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And she told me, "Never import other people's limitations."
Now we're the country that has full-time lobbyists in the European Union and Washington DC, threatening trade wars when these countries talk about wanting to bring in positive legislation to limit the import of high-carbon fuels, of greenhouse gas emissions, anything like this, at international conferences, whether they're in Copenhagen or Cancun, international conferences on climate change, we're the country that gets the dinosaur award every single day, as being the biggest obstacle to progress on this issue.
Things stick around for years sometimes before you understand why you're interested in them, before you understand their import to you.
It's actually a bigger footprint if we take into account the embodied energy in the stuff we import into our country as well.
Every year Africa spends 20 billion dollars to import food.
Now, traditional sector is where Africa produces its agriculture, which is one of the reasons why Africa can't feed itself, and that's why it must import food.
We import 50,000 metric tons of sugar from Brazil and Cuba.
We import 90 percent of our food, and we only cultivate less than one percent of our land.
I think we're all in this room, probably, because we know that, in fact, Africa is the only region in the world where hunger and malnutrition are projected to go up over the next 10 years, where the food import bill is now double what it was 20 years ago, where food production per capita has stagnated, and where fertilizer use has declined rather than increased.
I think this is a really important conversation that we're having in the United States and internationally, and I think it is important and of import, and so given that, we need to have that be a fact-based conversation, and we want to help make that happen.
Ninety-five percent of it goes to international relief agencies, that then have to import resources into these areas, and knit together some type of temporary health system, let's say, which they then dismantle and send away when they run out of money.
One of the more touchy political subjects in Bhutan is the use of Indian cheap labor that they import from India to build the roads, and then they send these people home once the roads are built.
And up until that time, he had a friend who used to travel to India, and he used to import, bring him, could get him a generic version of it.
First, paper as a filler, instead of the aggregate we import.
Will we in the United States continue to import efficient cars to replace foreign oil, or will we make efficient cars and import neither the oil nor the cars?
Or we could, of course, just get this little bit by continuing to import some Canadian and Mexican oil, or the ethanol the Brazilians would love to sell us.
High import duties often compound the problem, sometimes doubling the price of a car.
Making stuff is important, especially for nation-states wanting to boost employment, increase skills and reduce import dependence.
Basically, Rome had access to the sea, which made it possible for it to import food from a very long way away.
We cut customs duties, we reduced import duties, and we got all the multinationals coming in, with multinational budgets, who looked at per-capita income and got very excited about the possibilities in India, and were looking for a vehicle to reach every Indian.
I mean, we've essentially been exporting oil spills when we import oil from places without tight environmental regulations.
The use of the Second World War as a backdrop was in itself a cliché...the bombs, the sheltering in tube stations etc...employed to import a bit of much-needed drama.
Clearly the import of the decision is obvious - you don't need to treat the audience as idiots.
With such a limited number of foreign movies issued in the USA, why in the world would anybody want to import this drivel.
'Hi-De-Hi!' suggested to me a bad quiz show hosted by Leslie Crowther or worse an inane U.S. import.
Without having to pay ridiculous import charges from Europe.
There is a reference to Ma beating Birdie Hicks for first prize at the fair for her quilt, an import scene in The Egg and I.
If you get the opportunity to see this one in the theatre it is worth a 30 minute drive, otherwise buy the import DVD before someone screws it up by giving it a bad dub.
not much import to this film,its more escapism than anything.its
The narration by three different German narrators (German film historian Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg) is solid, and Herzog goes on and on of Eisner's import to this project, himself, and film history, but the English speaker of the translation, James William Gledhill, has a voice that seems downright deific, which lends itself far more perfectly to this project, even though much of the text- in either language, is rather superfluous.
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