Sentence examples for class merchants from inspiring English sources

The event, scholars say, replays the history of Kuwaitis seen as part of the country's founding "settler" class, merchants or ship owners who lived and worked by the sea, controlling pearl-diving and other trades.

The takeaways here: you don't need middle class merchants if you have no middle class.

Agricultural revenues were highly skewed – the top two percent of the population received 50 percent of the income, while the middle class (merchants or middle landowning groups), which was 18 percent of the population, earned 25 percent of agricultural revenues.

In the late Middle Ages, the increasing wealth of middle class merchants and traders meant that commoners began emulating the aristocracy, and threatened to break down some of the symbolic barriers between the nobility and the lower classes.

I met a lot of "Body Catholics" in India: middle class merchants who would go on pilgrimage; untouchable healers; elderly who venerate the saints; adolescents who say the rosary; mystics and seers who commune with Mary or see Jesus in the consecrated Eucharistic host; people who go to mass daily, monthly, or just for Christmas and Easter.

Middle class, merchants and lesser nobles, would wear generally higher quality fabrics, with some forms of decoration, e.g. jewelry, fancy belts, and sundries.

My mother's father  was a successful middle class merchant — a butcher — who proudly worked six days a week in his butcher shop, retiring at age 84 when his right-hand man of 50 years decided to call it quits at age 78.

Inflation and the studied carelessness of the aristocracy had left many noble families impoverished, while middle-class merchants and financiers prospered.

This information was readily available to the general public, and coin collecting became a pursuit of middle-class merchants and members of the various professions who were growing in numbers as well as cultural sophistication.

The ensemble also includes a wooden house of a kulak, the name for rich Russian peasants who were savagely repressed during the Stalinist era, and, in a new addition, the town house of a kupets, the name for middle-class merchants also cut down by the Russian Revolution.

Once thought to be unperformable, "Die Soldaten" is radical not just for its gnarly 12-tone language and its story about the downfall of the winsome daughter of a middle-class merchant in Flanders at the hands of lecherous soldiers.