Sentence examples for mercantile world from inspiring English sources

Critics complained that Barneys was now merely offering the traditional menu of the globalized mercantile world, with its buffet of high-margin shoes and bags.

(Coincidentally or not, this is the second Middleton play I've seen in six months, following a lavish revival of "The Revenger's Tragedy" at the National Theater in London.) No one gets something for nothing, and very few end up with anything at all, in this cutthroat, mercantile world.

The Irish Mercantile Marine during World War II continued essential overseas trade in the conflict, a period referred to as The Long Watch by Irish mariners.

Alexander Hamilton pushed for a pro-English version of neutrality chiefly commercial ties with the most potent mercantile power in the world.

The Rockefellers, in turn, kept the idea of a New York-based global mercantile agency alive after World War II and ultimately helped make it a reality, although the project metamorphosed into a giant real estate speculation with little direct bearing on international commerce.

From the 1890s onwards, Muller had published with great regularity about the importance of a proper Dutch consular service to promote the Dutch mercantile interests around the world.

In peace, they have tailored their ambitions to their more modest weight in the world, combining their mercantile tradition and the asset of their geographical position to become the middlemen for a continent.

That one of world history's greatest mercantile nations should choose to celebrate its monarch's birthday by staging a kind of national car boot sale is, somehow, pleasing.

It was held together not by the church or the nobility but by a mercantile class that saw a parallel world in this coastal region on a new continent.

There were located the public offices, mercantile houses, and a limited range of manufactures.

She says that, given the direction colleges and universities are going in, faculty members have little claim to the protection of doctrines that were fashioned for an academy that holds itself aloof from real world issues, either political or mercantile.