In temperate climates including Europe, indigo was obtained primarily from woad (Isatis tinctoria), an indigenous plant of Assyria and the Levant which has been grown in Northern Europe over 2,000 years, although from the 18th century it was mostly replaced by superior Indian indigo imported by the British East India Company.
Smith urged the liberated colonies to produce primary products for export and to import superior British manufactures, and certainly not to attempt to monopolize crucial goods, particularly cotton.
The main target of this paper was to investigate the effect of enrichment with cod liver oil and vitamin C on the chemical composition of local Egyptian Artemia (A. tunisiana) which has some deficiencies in order to introduce superior species to battle the imported ones and finally grow to be a successful economic activity.
Lastly, throughout Micronesia there has been an erroneous belief that imported foods were superior to local foods.
By the 1830s, China was producing large quantities of opium domestically, though the imported drug was judged superior.
I suggest to Oksanen, though, that the German officers – with their superior manners, ingenious pigeon snares and imported bathtubs – emerge in a better light than their Russian counterparts.
If you think an olive oil imported from Italy or Spain is superior to one made in California, U.S. olive oil producers would like to have a word with you.
As Washington wrings its hands about dependence on imported oil, American companies will ship a superior, cleaner fuel overseas.
According to current manager Miran Kourounlian, the company's success is due to its traditional preparation methods and the quality of the beef, which is superior overall to that found in Greece, since it is imported from Argentina.
"It is possible," the two scientists wrote, that Dr. Neel "thought that genetically superior members" of those isolated groups "might prove to have differential levels of immunity and, thus, higher rates of survival to imported diseases".
