Sentence examples for the import of foreign from inspiring English sources

China limits the import of foreign films to no more than 20 each year.

Even so, Brazil's medical associations want to block the import of foreign doctors.

Although visitors may generally bring in reading matter for personal use without interference, the import of foreign publications requires permits.

No one at SARFT was available for comment, but an industry source confirmed the order and said the import of foreign formats was also likely to be limited.

That is the same number of attacks as committed by the CAV (Comité d'action viticole), a French group that campaigns against the import of foreign wine.

IN HIS first term as Peru's president, in the 1980s, Alan García was a firm believer in protectionism, banning the import of foreign cars and even of Chilean wine.

Mr. Bush's victory here four years ago, some experts believe, was propelled in part by Mr. Cheney's hint in Weirton, one of the state's steel-producing centers, that Mr. Bush would be willing to block the import of foreign-made steel that was undercutting local producers.

She added that France was caught between "two steel jaws", saying: "On one side we have the importing of foreign cultures by a wave of foreigners who, unlike those who came before wish to impose a change on our behaviour and our lives.

Protectionism, policy of protecting domestic industries against foreign competition by means of tariffs, subsidies, import quotas, or other restrictions or handicaps placed on the imports of foreign competitors.

In the mid- and late-19th century the country's government implemented laws against obscenity, such as the Tariff of 1842 which banned the importing of foreign works of art deemed obscene.

In ordinary times, the poor, downtrodden, oppressed people would have no chance against the evil empire, no recourse to counter the import of a foreign addition to the already formidable force the enemy had amassed.