For example, a new directive requires non household customers to be able to choose their electricity supplier by July 2004 and their gas supplier by July 2007.

China is also Burma s largest military supplier.

Its largest supplier is its stable neighbor, Canada.

Belluno also became a supplier of iron and copper.

The world has changed its supplier of global public goods in the past.

Moreover, Germany has been among Israel s most reliable allies, exemplified by its role as a major arms supplier.

But the directive ignores household customers, who in 2001 were able to choose their electricity supplier in only five EU States and their gas supplier in only three.

Russia has been China s major supplier of weapons since the late 1990 s.

In 1998, Centrica s supplier monopoly for gas came to an end.

You had a monopoly supplier. On the left, you have Rupert Murdoch, or the BBC.

In the last three years, the US has surpassed Russia as India s largest arms supplier.

In the process, he damaged Russia s reputation as a reliable supplier of natural gas.

Like China, India views Central Asia as an important future energy supplier.

Central myths about Putin the healer of the nation and the supplier of giveaway budgets are collapsing.

Aguas de Portugal, which is partially owned by Energias de Portugal (the country's energy supplier, which was privatised in 2011), could generate the interest of Nestlé.

For the US, displacing Russia as India s leading arms supplier was a major diplomatic triumph, akin to Egypt s decision during the Cold War to shift its allegiance and its arms supplier from the Soviet Union to America.

To proceed otherwise would discount the most important question the reliability of Russia as an energy supplier.

Recent events have not enhanced the stature of the US as a supplier of high quality assets.

And, for better or for worse, it is a key supplier to certain countries.

Tensions in the Middle East, and growing rivalry between the US and Venezuela, will make Brazil an attractive supplier.

In the Caucasus, the Kremlin has prevented Iran from establishing infrastructure to compete as a supplier of gas to Europe.

Russia today has retained its strength only as a supplier of energy and other natural resources.

Russia s growing slice of the local arms market worries the US, the world s biggest weapons supplier and still Asia s greatest military power.

Both are surely aware that China s surging exports last year helped it surpass the US as Europe s largest foreign supplier.

With the US no longer viewed as a supplier of high quality financial assets, one would expect the dollar to have weakened.

As a bonus, the pipeline will also consolidate the Russian economy s status as an appendage of Germany s its supplier of natural resources.

While Mexico is America s second largest supplier of oil, this represents only 9 of its total exports.

It is used for medicinal and ritual purposes, and is also well known as a natural energy supplier.

The best one can expect is that India continues to act at the margin 160 for example, by reducing dependence on Iranian oil while increasing imports from Saudi Arabia, already its largest supplier of crude.

True, China cannot entirely overlook US pressure and the staunch opposition of its top oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, to Iran s nuclear program.

Last year, the value of drugs produced in Afghanistan the world s largest supplier of opiates is estimated to have reached up to 25 of GDP.

The democratic energy of Norway may constitute too distant a goal, but Russia s role as a predictable energy supplier requires ending the reign of corruption.

Russia quickly discovered that its threats against Ukraine were too costly to its reputation as a reliable supplier for Europe.

As long as Gazprom remains opaque, Europe cannot know whether its key supplier is spending enough to develop future reserves.

A German company which is a supplier to Temelín power plant tweeted out one of the photos that also shows some of their products

The supplier that won the contract, Gratex International, declared that no profit was being made from some items, so they decided to make it from others.

He has one supplier from Holland, says reporter, Lilah Raptopoulos, who met with the Vezyroglous, who is asking for cash because they don t trust the Greek banks.

Likewise, Russia s effort to expand its influence in the energy rich countries of Central Asia is aimed at consolidating Russia s stature as a major energy supplier.

True, China cannot entirely overlook US pressure and the staunch opposition of its top oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, to Iran s nuclear program. But, while China has supported the mandatory sanctions set by the United Nations Security Council, it has rejected the West s unilateral measures.

British Petroleum and American Electric Power, the largest electricity supplier in the United States, have helped the Chiquitanos buy up logging concessions, thereby doubling Noel Kempff to three million acres.

Other than oil, gas, and other commodities, China has rather limited interests in Russia. Russia has been China s major supplier of weapons since the late 1990 s.

The agency head made it clear that the US is still considering maintaining its leadership on the global energy market, now that it has become the largest supplier of oil and gas.

Their loans were designed to perpetuate Africa s role as a supplier of raw materials, while entangling the continent in an inextricable web of debts and dependency on the aid industry.

Nabucco would reach Europe via Turkey and would drastically reduce Caspian supplier countries dependence on Russia s pipelines, and the new southeastern EU members dependence on Russian gas supplies.

Russia has an important place in Chinese geopolitical calculations, as a supplier of both modern weaponry and energy resources needed to continue its modernization.