Sentence examples for as the coca from inspiring English sources

As long as the coca price held up, the program languished.

Crop substitution does not work because no other plants are as hardy, fast-growing and profitable as the coca bush or the opium poppy.

As the coca fields have shrunk drastically, the resistance of a hard core of about 2,000 families has grown more fierce.

These include chewing the leaves to mitigate the rigours of Bolivia's bleak Altiplano, 4,000 metres (13,100 feet) above sea level, as well as the coca tea given to tourists on arrival in La Paz.The government, relying on American satellite-derived data, claims that coca cultivation in the Yungas exceeds the legal limit by some 2,000-3,000 hectares.

Which to be fair, they were, but as well as the coca, not instead of it.

There are adaptations of the cocktail in Peru using fruits such as maracuya, aguaymanto, and apples, or traditional ingredients such as the coca leaf.

On some occasions, a well-known global personality is chosen, such as Muhammed Ali at the 'Coca-Cola' Games of Atlanta 1996.

Because, surprisingly, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is ready to buy, and eager enough to flex its atrophied capitalistic muscles that it let a FORBES reporter follow along--and record everything--as the Coca-Cola discussions heated up.

It is also nearly impossible to find a coca farmer here who admits that his crops are sold for anything other than traditional use, but somehow, studies have found, as much as 90percentt of the coca goes to produce cocaine.

Such aural logos are as valuable to the Coca-Cola Company as its contoured bottle.

It's appeared on countless pieces of merchandise, as familiar and timeless as the Coca-Cola script or McDonald's Golden Arches.