Sentence examples for softwood from inspiring English sources
noun
The wood from any conifer (or from Ginkgo), without regarding how soft this wood is.
- SYP is a softwood, but it is harder than many hardwoods.
He has also put tariffs on softwood lumber, and has tacitly condoned the efforts of Congress to offer more protection to America's dying textile industry.Then came the farm bill, which two months ago overturned the market-based agricultural reforms that were bravely brought in in the 1990s.
For instance, Canadians are furious about the softwood lumber dispute (I had to spend an entire month on it in grad school), and are just itching to clobber some Yankees over it.As Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said (warned?) yesterday, "If any American government chose to make the mistake of reopening that we would have some things we would want to talk about as well".
Brazil has more gunshot deaths per head than any country in the world except Venezuela, according to the United Nations.America's secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, visiting Ottawa, called on Canadians to keep "in perspective" a longstanding dispute over trade in softwood lumber.
Furthermore, the system for grading timber was agreed on by the two countries in 2006, when they settled their previous spat over softwood lumber.Although the American market will one day regain importance for British Columbia, "the time is past when we pretty well had to take what the Americans offered," says Pat Bell, the province's forests minister.
Japan's continuing malaise, the United States' recession and the impact of American duties against softwood imports have all hammered British Columbia.
But on March 22nd the Department of Commerce announced that it would slap a tariff of around 29% on Canadian softwood.
Hardwoods, as their name suggests, tend to be denser and more durable than softwoods.
The strengthened softwoods can be used in everything from window frames to spas to garden furniture.
And since softwoods grow faster than hardwoods, the public and private sectors blanketed hillsides in gloomy Sitka spruce.In this section The enemy of my enemy Tolled you so Mr Adams regrets Déjà new The immigrants' contribution Soft money and hard wood A sour note Could it happen here?
Softwoods are fast-growing coniferous species that account for 80% of the world's timber.
Eucalypts are hardwoods suitable for chipping and construction, and there are only limited supplies of native softwoods such as cedar and hoop pine.
