Sentence examples for lay trade from inspiring English sources

After leaving school, Wilson worked as a shop assistant then as a clerical worker in the civil service where he was a lay trade union official.

The harshness of New England's climate and topography meant that for most of its people the road to economic independence lay in trade, seafaring, fishing, or craftsmanship.

Another job in women's-wear convinced him that the real problem and hence opportunity in the rag trade lay with Canada's trade unions, whose demands hurt profits.

Therein lies the trade secret, Lieutenant Hernandez said: finding a vulnerable person with a good-size wallet.

Whoever has convinced farmers that their salvation lies in trade with Cuba has sold them a bill of goods.

"I'm not going to lie; the trade deadline is circled on our calendar like Easter or Christmas," said Karla Sillinger, who met her husband while they were growing up in Regina, Saskatchewan.

In sum, it appears that the 2008-09 recession was too short for the United States and Asian countries to have learned the necessary lessons: The root of global instability still lies in trade imbalances and currency values, and the need for adjustments in both Asia and the United States.

On the outskirts of Skid Row, one of the densest concentrations of homelessness in the United States, lies Los Angeles Trade Technical College (LATT).

Because it lay on the trade route between Kraków and Gdańsk (Danzig), it prospered.

Desperate for respectability and for cash, they worked at whatever trade lay at hand: peddling scrap metal, furs, gloves.

On the eastern shore of the Black Sea, the region lay on a trade route that stretched to India.