Sentence examples for merchant interests from inspiring English sources
Spanish and Portuguese monarchs included missionaries among the colonizers sent to the Americas, Africa, and Asia, and French merchant interests sponsored missionaries in areas that the French explored.
Belcher's merchant interests included the occasional trafficking in slaves.
He supplemented his legal work by acting as an agent for Boston-based merchant interests, including John Hancock, one of Boston's wealthiest men.
The war made Gerry sufficiently wealthy that when it ended he sold off his merchant interests, and began investing in land.
The matter was tabled until May 1801, when the cabinet voted to send a naval squadron to the area to defend the country's merchant interests.
The man-made factors included political rivalries between members of the German confederation, particularly between the Austrians and the Prussians, and socio-economic competition among the commercial and merchant interests and the old land-owning and aristocratic interests.
More devices with Apple Pay capabilities leads to greater retailer and merchant interest, which in turn prompts more consumer satisfaction (more places it works) and so on.
It's also interesting to hear this news now, when just yesterday, disruptive mobile payments company Square's COO Keith Rabois boldly declared NFC as having no value, citing lack of merchant interest in the technology.
But on Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit disagreed, saying that the decision focused only on the merchants' interests, "while discounting the interests of cardholders".
The court said that both groups should not have been represented by the same lawyers, who stood to earn more than a half-billion dollars in fees, because the two groups of merchants' interests conflicted with one another.
Roberto C. Milk, Novica's chief executive, said the company's effort was inspired by traditional merchants' interest in buying the Web site's goods wholesale, or working with its network of artisans to produce merchandise specially for their stores.
