Sentence examples for a mercantile from inspiring English sources

The emergence of a mercantile middle class had a number of important consequences.

This is much more of a mercantile war than a real safety or environmental war.

All life in a mercantile society, one sometimes feels, is dedicated to the disguises of wanting.

From a mercantile point of view, that exchange was dead time.

The British South Africa Company, a mercantile company based in London, established itself in the region in 1890.

Robert had arrived in Brazoria from Kentucky in 1833, first joining another brother, Andrew, in a mercantile business.

Morris left England to join his father in Maryland in 1747 and then entered a mercantile house in Philadelphia.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who can always be counted on for a mercantile perspective, does an about-face.

The city in the mid-eighteen-hundreds was as much a religious crossroads as a mercantile one.

Mr. Foy was informed that the gallery needed a mercantile license, a formality that usually takes 15 minutes.

A mercantile church and a missionary church move in the same holy direction, and the vector that points both forward is the energy of enterprise.