We face competition from foreign suppliers.

The key to energy security is diversity of pipelines as well as sources of supply.

They do not lock the customer into a particular vendor or group.

Many of his suppliers are only accepting cash.

For patients and providers alike, this is very good news.

Add an expected accomplishment (c) reading (c) Improvement in efforts to diversify United Nations suppliers , and a corresponding indicator of achievement (c) reading (c) Number of new suppliers registered .

Hua Wei, based in Shenzhen with 14,000 employees (70 of whom are engineers), makes routers and telecommunications switches at half the price of most global companies. Many leading American and European telephone equipment manufacturers fear Hua Wei more than Fujitsu or NEC.

Mexico s oil fields are diminishing, which means that it may need to look for external supplies.

And there is dissatisfaction not just from borrowers, but also from potential suppliers of funds.

This will mean designing foreign partnerships with a view to ensuring that local businesses benefit from technology transfer and training, thereby generating higher value added in domestic production and exports.

The focus must be put on diversifying the economy and enhancing the productive capacity of domestic suppliers.

Many are seeking to shield themselves from Russia s capricious embargos for example, by seeking alternative energy supplies.

Procurement opportunities for vendors from developing countries and countries with economies in transition

Airbus and Boeing do not supply seats but offer a catalogue of suppliers for airlines to choose from.

So here are some examples these are some natural shells.

Each has its cluster of component suppliers and professional service providers, with an infrastructure of transportation lines, communications networks, and research laboratories to support them.

In Morocco, for instance, investment from the Arab oil countries has already significantly reduced Europe s importance.

At the end of expected accomplishment (f), add and improvement in efforts to diversify United Nations suppliers .

There are several reasons.

Its strength resides in its people, its culture, and the goodwill it has built up among its customers and suppliers.

In the absence of solutions that alleviate growing pressure on supplies, hunger and malnutrition will increase.

Both lessons about the slowness and painfulness of bank reconstruction, and about dependence on a large external provider of capital are unpalatable.

Within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages.

In fact, there is more than one.

Several outcomes are possible.

So here's some examples.

You get something a little bit more complicated.

A few TEDsters here.

Several factors are at work.

Here are some reactions

Here are a few photos of the event

Several days pass.

Give me a few.

Several years went by.

A number of passengers were injured.

A number of people were drowned.

Please take some.

Some civilians were killed.

Tom is a bit conceited.

You are a bit fat.

There are a few problems.

I'm kind of disappointed.

I'm kind of scared.

That's kind of gross.

Here are some idioms.