They say this was because people in Gambia and Ivory Coast had come to depend on imported rice.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

And they protected their markets with high tariffs on imported food.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

They were imported to eat algae and other microscopic organisms.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

Gold miners and others imported them to work.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

The owner imported a carpet and some mirrors.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

Danish brewer Carlsberg has about and analysts estimate the rest is shared by other imported and domestic brands.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

There are vegetables,meat,eggs. The basics are all here, as are imported snacks from the United States and Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

But this plan has also come under criticism. The proposed power plants will burn heavy oil, which must be imported and causes pollution.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

She says when state regulators tested imported shrimp they found it was contaminated with antibiotics and other chemical residues that are illegal in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

For decades,diamond merchants in Surat in western Gujarat state have imported rough stones, and exported them to the United States and Europe after they are cut and polished.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

In SERE training military personnel are subjected to many of the same techniques to toughen them up for possible capture by an enemy - and Ritz says SERE trainers were imported to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"You really need system-wide Skolkovas - Silicon Valley - otherwise it ends up just like under Catherine the Great when they imported a lot of German tradesmen and planted them in various settlements - but they were fairly self-contained.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

And so,once we get out there in the alliance and we start talking about the value that increased trade brings for forest protection, then it's going to allow us to sell the message so that architects and designers can increasingly specify imported wood products.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28