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Gort in particular is a computer generated monstrosity that looks like he's been imported straight from a Nintendo 64 game.
It might have been promising if it was not translated, just imported.
Drugs are being imported in to the UK via America which is clearly ridiculous.
The two women figure out that the town is full of Werewolves, and that the key to killing them all is by ringing the bell in the Tower of Drago (imported from Drago, Transylvania stone-by-stone).
The film has managed to humanize the tragedy of the Pakistani people's struggle with fanaticism and imported agendas.
Dishonored is the third of three films that the director/player team of Josef Von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich and the second for Paramount when they were imported from Weimar Germany.
I have to add this production is so special that I purchased a video copy imported from USA at a cost of £140 in early 2000 and now have a downloaded version that I have on DVD.
This one is about as bad as, say PLAN 9, and may just be the worst science fiction production imported from Japan.
Like many European countries, who has seen an increase of immigrants from North Africa and Turkey the last couple of decades, Netherlands also has it's own share of imported culture.
But targeting the consumer price index precludes this, because depreciation would raise the price of imported oil, food, and other tradable commodities.
Technological innovation, either homegrown or imported, typically helps.
Agreed EU-wide immigration rules are needed to reconcile shrinking Europe’s hunger for imported labor with widespread fears of cultural tensions and social unrest.
In 2007 alone, the US imported $790 billion of capital, while the emerging and developing countries exported $714 billion.
Likewise, although renminbi appreciation would diminish export growth, the slowdown would probably not be dramatic, given that China’s export sector is dominated by the processing trade (specifically, the assembly of intermediate inputs imported from countries like Japan and South Korea).
Practically everything that a Russian citizen can find in a supermarket, including the supermarket itself, is produced or imported by private firms.
As Africa urbanizes, people are buying more imported semi- or fully processed foods, which cost more than locally produced foods.
The direct impact is that a stronger dollar reduces the cost of imported goods.
The relevant institutions cannot be built quickly and cannot be imported, ready-made, from abroad.
For example, Cuba has a significant biotechnology industry: it developed the only effective meningitis B vaccine (which, despite the embargo, is imported into the US); and in 1998 it produced 30 tons of transgenic tilapia fish.
And a transformation from imported to indigenous innovation is central to China’s long-term strategy, both to avoid the “middle-income trap” and to achieve great-power status by 2050, as per President Xi Jinping’s “new era” centenary aspirations.
China needs to shift from imported to indigenous innovation to avoid the middle-income trap – a key stumbling block for most developing economies.
In fact, imported cars represent just 15% of domestic car sales, with US imports amounting to just 1%.
Devaluation would also boost average eurozone GDP growth by stimulating exports and encouraging Europeans to substitute domestically produced goods and services for imported items.
The root idea is that such imported laws, once incorporated into domestic legal systems, improve a country’s legal framework and enhance development.
In many cases, however, these imported laws were ignored, selectively enforced, or were complied with only in form, not substance.
Imported legal solutions, it appears, are unlikely to work unless key constituencies - local farmers or business owners, say - support the process of legal transplantation and develop a demand for the legal solutions the transplanted rules offer.
Compatibility of imported rules with existing laws also matters.
These preexisting conditions determine the interpretation of new rules as well as the receptivity of a country to imported rules and concepts;- Application and enforcement of rules is determined by the perceptions of both users and law enforcers.
Voluntary compliance in turn depends on the perception and acceptance of rules by domestic constituencies in the country that imported a law.
It may also be possible to impose taxes on luxury goods (many of which are imported), thereby promoting equity without stifling growth.
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