Sentence examples for foreign merchant from inspiring English sources

The first full traverse of the route by foreign merchant ships occurred in 2009.

Trade was mainly carried on in the interests of a privileged foreign merchant class, not those of the community at large.

Even at his death, he owned an expensive seamless robe, and his body was smuggled away by one of his richer followers, a foreign merchant, to be given a "decent" burial.

While the principle of freedom of the seas normally forbids visit and search of foreign merchant vessels on the high seas in time of peace, the practice has occasionally been extended to "pacific blockades" instituted as measures of reprisal, usually by a large state against a small one.

504, 67 L.Ed. 894 (1923), holding that our prohibition laws applied to foreign merchant vessels as well as domestic within the territorial waters of the United States, and that therefore the carrying of intoxicating liquors by foreign passenger ships violated those laws.

He was the first foreign merchant to export wool goods from Bradford.

Over the next 300 years China would become extremely isolated from foreign merchants; China prohibited foreigners or foreign trade and languages other than Chinese.

In 1310 Edward II's barons, jealous of the Italians' power, drew up ordinances forbidding the assignment of customs to foreigners and calling for the arrest of foreign merchants and seizure of their goods.

Dissertation: "Expulsions of Foreign Merchants & Moneylenders in Western Europe, 1200-1450". Website.

Facilities for domestic and foreign merchants were furnished.

Edward became a trader himself, transporting goods in his own ships and those of foreign merchants.