Sentence examples for groups of merchants from inspiring English sources

These separate voyages, financed by groups of merchants within the company, were replaced in 1612 by terminable joint stocks, which covered operations over a term of years.

The court said that both groups should not have been represented by the same lawyers, who stood to earn more than a half-billion dollars in fees, because the two groups of merchants' interests conflicted with one another.

From the early 16th to the early 19th century, some groups of merchants, traders, church members, insurers, and others employed private individuals to protect their property and their persons.

He and Carl Goldberg, the authority's commissioner and chairman of its redevelopment selection committee, said that one thing became clear in talks with advisory groups of merchants, elected officials and residents of the towns surrounding the Meadowlands: they did not want an automobile racing oval in their midst.

This attitude has been taken to morbid extremes in recent years, most notably in the late 1990s with the hiring of mercenary 'death squads' by groups of merchants wishing to cleanse their street of threatening gangs of youths that might dissuade consumers.

Over the last five years, Amazon has lowered hurdles for independent vendors to sell on its site and recruited new groups of merchants as it has expanded into other countries and product categories — automotive parts in 2006 and office supplies this year, for example.

The convoy system remedied this by having groups of merchant ships sail within a protective ring of destroyers and other naval escorts.

Caravan, a group of merchants, pilgrims, or travelers journeying together, usually for mutual protection in deserts or other hostile regions.

The museum was established by an elite group of merchants and sea captains in one of the busiest ports on the East Coast.

By the time Columbus returned in triumph in 1493, Vespucci was intimately connected with the group of merchants that supplied the explorer's subsequent, far less successful voyages.

Noting that the street is home to a diverse group of merchants, Ms. Gerend added, "You can eat anything from cow foot soup to great burritos there".