Sentence examples for italy used from inspiring English sources

LONDON — If hype and spending power were all that makes a sport, then England is what Italy used to be: the must-see league in soccer.

"Italy used to produce a lot of goods that would feed the German industrial machine," said Jens Sondergaard, an economist at Nomura in London.

Italy used to periodically improve its competitiveness by devaluing the lira, but such a move is not possible now that it uses the euro.

And in November 2003, the imam, Abdel Kader Fadlallah Mamour, was deported to his native Senegal from his home near Turin - the first time Italy used a law allowing the expulsion of radical imams.

Italy used to do deals with Libya's Colonel Muammar Qaddafi to shut off migration routes for a time, though he would periodically threaten to renege and send as many migrants as possible.

While Italy used to be a country of transit, with thousands of migrants historically continuing the journey north to Germany and other countries, it has increasingly become a destination for migrants because of tougher border controls that stop them from leaving.

I am now used to it, and this time I was quite happy to leave Italy.' Used to his return, he means, and used to the absence from paradise.

With the help of US gallery owners, fraudsters based in Catalonia and Italy used eBay to sell the fakes to victims in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe and Japan, US and Spanish law enforcement officials said.

Ursula Wierer, an archaeologist from the provincial Department of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape in Florence, Italy, used high-power microscopes and a CT scanner to examine Ötzi's dagger and arrowheads.

Early pioneering pizzerias – such as America's first, Lombardi's in Little Italy – used the best ingredients, including homemade fresh mozzarella.

The technique, developed by a team of researchers at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy, used a genetically modified virus to correct the damaging mutations in a patient's genes.