Sentence examples for import dependency from inspiring English sources

Already, this combination has caused import dependency to retreat to around half of total consumption.

For the moment, Italy's leading position in import dependency looks secure.

The penny has finally dropped that low carbon can also mean low import dependency and increased security.

Increasing import dependency puts us at the mercy of not only volatile global energy markets, but both physical and political energy security issues.

As late as 2010, dire warnings were being sounded about the risk to the UK from gas import dependency in the face of dwindling UK supplies.

Citing the United States and Poland, with the largest estimated reserves in Europe, as examples, he urged Romania to reduce its import dependency.

"They have a lot of money, a lack of energy security, and their import dependency is not getting any better," said Paul Ting, an expert on China energy policy who runs an industry consultancy firm.

"We [Britain] import around 1.5tcf, we consume around 3tcf a year, assuming you could recover technically something like 10 to 15% of the shale gas in place, then it could move import dependency out for about 10 to 15 years," he said.

But by 2020, our oil-import dependence is likely to be in the region of 45-60 per cent, and some estimates suggest gas-import dependency could be 70 per cent or more.

With the capitalist boom of the 1970s, the wealthier classes began eating more meat, domestic crops were diverted to feed livestock and an import-dependency on USAid began, to "feed the poor", whose bread was now being eaten by the rich's cows.

The Composite index (CI) includes the following indicators important for natural gas supply security: Energy Import Dependency Index, Energy Intensity, Gross Inland Consumption, Index of National Economy Dependence on Natural Gas, Herfindahl-Hirschman Index and Shannon-Wiener Index.