Sentence examples for leading merchant from inspiring English sources

Just ask Stephen S. Roach, Morgan Stanley's chief economist and currently Wall Street's leading merchant of doom.

With a balance between its leading merchant families, Florence was now ruled by its guilds, divided into seven major guilds and a number of minor ones.

His father, Nicolaus, was a well-to-do merchant, and his mother, Barbara Watzenrode, also came from a leading merchant family.

Baltimore and Philadelphia were possible alternatives before Davies was persuaded to consider Glasgow, whose status as a leading merchant city was reflected in its Victorian architecture.

In 1808 Charles had joined the shipping firm of Archibald Gracie, a leading merchant who was a close associate of his father and Alexander Hamilton.

It was reported this week that Paul Miller, the former Tottenham defender, has been recruited by a leading merchant bank to head a division that will help professional footballers organise their bloated incomes.

Parākramabāhu designed a government of 12 provincial governors, princes, army generals, and leading merchants.

As the turquoise boat made its way up the Patuca, Hilda received a phone call from its owner, one of the leading merchants in Ahuas.

Among the other gentlemen present were Alderman Brooks, Mr. R.R. Moore, the Rev. J.W. Massie, the Rev. Franklin Howorth, and many of the leading merchants and manufacturers of Bury.

Out on the high road he pointed out landmarks and distinguished manses, the establishments of leading merchants and men of account.

Of the leading merchants, St Gobain could be the only possible counter-bidder and is unlikely in our view to get involved in a bidding war.