Sentence examples for placed an export from inspiring English sources

Ed Vaizey has placed an export ban on the work.

The British government had placed an export bar on the painting because it had been in England for so long.

Ed Vaizey, Arts minister, placed a temporary export bar on the Raphael to give a final opportunity for someone to raise the money to keep the drawing in the UK.

Off With Her Sale The British government has placed a temporary export ban on a set of mid-19th-century photographs of Alice Liddell, who inspired the Alice in Wonderland stories.

The British government has placed a temporary export ban on a privately owned Picasso "Blue Period" painting, saying that the work – made in 1901 and on loan for decades to the National Gallery in London from the collection of a wealthy family – has become too important to Britain's national heritage to allow it to be sold and to leave the country.

Rescuing a Raphael This week Tessa Blackstone, Britain's minister for the arts, placed a temporary export ban on Raphael's "Madonna of the Pinks," a painting this Renaissance master created about 1507, to give the National Gallery of Art in London time to raise money to keep the work in Britain.

By Kirk Kardashian October 23, 2013 Last week, a significant milestone came and went with surprisingly little fanfare: the fortieth anniversary of the day, in 1973, that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries placed an embargo on oil exports to the United States.

This was the first photographic project ever to be placed under an export ban, and classified as art, when it was saved for the nation in 1975.

Like Labour, the SNP has placed an emphasis on increasing exports by helping smaller companies market their products overseas.

The stagnation of Argentine exports placed an inescapable constraint on the country's growth.

If it were sold to a foreign buyer the government could place a temporary export bar on the work to allow a Briton to purchase it instead.