Sentence examples for expensive imports from inspiring English sources

It also encourages domestic consumers to switch from expensive imports to domestic goods.

They were expensive imports, but popular among the Puritans, who despised idleness.

A weaker pound will translate into more expensive imports and therefore higher inflation.

The expensive imports of CO2-intensive fossil fuels will end, too.

We are utterly at the mercy of those increasingly expensive imports.

Her idea is to compete with less expensive imports from China using high-quality local leather — and local labor.

SABMiller produces beer for Uganda using cheap local ingredients rather than expensive imported malt.

A unique folding knife showing two dogs mating, another fabulously expensive import, was also deliberately buried.

China relies on expensive imported alumina, the refined version of bauxite, the ore from which aluminium is made.

Mr. Srinivasan also pointed out that a fuel shortage would force India to buy expensive imported coal, which is polluting.

Many have given up their garden production and depend on expensive, imported products: rice, flour, canned and tinned food.