Sentence examples for after fur from inspiring English sources

How has the mining business changed since you first got into it?Mining is a very Canadian business, after fur trading, the second activity for which we were known.

Now Mr. Gaines is leading the most ambitious effort ever to document whether grizzlies still exist here — a century after fur trappers and ranchers killed them off by the hundreds — at a time when tension is high in the West over the fate of wild predators like gray wolves.

After the fur trade declined in the late 1840's, the parade of entrepreneurs began.

The reason they're after the fur industry is because it's low-lying fruit".

Daniel Boone killed him a b'ar, but he was after the fur.

That is what was really great, noticing after the fur had flown that I was completely intact.

Long after the fur trade had ended, technologies that improved water-based travel, such as dredging and canals, only enhanced Montreal's status as a transportation centre.

The government had named him area administrator for West Baffin Island and charged him with fostering the production of art to provide an income to the Inuit after their fur trade had declined.

For most of its history, Astoria — a former pelt trading post named after the fur baron John Jacob Astor — was a hub of the West Coast fishing industry and home to more than a dozen seafood canneries.

"We have had to go from shaking things up in a complacent society to toning things down," said Ingrid E. Newkirk, president of PETA, which has gone after the fur industry, drug makers and fast-food restaurants.

After the fur coat lands on her head, our heroine turns around and, seeing a man in a turban behind her, demands an explanation: "Say, what's the big idea?" Looking up from his book, he solemnly replies: "Kismet".