I'll speak of foreign grain again, Hope your attention to detain; Let Ministers a duty lay, And make the foreign farmer pay A certain sum on all he send, Of grain into this fertile land.
But Tiberius went a step further, and actually gave bounties on the importation of foreign grain.
It will be recollected that it was in the reign of Tiberius that bounties were first given by the Roman government to the private importers of foreign grain.
Free-trade was to lead to the much-desired substitution of six million quarters of home for six million quarters of foreign grain in three years.
Thence the increasing weight of direct taxation, the augmented importation of foreign grain, the disappearance of free cultivators in the central provinces, the impossibility of recruiting the legions with freemen, and the ruin of the empire.
As this proved a fluctuating and precarious source of supply, a special board, styled the Casa Annonaria, was constituted by government for the regular importation of foreign grain, and retailing of it at a fixed and low price to the people.
The landowners and farmers complained that an import of foreign grain at a nominal duty of 6d.
Burke's Act lasted long enough to introduce a regular import of foreign grain, varying with the abundance or scarcity of the home harvest, yet establishing in the end a systematic preponderance of imports over exports.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreign grain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
