Sentence examples for commercial men from inspiring English sources

A growing class of professional and commercial men demanded more freedom.

An important new class in society was composed of the commercial men and miners from Bergslagen, who were interested in the unimpeded export of Sweden's iron and copper.

Yet another round of one-day matches – of 20- or 40-over duration – may suit the commercial men and the TV companies, but very often they have barely any cricketing significance.

The court instructed the jury that if the four articles in question, according to the understanding of commercial men, dealers in and importers of them, would, when imported, 'be included in the class of articles known as 'aniline dyes,' by whatever name they had come to be known,' they were subject to duty as aniline dyes, and the defendant was entitled to a verdict.

In the commercial-success stakes, nearly-men TFC will always be.

"I was a commercial man," he said.

Greg Dyke is a very hard- nosed commercial man.

Yann Martel, whose "Life of Pi" proved one of the most commercial Man Booker winners ever, may make the longlist, but he won't get any further.

In Smith's system, commercial man might not be docile, exactly, but he could be governed, and, just as important, he could learn to tolerate his neighbor's religion in order to do business with him.

In 1917, Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in literature warned about the "commercial man".

He reiterated his financial proposals, but was overlooked for the finance and trade committee, having been described by Alfred Deakin as "a mere commercial man".