisto

    11. Our exports, in consequence of these different frauds, appear upon the custom-house books greatly to overbalance our imports, to the unspeakable comfort of those politicians, who measure the national prosperity by what they call the balance of trade


    12. imports of more than 48 million tons per year


    13. Also, as producing unit, it is fragmented, acting each one for itself in that its survival or profit is what imports it, even if it has to end with the planet


    14. car prices are higher than imports


    15. After a good lunch, Roger went up to his favorite deck ten to contemplate the beauty of the city and the port, in particular Princess Wharf where the ship was berthed and where eighty percent of New Zealand’s imports and exports are


    16. "So rather than importing 20 million tons of cement per year, the proposed [rule] will lead to cement imports of more than 48 million tons per year


    17. complicated, even though the imports are legal in Brazil, people still prefer to buy on


    18. Zimbabwe, Africa was experiencing a growing famine because of the central-controlling dictator, Robert Mugabe, and his violent suppression of any entrepreneurial food productivity and of food imports


    19. There were acres of Viennese torte under mountains of whipped cream, exotic imports from the tropics such as pineapple and oranges, and even the lowly banana made a joyful comeback


    20. imports is widely followed and an important indicator of a country’s overall economic

    21. It’s better to have more exports than imports, as exports help grow a country’s economy and reflect the overall health of its manufacturing sector


    22. when they feature a member of the royal family on the cover, these Eastern imports


    23. “It was the manufacturer and original vendor for the devices and Abacus Trading Company was the buyer and middleman for the ultimate transfer and sale of the stuff to Osaka Imports in Japan


    24. Rory carefully told his mother all about his investigation of the illegal Drug distribution and sales racket in South Africa – emphasizing the fact that the bulk of the incoming drugs were being brought through Customs, hidden in Heavy Machinery imports, which made all importers in this category, suspect until proven otherwise


    25. He kept total control of that city unlike Albans where the Governor controlled the Oldland’s imports and Newland’s exports


    26. Well mayst thou know now what his speech imports


    27. The AECA places major restrictions and quotas on ivory imports


    28. Turkey, a past ally of Israel, was now officially boycotting all imports from Israel and was threatening to send troops with air defense missiles to protect the Lebanese capital, Beirut, and its international airport, from Israeli airstrikes


    29. However, at the end of the 80's imports had become deregulated and our local large


    30. with cheap imports they simply couldn't keep up

    31. That too was getting them nowhere; detectable imports were negligible


    32. Allied with their stranglehold on Earth’s imports from space, that means that they have for all intents and purposes won the war today, with the destruction of our orbital fortresses


    33. To the surprise and profound emotion of Mai, Nancy stopped her carriage in front of a boutique that specialized in oriental imports


    34. These affected ports handle a very large percentage of the imports and exports for the U


    35. ‘China would like to continue measures to increase imports from Kenya and promote a balanced growth of bilateral trade’ the President had said


    36. 1998 saw a slowing in the rate of increase of gas' share and a fall in the share of imports enabling both coal and nuclear to hold their shares of electricity output at the same proportion as in 1997


    37. Imports account for around a third


    38. 3 million tonnes because of a temporary sharp reduction in electricity imports from France, and a higher level of maintenance outages at nuclear stations and some newer Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT)stations


    39. The increase in power station demand was marked by an equivalent increase in steam coal imports, which rose from 10


    40. One of the factors, which imports a certain uncertainty in determining time estimations is weather conditions

    41. The register of external trade will indicate all imports and exports for Namibia


    42. Looking at the trade statistics, Namibia already imports 25% of its products (2006), and the rate is growing at 53% per year for African states


    43. By such sacrifice, it gained God’s Satisfaction with it, and therefore it was called ‘Ardh’ in Arabic which imports this meaning


    44. The word “record” imports that which is recorded about man, I mean, the listed deeds he has rendered in his lifetime


    45. The word “nectar” imports what is pure and immaculate


    46. being a law imports no intrinsic virtue


    47. to own slaves, and stop the imports at a federal level? There was any number


    48. “And every savvy porn customer will know those are bottom of the barrel imports and take their business elsewhere


    49. He imports security and surveillance equipment


    50. Because the African Veldt being in the tropics escaped the effects of the Ice-Ages? Because this eco-system is the original dominant eco-system of the earth …? Because it exports species, lifestyles and adaptations but never imports them? Why? The size of its animals has become smaller: but then again… so has the size of all mammals over the earth













































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    Synonyms for "import"

    import importation consequence moment implication significance meaning signification importee spell introduce from abroad foreign exotic imported from abroad

    "import" definitions

    commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country


    an imported person brought from a foreign country


    the message that is intended or expressed or signified


    a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred


    having important effects or influence


    bring in from abroad


    transfer (electronic data) into a database or document


    indicate or signify