Sentence examples for mercantile groups from inspiring English sources

These assemblies, dominated by mercantile groups that lent to governments, were in turn more likely to preserve access to credit.

These flourishing institutions of commerce testify to the ancient lineages of money, profit-mindedness, and mercantile groups, but they do not testify to the presence of a market system.

Influential commercial groups, drawn mainly from south Indian mercantile groups as well as other, resided in the royal capital, port, and market centers.

Their preeminence in the mid-eighteenth century over other local merchant groups indeed symbolized the ascendancy of Brahmin and Velalla power over traditional mercantile groups.

While some Jain laymen and monks served Muslim rulers as political advisers or teachers including Hiravijaya, who taught the Moghul emperor Akbar the Shvetambara community was gradually compelled to redefine itself and today thrives as a mercantile group.

Jason Conibear is trading director at the foreign exchange specialists Cambridge Mercantile, an international payments group helping thousands of British businesses transfer money and trade overseas.

Urgent negotiations over the fate of Ms. Kochneva, 40, come at a dangerous point in the Syrian conflict, as armed groups with political and mercantile interests turn their attention to civilians.

She sings in English, but otherwise this group is not very mercantile.

In "A Legacy," through the weaving together of the lives of several families, her father's people and the clans they married into, Bedford traces the sources of this development, in tensions among the old Catholic nobility, the newly rich Jewish mercantile class, the nationalistic Prussians, and other groups.

In 1845 a group of abolitionist businessmen opened a wholesale mercantile business in Cincinnati.

A group of investors applied to Long Beach for a mercantile license to pick up 100 passengers for a 250-passenger boat at an existing marina.