Wholesale merchants, holding their heads visibly higher than retail merchants, alight from cabs and clear a path with a sweep of their walking sticks.
Big-Name Merchant Hold-Outs.
The transactions, officials said, were processed through merchant accounts held by escort services or limousine companies, and in one instance a company that hired musical bands for weddings.
Nor do the torture and increasingly cruel treatment of merchant seamen held hostage by pirates (some are hung overboard; many are kept in stress positions; all are scared and underfed).
Further disagreements with the Merchant Adventurers held up the departure in Southampton.
A number of wealthy cocaine merchants are held at La Picota.
On Senbayashi, an Osaka shopping street, merchants recently held a 100-yen day, offering much of their merchandise for that price.
In 1818 the Russian government took control of the RAC from the merchants who held the charter.
Despite the challenges posed by rival Italian merchants, they held their own throughout the latter half of the Byzantine Empire's existence.
South Korean companies, led by Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's biggest builder of merchant vessels, hold a global market share of 36percentt, while European shipbuilders account for only 8percentt of sales worldwide.
More influential now are some of Dubai's most circumspect business families, including Ahmed Humaid al-Tayer, whose retail empire has brought Bloomingdale's and other big American brands to Dubai, and Ali Rashid Ahmed Lootah, whose entrenched merchant family holds a number of key government positions.
