Sentences with phrase «of lumber as»

Earlier this year Quebec introduced a wood charter, which doesn't force but strongly encourages the use of lumber as the chief material in provincial projects.

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Jersey Standard photographers cover certain routine assignments such as official dinners and tanker launchings, but for the most part they work on «picture essays» — a detailed coverage of the Gloucester fishing fleet, for example, or lumbering in the Northwest, or river transportation.

West Fraser, a supplier of lumber to Home Depot, said it was ensuring deliveries to its customers were as regular as possible.

The move came as a result of the collapse of America's housing market, which evaporated demand for B.C. lumber.

Trump would also instruct the US trade representative to notify Mexico and Canada of the administration's intention to propose amendments to the deal, which, as CNN reported, «could include measures on currency manipulation, lumber, country - of - origin labeling and environmental and safety standards.»

When Atlantic Canada's biggest lumber company, J.D. Irving Ltd., was assessed a duty of only 3 per cent, the Chronicle Herald described the sanction as an «opportunity» for the company to gain market share at the expense of its more heavily taxed Canadian rivals.

Santelli began his career in 1979 as a trader and order - filler at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in a variety of markets, including gold, lumber, CDs, T - bills, foreign currencies and livestock.

It did a bustling business as a supplier of lumber and other building materials to contractors for new construction and remodeling jobs.

Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

Instead of being reduced to such desperate measures as almost - hopeless appeals of its failed «extraordinary challenges» of past NAFTA panel rulings, the US and its lumber coalition are back in the driver's seat.

Mr. Pinette's work in the Canadian forest industry began 40 years ago as an owner and President of a family lumber business, Pinette & Therrien Mills Ltd..

The third most populous city in the state is located near the University of Maine and also prospered as a lumber producer.

In the wake of the U.S. Department of Commerce's announcement of the countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber Tuesday, the Canadian dollar fell due to expectations of large job losses that could begin to take hold as early as this fall.

A key element in this shift is China; the value of Chinese exports to Canada tripled over this period and Canadian exports to China, while still small relative to exports to the US, have grown steadily in value driven by commodity exports which have been buoyed by high prices and huge demand in China for key Canadian exports such as minerals (nickel, coking coal, potash, copper and iron ore), pulp and lumber.

By the 1920's, there was a roaring trade across the Pacific in grains, lumber, metals and other staples of Canada's growing resource economy, as well as in manufactured goods.

However, as illustrated by the US's imposition of 20 % countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber in April 2017, along with the recent Boeing / Bombardier dispute, Canada is unlikely to escape the «America First» trade policy unscathed.

Shares of Canfor Corporation and Western Forest Products, Canada's number two and number five lumber producers by annual output, have had a good three months, advancing 25.5 percent and 16.8 percent respectively as of April 12.

A memo, obtained recently by CNN, says Mr. Trump intends to propose changes to the treaty on issues such as currency manipulation, lumber, country - of - origin labelling for meat as well as environmental and safety standards.

In their May 2015 paper entitled «Lumber: Worth Its Weight in Gold: Offense and Defense in Active Portfolio Management», Charles Bilello and Michael Gayed examine the recent relative performance of lumber (a proxy for economic activity via construction) and gold (a safe haven) as an indicator of future stock market and bond market performance.

It's too early to tell exactly how much of an impact hurricanes Harvey and Irma will have on the prices for lumber and other building materials, especially as other factors such as wildfires and duties are still uncertain.

As an example, between the second quarter of 2010 and the third quarter of 2011, copper piping rose almost 27 percent, steel rebar increased almost 16 percent and lumber increased nearly 12 percent (4Q2011 RCT Product Bulletin).

His attempt to imagine in fiction «The Last Days of Mohammed Atta» is almost as flat and lumbering as John Updike's Terrorist.

And she navigates the multilayered policy discussion of «the underclass» as adroitly as she guides her lumbering Ford past the sootstained, monotonous yellow buildings.

The church can solve this problem by a «render unto Caesar» approach by relinquishing the legal role that the state has lumbered it with, and gets back to the basics of celebrating who God puts together — which, as stated in the previous verse, was between a man and woman instinct-wise.

Let it collapse, this lumber room, get rid of it, shut all these shops and booths... And let us again serve God in simplicity, instead of treating him as a fool in magnificent buildings.

But right now, all the materials are all just lying around as piles of lumber and boxes of nails.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

Those of you who work over at the lumber mill, imagine you get a speck of sawdust in your eye, as has probably happened to you several times, and as you hold your eye, and squint, and try to get the speck out, a coworker comes over and says, «Here, let me help you get that out.»

Unlike many accounts of Billy Graham's life and ministry, Grant Wacker's America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation does not construct a heroic fable, nor does he deconstruct the evangelist as a lumbering proselytizer.

And then add as well the question of whether this strategy for expansion will end up making the whole system into a lumbering bureaucratic giant that stifles innovations, and etc..

One couple told of standing together high on a hill in November listening in silence to the far - away honking of wild geese as they made a jagged V lumbering across the sky.

He may, in practice, treat it as a piece of lumber, but he regards it in theory as a piece of necessary lumber, however useless and inconvenient.

For example, although most of the products that all the Divisions work with on a daily basis are fresh and processed fruits and vegetables, the Promotion and Economics Division oversees research and promotion programs for honey, peanuts, paper and paper packaging, softwood lumber, popcorn, and Christmas trees, along with traditional fruits and vegetables such as mangoes and potatoes.

Fridge lumbered more or less into America's consciousness as a 360 - pound All - America nosetackle at Clemson and a 330 - pound first - round draft choice, presumably as a defensive lineman, of the Chicago Bears last spring.

Part of what Magoon calls «our own little air force,» the rebuilt prop plane can lumber along as slowly as 90 mph and remain airborne for up to 22 hours without refueling.

Trouble is Theo has been found out as being lazy unmotivated and basically Cr @p and as such noone would pay what we would seek for him so we are lumbered Sanogoals Ought to be got shot of too as he ai nt never going to cut it up front

This is the man who saved Sunderland, who pushed a limited Bolton side into Europe, who got the best out of the brilliant Jay - Jay Okocha as well as the lumbering Younes Kaboul.

As he lumbers along, one can see that he doesn't have the classic configuration of the soccer player — all lungs and legs — but is built more like a tight end — wide shoulders with a bullish hunch and a narrow waist.

Eight minutes later it was 3 - 0 as Mane sped away from a lumbering Sevilla backline and his initial effort was only parried by Rico into the path of the grateful Firmino to slot into an empty net.

I don't know how or why I eventually stopped blaming myself (counselling helped a little)-- maybe it was just time that helped lesson the image of my little baby as the doctors attempted to insert the lumber puncture.

I know the thought of having to make new friends as an adult, especially when you're feeling lumbering and cranky and stinky, is painful.

The Upper West Regional Coordinating Council is picking the well - being of the environment over business interests, as it has refused to allow a lumbering firm with a legal permit, to cut rosewood in its domain.

People usually think of them as massive, lumbering hulks of plant - eating muscle.

While the idea of dinosaurs as lumbering lizards persisted, research didn't come to a standstill.

It's as though the brain is allowed to have its genius moment before our lumbering, bureaucratic idea of thinking puts on a tie and gets in the way.

The genet might be using this rhino as a movable hunting blind, waiting for mice or insects to run out of the way of the big lumbering beast and then pouncing on them from above.

Protecting ramón trees from being harvested for lumber is a prime effect of giving value to the seeds as an important food source.

Taking the most rudimentary tenets of eating and flipping them over like organic flapjacks, Dr. Catherine Shanahan, of Bedford, illustrates the correlations between «eating mindfully» and establishing an uncomplicated diet — especially as we lumber through the dog days of summer.

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We all know how geared the media is towards teeny tiny models, and so I grew up feeling lumbering, fat, and as if I'd failed in that one aspect of my life — even though at my largest, I was only ever a size 14.