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    Use "importing" in a sentence

    importing example sentences

    importing


    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


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    Synonyms for "importing"

    importation importing

    "importing" definitions

    the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country