Sentence examples for brisk commerce from inspiring English sources

In place of the parks -- on what has come to be a valuable highway site in one of the wealthiest counties in the state -- borough officials envision brisk commerce.

At first, large stacks of some 8,000 shipping containers on the docks seem to indicate that a brisk commerce is taking place at the north port.

His letters speak particularly of a trade in slaves, especially of young girls for prostitution, in whom there appears to have been a brisk commerce, with export to Egypt.

During the Middle Ages, when the prevalence of malaria and of tomb robbers there was a brisk commerce in religious relics made ventures beyond the walls risky, some of the oratories and basilicas fell almost to ruin, and the location of some catacombs was forgotten.

During the night, stopped in a dimly lit station serenaded by the eager cries of villagers, I would wake to the sight of Godfrey engaged in some brisk commerce, passing out a few rumpled bills and lifting some heavy plastic bags inside.

Gun sales are unusually brisk: FBI background checks in the three months from November 2008 were up by 31% on the previous year.

Driven by his desire to keep the characters alive and brisk DVD sales of the original series–Whedon wrote and directed Serenity for Universal Studios, a feature film based on Firefly's characters and storyline.

In melanoma patients it was found that brisk TIL infiltration in tumor predicts sentinel lymph node metastasis [ 18] and in early-stage cervical cancer it was demonstrated that a high number of intraepithelial CD8+ lymphocytes is associated with the absence of lymph node metastasis [ 13].

BT = Brisk-transient, BS = Brisk Sustained, OS = Orientation-selective, see 'Materials and methods' for cell classification.

and its duration, we defined the intensity of the activity according to the globally used compendium of PAs by Ainsworth et al. (17): gardening, 5.5 METs; cycling, 7.5 METs; lifting, 6 METs; swimming, 6 METs; aerobics, 5.5 METs; jogging, 7.3 METs; golf, 4.8 METs; basketball, 6.5 METs; tennis, 5.5 METs; and brisk walking, 4.3 METs.

LAS VEGAS — Business was brisk at Eastman Kodak's expansive booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, even as the company was reportedly weighing a bankruptcy filing.