Sentence examples for merchant as from inspiring English sources

A merchant as well as a statesman, he obtained important commercial privileges from the Byzantine emperors Leo V the Armenian and Michael II.

(The company sees its legal opposition to the merchant as strictly a trademark issue, which has nothing to do with the merchant's being from Hollister).

"We", it almost goes without saying, are Gervais and his regular writing partner, Stephen Merchant, and it's striking that he wrote Derek without Merchant, as well as directing and starring in it.

How're we were going to do this?' " said Mr. Martin, who portrays the businessman Antonio's sidekick Gratiano in "Merchant" as well as Polixenes, the king of Bohemia, in "The Winter's Tale".

He said customers can directly load up the wallet from their bank account or a credit card and start buying, with the funds being transferred to the merchant as soon as the transaction is completed (eventually he hopes to allow customers to top up their accounts via cash, with collection agents coming to your doorstep).

The Indian team was weakened by withdrawals of their first-choice captain Vijay Merchant, as well as Rusi Modi and Mushtaq Ali.

The pressure on sales affected smaller merchants as well.

In 1857, in response to the first global crash, the Bank lent directly to merchants, as well as to banks.

The island was used as a stopover port and fishing ground by Japanese merchants as early as the early 17th century.

They proclaim themselves to be "omnichannel" merchants, as adept as Amazon online but with the added excitement and convenience that comes with physical shops.

They arrived in 278 B.C., 20,000 of them, including provisioners and merchants as well as their families, in a caravan of 2,000 baggage wagons.