Sentence examples for increased mercantile from inspiring English sources
The market rights conferred on Bremen in 965 brought increased mercantile activity, and the young city soon became one of the commanding religious and economic centres of northern Germany, especially after entering the Hanseatic League in 1358.
These factors, along with increased European mercantile activity in the Italian cities, helped restore Egypt as a great international entrepôt.
In the decades since, the number of mercantile vessels sailing in the waters of the Mediterranean has increased dramatically in 2006, 13,000 merchant vessels made 252,000 calls at Mediterranean ports and an additional 10,000 vessels transited through the sea.
But as mercantile competition became stiffer, the rate of such taxation could not be safely increased, and the burden therefore fell increasingly on the consumer.
At the same time, the Italian domestic market also contracted, and increasing social and institutional constraints further limited productive and mercantile opportunities.
All over Europe secular art continued to increase in quantity and quality, and in the 15th century the mercantile classes of Italy and Flanders became important patrons, commissioning small portraits of themselves in oils as well as a growing range of luxury items such as jewellery, ivory caskets, cassone chests, and maiolica pottery.
He joined Mercantile as chief executive in March 1989 and led the corporation to record earnings, with profits increasing from $500,000 in 1989 to more than $500 million in 1998.
In this era there was an increasing number of lay encyclopaedists e.g., Latini, Bandini, de la Torre and the subject coverage changed to give more space and importance to the practical matters that interested the rising mercantile class.
Melet Mercantile head scarves.
