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Many of them were eventually absorbed by the companies which had been their principal suppliers.

The Soviet Union is the principal supplier to all three countries.

The main one is that savings institutions are a principal supplier of construction loans.

"And Japan is the principal supplier of that capital.

His supporters said that was exactly what this country, which has become the principal supplier of oil to the United States in recent years, requires.

Intimate Brands owns its principal supplier, which helps moves this process along nicely.

These rules stipulated that negotiations on trade matters could only be initiated by principal suppliers.

And, for at least a decade, West German companies have been the principal suppliers of secret atom bomb programs around the world.

The principal suppliers of shelled peanut imports are Argentina and Canada.

"Iran, one of the principal suppliers of the arms, is an international menace, sponsoring terrorism around the world," he said.

The Manila lab remained a principal supplier for the Asian hospices.

Madagascar is among the world's principal suppliers of vanilla, cloves and ylang-ylang.

But in 1986 Dee Corporation, its principal supplier withdrew.

Today, moreover, Azerbaijan is the principal supplier of crude oil to the European Union.

"Pakistan was very aggressive in seeking out equipment, material, and technology for its nuclear weapons program, with China as its principal supplier," the report said.

Burr-Brown was one of the principal suppliers of precision analog and data acquisition products to the electronic industry.

In the 2000s, Khrunichev entered a vertical integration programme to bring its principal suppliers under a single management.

The Commission is attempting to negotiate with the principal suppliers about allocating tariff quotas on the basis of historical references.

The principal suppliers are plants in the United States, Europe, and South Africa.

When developing countries wanted better terms of access for their exports of manufactures, they found that the principal supplier was invariably an industrialised country.

The corner drugstore, a principal supplier of cigarettes to generations of Americans, has been supplanted in tobacco sales by the 24-hour convenience store.

Telecom is New Zealand's principal supplier of domestic and international communications services, including mobile and directory services.

Mr. Boucher said Nicaragua was "the principal supplier" of arms to the Salvadoran rebels.

After the onset of the US military cutoff, Israel became Argentina's principal supplier of weapons.

Cygne Designs Inc., its principal supplier, which depends greatly on the store's business, has been hurt by the decrease in orders.