Sentence examples for entrepot from inspiring English sources

Okinawans mastered the oceans and developed a far-flung, monsoon-borne entrepot trade not just with near-neighbours Japan, Korea anear-neighbours Japanh Indonesia, Malacca (the crossroads of South-East Asian trade), and even Siam (modern-day Thailand).

Immaculate himself, in designer glasses and pure white perahan tunban topped with a perfectly matching brown wool jacket and scarf, the mayor wanted nothing less for the town he adored.But this was Kandahar City, a sprawling desert entrepot of 800,000 people in the middle of a war, in southern Afghanistan.

They found their best chance for survival was in being close to an urban entrepot".

It has deftly exploited those advantages that made it a successful entrepot as early the 14th century: a fine natural harbour and strategic position on the Malacca Strait, through which an estimated 40% or world maritime trade now passes.

The authors argue that instead of tackling the problem in overcrowded asylum centres in Europe, efforts to deal with it must also focus here.Agadez, a smuggling entrepot in northern Niger, is a good example.

Panama, which has embarked on a $5.25 billion scheme to expand its canal, has a chance of becoming a Singapore-style entrepot for Latin America.Rules and regulations are often an even bigger brake on productivity.

But they also contributed to the entrepreneurial zest and trading connections that helped to create the wealth and vitality of imperial entrepots such as Rangoon and Singapore.

This reflects scarce land, which boosts property values, and their role as entrepots for shiftier neighbours.

As Chinese-built infrastructure snakes through Central Asia, the Gulf entrepots like Dubai can serve increasingly as conduits for Central Asian produce, textiles and other goods to Europe and America.

But as one of the main entrepots on the east-west heroin trading route from Kandahar into Iran, it sure is on somebody else's main effort.

Now he seems to concede that global financial entrepots should only be domiciled in countries with global reserve currencies, and thus a large pool of direct or indirect fiscal capacity.