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desire and trade
In December 2009, Namibia's Foreign Minister, Marko Hausiku met with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin and noted the economic, science, technical and cultural agreements in place between the two countries and expressed a desire to improve the trade relations.
It has been argued that Roman Britain ’ s continental trade peaked in the late 1st century AD and thereafter declined as a result of an increasing reliance on local products by the population of Britain, caused by economic development on the island and by the Roman state ’ s desire to save money by shifting away from expensive long-distance imports.
Thirdly, British interest in East Africa was first stimulated by their desire to abolish the slave trade.
Māori chiefs were motivated by a desire for protection from foreign powers, the establishment of governorship over European settlers and traders in New Zealand, and to allow for wider settlement that would increase trade and prosperity for Māori.
Combined with constant competition from the Spanish this led to a desire for secrecy about every trade route and every colony.
Safe trade is a slogan advocated by Greenpeace in its desire to " green " the World Trade Organisation and the Doha Development Round.
They were long-serving classicists, presiding over a learned business that printed 5 or 10 titles each year, such as Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon ( 1843 ), and they displayed little or no desire to expand its trade.
" He identified these as being the drive to find new and profitable commercial opportunities outside Europe as well as the desire to create an alternative trade network to that controlled by the Muslim Empire of the Middle East, which was viewed as a commercial, political and religious threat to European Christendom.
But, while many natives were lured to join the missions out of curiosity and sincere desire to participate and engage in trade, many found themselves trapped once they were baptised.
The British desire to trade with South America grew during the Industrial Revolution and the loss of their 13 colonies in North America during the American Revolution.
Perhaps one of the most famous " authentic " folk heroes of the lumber trade was Joseph Montferrand, better known as Big Joe Mufferaw, a French-Canadian logger known for his physical prowess and desire to protect the French Canadian logger.
Returning from Russia in 1554, Chancellor brought a detailed description of Moscow and the Russian north, which were largely unknown to Europe, as well as a letter from the Tsar expressing desire to establish trade relations with England.
The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain their city as the second port of the country and the chief one for American trade.
This hostility emerged from three sources: grievances at British violations of American sovereignty, restriction of American trade by Britain, and an American desire to gain territory by invading and annexing the poorly-defended British North American colonies.
A major cause of the wars was the desire of each country to control of the interior territories of North America, as well as the region around Hudson Bay ; both were deemed essential to domination of the fur trade.
This development created a new desire for trade, and trade expanded in the second half of the Middle Ages.
The need for silver coinage also had an impact on the desire for expanded exploration as silver and gold were spent for trade to the Middle and Far East.
" Free trade advocates desire the elimination of all market distorting mechanisms ( subsidies, tariffs, regulations ) and argue that, as with free trade in all areas, this will result in aggregate benefit for all.
A. Livingston, Philadelphia Bulletin, " for his reports on the growth of economic independence among Russia's Eastern European satellites and his analysis of their desire for a resumption of trade with the West.
As a result, the Torghuts established a trading relationship with the newly established outposts of the Tsarist government whose expansion into and exploration of Siberia was motivated mostly by the desire to profit from trade with Asia.
These allowed for the synthesis of Britain's desire for full employment and economic stability and the United States ' desire for free trade.

desire and directly
Because of the large number of award categories ( 78 in 2012 ), and the desire to feature several performances by various artists, only the ones with the most popular interest are presented directly at the televised award ceremony.
It has been already argued that desires cannot be measured directly, but only indirectly, by the outward phenomena to which they give rise: and that in those cases with which economics is chiefly concerned the measure is found in the price which a person is willing to pay for the fulfilment or satisfaction of his desire.
Envy can be directly related to the Ten Commandments, specifically " Neither shall you desire ... anything that belongs to your neighbour ".
For instance, a belief that I ought to do X, in some theories, can directly cause me to do X without my having to want to do X ( i. e. have a desire to do X ).
Their desire is to create an artificial limb that ties directly into the nervous system.
Because of the large number of award categories ( 42 in 2012 ), and the desire to feature several performances by various artists, only the ones with the most popular interest are presented directly at the televised version of the award ceremony.
His decision was directly influenced by his father's desire of having a son that practiced boxing.
The desire to do so led directly to the decision in 1788 to call the Estates-General into session.
The desire to control the Klang Valley led directly to the Selangor Civil War ( sometimes called the Klang War ) of 1867 – 1874 when Raja Mahdi fought to regain what he considered his birthright as territorial chief against Raja Abdullah.
Western historians believe the events at Zhenbao Island and the subsequent border clashes in Xinjiang caused Mao to re-appraise China's foreign policy and to seek rapprochement with the United States, while Russian historians point out that the consequences of the conflict stem directly from the desire of the PRC to take a leading role in the world and strengthen ties with the US.
A further dissent motion was raised on 7 December 2004, regarding questions asked relating to public affairs but not directly regarding the subject's portfolio, specifically, the desire of the Opposition to question De-Anne Kelly to her supposed approval of funding of a project not relating to her portfolio of Veterans ' Affairs.
Speaking before the Foreign Affairs Commission on the Chamber of Deputies in October 1938, Bonnet spoke of his desire to " restructure " the French alliance system in Eastern Europe and of his wish to " renegotiate " treaties which might bring France into a war " when French security is not directly threatened ".
Direct election is a term describing a system of choosing political officeholders in which the voters directly cast ballots for the person, persons or political party that they desire to see elected.
The consumer's desire to trade causes the potential consumer to become a producer to create goods that can be exchanged for the goods of others, goods are directly or indirectly exchanged for other goods.
As a sign of the desire still prevalent at the time to avoid open revolution, the Association notably opened with a profession of allegiance to the king, and they placed the blame for " a ruinous system of colony administration " upon Parliament and lower British officials rather than the king directly.
If the message model does not completely encapsulate the applications ’ functionality, then other applications that desire that functionality may have to bypass the bus, and invoke the mismatched applications directly.
The availability of cheap online storage ( e. g., on Amazon's S3 service ), and the desire to leverage pre-uploaded online albums ( e. g., on Yahoo's Flickr ) make it more convenient for users to directly compose their digital scrapbooks online.
People can fake orgasms for number of reasons, such as when their partner wants them to orgasm but they are unable, or when they desire to stop having sex but are not comfortable telling their partner directly, avoiding negative consequences, or for pleasing their partner.
The novel also directly examines and illustrates the ways in which women and female desire are silenced by societal conventions.
In psychology, problem solving refers to a state of desire for reaching a definite goal from a present condition that either is not directly moving toward the goal, is far from it, or needs more complex logic for finding a missing description of conditions or steps toward the goal.
The decision to design two types, despite the very small production batches, was motivated by the desire to let them operate in pairs ; the low inconspicuous self-propelled gun would directly ambush enemy vehicles and the higher tank, fitted with a radio set, would be more behind in an oversight position, also with its rotatable turret covering the flanks.
The care-A-van takes riders directly to the address they desire.
" These remarks instilled Hord with a desire to only produce the finest quality pieces and led directly to what was to become one of the defining characteristics of his work, the fine degree of finish that he applied to them.
Similar in many respects to the cinéma vérité genre, it was characterized initially by filmmakers ' desire to directly capture reality and represent it truthfully, and to question the relationship of reality with cinema.

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