Sentence examples for importations from inspiring English sources

Other foreign importations, such as jacaranda, royal poinciana (a tree with orange or scarlet flowers), and lebbek (Albizia lebbek; a leguminous tree), have become a characteristic feature of the Egyptian landscape.

The king's treasurer, however, made fun of the Thai importations and wrote the Rama Yagan, in which the high romance and courtly elegance of the 4th-century-bc Ramayana ("The Life of Rama") were given a rustic setting, with hilarious results.

Opium addiction increased, and opium importations grew rapidly during the first century of the Qing dynasty (1644 1911/12).

Police in Britain were hunting for two men from Liverpool who were suspected of using the  operations centre to orchestrate major drug importations into Britain.

The English language is polyglot, drawn from a variety of sources, and its vocabulary has been augmented by importations from throughout the world.

The vocabulary of Modern English is approximately a quarter Germanic (Old English, Scandinavian, Dutch, German) and two-thirds Italic or Romance (especially Latin, French, Spanish, Italian), with copious and increasing importations from Greek in science and technology and with considerable borrowings from more than 300 other languages.

Quotas or quantitative restrictions may prohibit the importation of certain commodities or limit the amounts imported.

Makes curb-crawling, "hit and runs" and the importation of indecent and obscene material arrestable offences.

Certainly, there has been a very different excitement attached to the Royal in the following decades, with the importation of world-class talents such as Sylvie Guillem, Tamara Rojo, Alina Cojocaru and Marianela Nuñez alongside British ballerinas such as Bussell and Sarah Wildor.

"The laws of this country prohibit the importation of drugs and it, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that that occurs, and sometimes we have to cooperate with countries overseas that have the death penalty and it's an unfortunate collateral effect of supplying that information," Phelan said at the time.

From 1879, labour for Fiji's expanding sugar plantations was provided by the importation of indentured workers from India.