The colonists did not hesitate to refuse to receive tea which England taxed; equally well they could have refused to buy slaves imported by trading companies if they had not wanted them; but they did want them.
By very high taxes levied on imported goods, the price of those was necessarily raised to the consumer, and the American maker of clothes, cutlery, and so on, was enabled to raise his own prices correspondingly.
The master-mind was gone, without having imported the secret of conversing with the golden head to any successor.
This retreat had been fitted up by a poetical politician, who had recently been confined for declaring that the Statue was an old idol originally imported from the Sandwich Isles.
Besides the Tibetan or Chinese candle, we also found imported candles of European manufacture.
In the city the same kinds of things were for sale as were brought to the camp bazaar, but there was a larger variety of imported goods.
They exercise monopoly control not only in selling their own goods abroad but also in disposing of imported goods at home.
Prior to this decree, reexport, of imported goods was permissible only by decree of the Council of Ministers, which rarely considered reexport cases.
Even so, the amount that was actually imported during the year did not equal the $250 million estimate.
Pakistan prohibits the reexport in their original form of all imported materials regardless of origin except in specific cases, each of which is examined on its own merits.
Once the licenses have been granted, it has been to the interest of the Government of Israel to make certain that the commodities are in factimported and used in the Israeli economy.
Airak” is the only intoxicant known to the Mongols, if we except the strong fiery whisky sometimes imported among them by Chinese traders.
The average ad valorem duty paid on dutiable goods imported during the year was 39.
The best reason that could be given for this radical restriction of immigration is the necessity of protecting our population against degeneration and saving our national peace and quiet from imported turbulence and disorder.
The tipplers who could consume three or four bottles of port, in the days of the Georges, probably drank this light wine, which was imported new, and was not a keeping wine.
From Rouen we derive our word "roan" for a horse of a reddish colour, for the first imported Norman horses were known as "Rouens.
Certainly Montreal was now being dominated by the newly-imported royal policy.
These latter began to be imported in 1665, at the same time as the horses.
It is rum or spirits or, in other words, liquor distilled from the sugar cane, imported from the West Indies.
Elliot informs me that a collection imported by an Indian merchant into Madras from Cairo and Constantinople included several kinds unknown in India.
Lastly, an extraordinary pigeon importedfrom Belgium has lately been exhibited at the Philoperisteron Society in London (5/26.
I have seen singular pale-coloured varieties imported from Barbadoes and Demerara.
English dogs imported into India are so valuable that probably due care has been taken to prevent their crossing with native dogs; so that the deterioration cannot be thus accounted for.
Recently a smaller and singular variety has been imported from Sebastopol (8/31.
Desmarest, who paid attention to the subject, describes 15 French races, excluding sub-varieties and those imported from other countries.
The common double moss-rose wasimported into England from Italy about the year 1735.
The Dingo, which breeds freely in Australia with our imported dogs, would not breed though repeatedly crossed in the Jardin des Plantes.
Elliot, however, informs me that he has seen in Madras a short-beaked Runt imported from Cairo.
Malaya and afterwards imported into India, we can understand an observation made to me by Mr. Blyth, that the domestic fowls of India do not resemble the wild G.
New York; and so it is with several varieties which we have imported from the Continent.
The top-knot in a duck which I imported from Holland was two and a half inches in diameter.
Selection cannot be brought into play to produce distinct breeds, or to keep those distinct which have been importedfrom foreign lands.
That I am by turns a Portuguese Jew, a Greek, an Egyptian of Alexandria, from whence I have imported into France hyeroglyphics and sorcery.
There appears to have been considerable manipulation, foreign sugar being imported with the view of producing a panic, followed by a decline of market prices, after which Marseilles refiners would buy.
Statues were imported wholesale from Greece to adorn temples and theatres, constructed after the models of Greek architecture, with pillars, friezes, and floors of precious Pentelic and Sicilian marble.
Several blocks of this material were found some years ago at the Marmorata which had been originally imported from Parthia in the reign of Hadrian.
They imported some kinds also from Cyprus, Spain, and Northern Africa.
See page 460: “Few slaves areimported into Egypt without changing masters several times.
The art of ivory carving was importedfrom the East, the subjects are much alike in ivory and metal when men and animals are represented, and the inscriptions and bands of ornamentation are similar in style.
The manufacture of tiles, as was the case with so many other industries in Spain, was imported by the Arabs.
It was imported originally from America; the great centre existed at Mejico.
As a general rule the finest specimens are also the oldest, for this industry decayed after the Moors were expelled from Spain, and Italian pottery was imported into that country in the 16th century.
It is highly probable that they were productions of Oriental industry and were imported commercially.
In the middle of the 18th century embroideries were introduced in the costumes of men and women when French fashions were imported into Spain.
The wine stocks are imported from the Cape of Good Hope, and the wine has an entirely singular and strange taste, which reminds one of the common Spanish wines.
It was thought that it was imported by some negro slaves from the north.
The paving-stone is imported from the northern states, on this account it is an expensive article, and the paving of the streets can only be gradually effected.
TOWN BALL This game, before beingimported from England, long, long ago, was called "Rounders.
In addition to these imported games, we have, with characteristic originality, invented a lot of games of our own, and in these the boy takes endless delight, without bothering about their origin.
Probably old Hurst has imported a cargo of aristocratic arrogance from Europe, and the young people tell the truth.
Foreign labor is imported to work on plantations, as the natives cannot be depended upon; Chinamen are generally employed.
Some 500 lepers are detained on one island; but there was no leprosy in Fiji, nor other bad diseases affecting the group before Indians were imported to work in the sugar fields.
Sugar growing being the principal industry of southern Natal, the Indian coolie was imported to work in the sugar-cane fields.
Another bird imported from England, the starling, a very dirty and destructive one to berries, is also an eyesore to the people.
Some powerful locomotives in use are of American manufacture and are imported chiefly to pull trains up heavy grades.
Grape stocks were imported from the United States, and the native vine engrafted to the American plant, when the industry again thrived.
Native meat is scarce, as practically no grain or potatoes grow in tropical countries, so European food staples have to be imported to the islands of the South Seas.
Indian cotton is not so good as that grown in the United States, and for this reason hundreds of thousands of bales are imported from America each year to mix with the native product.
But if Lyons manufactured imported silk, why should not Switzerland, Germany, Russia, do as much?
Scotland no longer refines sugar for Russia: refined Russian sugar is imported into England.
The negroes in Morocco are merely slaves imported from the south.
The greater part of the apples, and even of the onions, consumed in Great Britain, were, in the last century, imported from Flanders.
Some parts of it imported into England, might have interfered with some of the trades which they themselves carried on at home.
Irish cattle could never be importedfor their use, but must be drove through those very extensive countries, at no small expense and inconveniency, before they could arrive at their proper market.
If nine-tenths of this quantity areimported from one country, there remains a tenth only to be imported from all others.
Salt, account of foreign salt imported into Scotland, and of Scotch salt delivered duty free for the fishery, 288, Append.
The encouragement given to the importation of the materials of manufacture by bounties, has been principally confined to such as were imported from our American plantations.
Annual amount of these metalsimported into Spain and Portugal, 180.
The average quantity imported and exported compared with the consumption and annual produce, ib.
The true lemon is very rarely cultivated in the Philippines and all lemons used are imported from California, Australia and Spain.
Any excess of burned lime might very readily be sold to other factories, which now use only high-priced imported lime.
Our readers will understand, that at this period nearly all the porcelain used in America was of Chinese manufacture; very little of that elegant article having been, as yet, imported from France.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imported" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
