Yet its merchant fleet ruled the seas.
For Web merchants, the rules regarding physical presence -- or nexus, in tax parlance -- can also be set in motion in states where the merchants operate Internet server computers, or even backup servers.
As typical members of the popolo grasso (rich merchants) that ruled Florence during the later European Middle Ages, they regularly served as priors and ambassadors of the commune.
Agrarian protests that emerged during the 1880s and '90s produced the People's (Populist) Party and what seemed at the time to be a chance to overthrow the state's planter-merchant-lawyer rule.
For a long time the city was a sovereign principality, founded by merchants and ruled in relative democracy, and the unification of Novgorod with Moscow in the 15th century was an essential step towards a unified Russia.
"The Medicis controlled everything," Tony Podesta said in an interview, referring to the merchant family that ruled Renaissance Florence.
His neighbour, Sheikh Rashed bin Said al Maktum, a shrewd, cunning and hard-working merchant who has ruled Dubai since 1958, would have been as likely a candidate.
Do dominant practices and conceptions of science and scientific method reflect an androcentric perspective, or a perspective that reflects other dominant positions, as of race and colonial rule (Merchant 1980; Harding 1986 , 1991 1993, 1998, 2006, 2008; Schiebinger 2007)?
For example, there is a new "unilateral merchant retail pricing" rule appearing in some distribution contracts which means a merchant cannot sell an item below the UMRP without facing a fine.
