Sentence examples for merchant sector from inspiring English sources

The so-called merchant sector of the industry, in which Duke Energy and other companies generate power to sell to other utilities, is growing rapidly through both acquisition of existing power plants and construction of new ones.

Finally, column IV shows the results where the intensity of the use of cards and cash across merchant sectors are controlled for.

In particular, the effects of card payments on the demand for cash (for purchases) in certain merchant sectors may per se be invariably conditional on merchant's acceptance (related, for example, to idiosyncratic reasons and the size of payments) in that sector.

The landowners' power was unsuccessfully challenged by the industrial and merchant sectors.

The landowners' power was challenged by the industrial and merchant sectors, largely unsuccessfully.

On a business trip to Laredo in 2000, he discovered that inland port's gold mine:  a downtown merchants sector where millions of dollars in goods and cash exchange hands every week.

The latter distinction is relevant since there is significant variability in the use of cash and cards across merchants sectors.

First there was the Enron debacle which brought down the merchant energy sector.

Of the restructuring, Dynegy Chairman and Chief Executive Chuck Watson said, "Enron's financial collapse was an unprecedented event and as such it is appropriate for participants in the merchant energy sector to examine ways to strengthen their balance sheets".

"Cosco's presence in the port of Pireaus … has brought great benefits to the Greek public sector," the merchant marine minister Miltiades Varvitsiotis said last week as he dismissed suggestions that Beijing was exploiting Greece because of the bargain prices at which much of its infrastructure was being sold.

Merchants became a wealthy sector of Japanese society by the 17th century.