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And nearly half of all loose tobacco leaves, a product that has resisted the general decline in tobacco consumption, are contraband.Smuggling costs the exchequer around £2.2 billion ($3.5 billion) a year in lost revenues.
In part because of the growth of call centers, total employment of women has resisted the recession, declining less since 2000 than for men, who were particularly hard hit by the slump in manufacturing.
They could tip the city into a decline without even noticing it, for the ecosystem of a great city is a complex and fragile thing.In this section A precarious brilliance Caveat emptor.com Don't give up Protectionism alert Impeachment, Paraguayan-style ReprintsDe profundisLondon has resisted Britain's relative decline.
Mr. Gates, who has resisted making comparisons between Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama, declined to discuss his relationship with the sitting president.
Lee has resisted biographers, including Shields, whose requests for coöperation, he says, she "declined with vigor".
In fact, Mr. Giuliani has resisted engaging Mrs. Clinton on issues she has raised and has typically declined to respond to her attacks.
The Obama administration has resisted growing calls that it make public its legal rationale for the strike, and declined to comment about the matter again on Monday.
Mr. Baz declined to discuss details of the proposal, saying he wanted to give the administration, which has resisted sending monitors, at least two days to study it.
But Cradotex has resisted.
America has resisted both.
