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Example sentences for "commerce"

Lexicographically close words:
commentators; commented; commenting; comments; commer; commercia; commercial; commerciale; commercialism; commercialization
  1. After the law was passed by the Assembly, the author of the law, Le Chapelier, added: I have heard some say that it would be necessary to make an exception in favor of the Chambers of Commerce in cities.

  2. In 1849 the Chamber of Commerce of Lyons sent a delegation of workingmen to the National Exhibition in Paris.

  3. The war fed their commerce, and commerce fed their war.

  4. Certainly all visions of a circumpolar sea blessed with a gentle atmosphere and eternal tranquillity, and offering a smooth and easy passage for the world's commerce between Europe and Asia, had been for ever dispelled.

  5. This play was acted first in the year 1711, with every advantage a play could have.

  6. All the trade with Darfur passes through the town, the chief commerce being in cattle, feathers, ivory and cotton goods.

  7. Korea nearly in half, reaching the sea on the west coast near Chemulpo; and, in spite of many serious rapids, is a valuable highway for commerce for over 150 miles.

  8. The industrial establishments comprise white lead factories, machine and iron foundries, and commerce is active, especially in the mineral products of the region.

  9. British commerce was protected by occasional expeditions from Bombay; but the piratical system was not finally extinguished until 1812.

  10. It affords me no satisfaction to commerce to spring an arch before I have got a solid foundation.

  11. What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery.

  12. They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of taxation and finance, commerce and manufacturers and agriculture.

  13. Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied.

  14. Audiganne, chef de bureau at the department of commerce and agriculture, has published a curious work on the industrial crisis brought on by the revolution of February.

  15. The question is, if the amiable perspective of Paris in a state of siege every eight or ten months will restore to commerce its elastic movements, to the industrious their markets, and to the middle classes their repose.

  16. They had prepared to resist his passage into Britain, being possessed of the commerce [of that island] themselves.

  17. Interest will always lead us to where the relations of commerce and society are most easily established, and these are advantages to be found where government is administered, or rather where it is well administered.

  18. As to the commerce between relations, Strabo in his 16th Book, speaks of it as being usual amongst the Arabs.

  19. And what commerce could he have carried on with the Ethiopians who dwelt by the shores of the exterior sea and the ocean?

  20. The spread of the alarm was increased by a report that the Chamber of Commerce had once again issued a warning to the Government that the harbor defences of New York city were not strong enough, and had asked that they be strengthened.

  21. As the members of the Chamber of Commerce had been right on both of the previous occasions, the people looked on them as prophets, and a war scare spread over the country, which caused the greatest uneasiness.

  22. In the announcement it was added that the warning from the Chamber of Commerce would be taken into consideration, but that there was in it nothing to throw the country into a panic.

  23. Such is their wish, such their view, totally unallied with commerce or politics, hope of gain and lust of power.

  24. The whole commerce of the East, indeed, originally passed through Arabia Petraea to Phoenicia, Tyre, and Egypt.

  25. The Edomites had command of ports on the Red Sea, which put the commerce of India and Ethiopia into their hands, and was the source, both at an early period of their history and in the time of the Roman empire, of all their greatness.

  26. Saguntum, according to Livy, acquired immense riches, partly from its commerce both by land and sea, and partly from its just laws and excellent police.

  27. The choice of this spot by Solomon, we may naturally consider founded on a policy of enriching himself by drawing the commerce of India through his dominions, from which commerce, probably, he derived the wealth for which he is so celebrated.

  28. At that period Tyre had again become an exceedingly large city; and because of the vast commerce she carried on with all nations, she was called "Queen of the Sea.

  29. Every article of commerce was brought to its markets.

  30. The gentry had also profited by commerce and possessions in the colonies.

  31. This was to increase the number of able and experience mariners and seamen for the navy and for the trade and commerce of the nation.

  32. The king was authorized to prohibit commerce for one year with any country infected by the plague and to forbid any persons of the realm from going to an infected place.

  33. Carolina, named for Charles II, was colonized for commerce in 1663.

  34. The rules with respect to the latter are governed by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1910, state messages are governed by the laws of their respective states.

  35. The Cross was, accordingly, the centre of the commerce and of the municipal authority of Old Glasgow.

  36. No article of commerce is so liable to waste and leakage as turpentine.

  37. They also increased the commerce and manufactures and agriculture of the Netherlands, and rendered Amsterdam one of the most famous cities of the world.

  38. Each village or township occupying its plain with the inclosing mountains, supplied its own main wants, whilst the transport of commodities by land was sufficiently difficult to discourage greatly any regular commerce with neighbors.

  39. The Growth of English Industry and Commerce in Modern Times.

  40. It was the only medium of commerce and trade with the Romans, of literature and art, of the theater and of social relations.

  41. It is also of interest to commerce that fashions should change and this also is largely, but not wholly, a matter of advertising.

  42. It was in the eighteenth century and in England that we first find any general recognition of the new rĂ´le that commerce and the middleman were to play in the modern world.

  43. Into this frame were fitted many native words which had already become the property of trade and commerce and the other activities of life in the city, town, and country.

  44. The apology for freedom of commerce will always present, from one point of view, an air of paradox.

  45. Freedom of commerce is, however, limited on the one hand by the mores and on the other by formal law, so that the economic process takes place ordinarily within limitations that are defined by the cultural and the political processes.

  46. The modern city, on the contrary, is primarily a convenience of commerce and owes its existence to the market place around which it sprang up.

  47. Commerce presupposes the freedom of the individual to pursue his own profit, and commerce can take place only to the extent and degree that this freedom is permitted.

  48. Otherwise it is not commerce at all, but something predacious outside the law.

  49. At the commerce table the King sat by him, and was full of jokes; called him continually 'Lord Howe,' to the great amusement of the bystanders and of Lord Grey himself.

  50. In this club there were some obscure but very able men, and by them he got crammed with the principles of commerce and political economy, and from his mercantile connections he got facts.

  51. This was in 1821, and after five years' busy writing Galt went to Canada in charge of a great scheme of colonisation and commerce called the Canada Company.

  52. It has become an established opinion, that commerce can never flourish but in a free government; and this opinion seems to be founded on a longer and larger experience than the foregoing, with regard to the arts and sciences.

  53. His admiration of active commerce and variety of pursuits.

  54. His admiration of active commerce and variety of pursuits ib.

  55. The theatre, when it is under any other direction, is peopled by such characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arise in the commerce of mankind.

  56. This is always the fault of a little mind, made artful by long commerce with the world.

  57. The agricultural productions of the South are the basis of the foreign commerce of the United States; yet Southern cities do not carry it on.

  58. He also made a close alliance with Tyre, the great centre of commerce in that age, and one of the wealthiest cities of antiquity.

  59. The nation was also enriched by commerce as well as by agriculture.


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