Sentence examples for Corn dealer from inspiring English sources

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For example, the corn dealer may suffer severe financial hardship if he is accused of starving the poor.

It is not acceptable to express the same view to an angry mob, ready to explode, that has gathered outside the house of the corn dealer.

The difference between the two is that the latter is an expression "such as to constitute…a positive instigation to some mischievous act," (1978, 53), namely, to place the rights, and possibly the life, of the corn dealer in danger.

One would have to show that such speech violated rights, directly and in the first instance.(I am interested here in hate speech that does not advocate physical violence against a group or individual. If it does, it would, like the corn dealer example, be captured by Mill's harm principle as speech that can be prohibited).

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The example Mill uses is in reference to corn dealers: he suggests that it is acceptable to claim that corn dealers starve the poor if such a view is expressed through the medium of the printed page.

The fact that Mill does not count accusations of starving the poor as causing illegitimate harm to the rights of corn dealers suggests he wished to apply the harm principle sparingly.

It is translated as: "A meritorious gift of a seven-celled cave and cistern by a guild of corn-dealers".

In 388-386 B.C., a group of Athenian grain dealers formed a corn monopoly and manipulated prices, according to research by Spencer Weber Waller, a professor at the Brooklyn Law School.

The dealer taking on the risk of corn price fluctuation (i.e., going short) then has to find one or more counterparties to enter into an offsetting trade with (i.e., enter into a long position).

The farmer would enter into the inverse of the trade by the soft drink producer, asking a dealer to make payments for a quantity of corn at a fixed price in return for the farmer paying the dealer the market price of the corn periodically over the term of the swap.

The producer may want to reduce the risk that corn prices fluctuate and enters into a swap with a dealer pursuant to which the producer periodically receives the floating price of a quantity of corn (called the notional) while paying a fixed price for that quantity.

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