Sentence examples for merchant state from inspiring English sources

"The scars of history are really very, very serious, and so we made the decision to bid farewell to the concept of a state based on power and become a merchant state," Joschka Fischer, the former foreign minister, told me.

But Germany has evolved and has begun to question whether it can be only a merchant state, a Venice; existing as a major market force without real power.

A step change in moral attitudes really came about with the rise of the merchant states of the Netherlands and Britain in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

The sultans thus not only kept a close watch over the slave market but also commissioned slave merchants as state agents.

In one email in December 2005, Merchant bluntly stated which rate he wanted: "4.48 fixing" – or "I will get slaughtered", as he wrote in another message.

'Not About to Break the Bank' The produce merchants that state officials tried to lure to New Jersey ultimately decided to remain in Philadelphia, but only after the city offered them $150 million in incentives to stay.

Keep in mind that many online merchants will state that their honey is 100 percent natural, which may mean that it has actually been heated up to temperatures of 120 degrees F (48.8 C).

To start collecting from remote merchants, the states must first simplify the process, establishing uniform definitions of what is taxable and what is exempt.

Sessions is an old-school drug warrior who is fairly open about his hatred of weed, so it's natural that he rescinded the Cole Memo, the Obama-era guidance that told the feds to lay off cannabis merchants in states like Colorado and Washington except in extreme circumstances.

Walter Hellerstein, a University of Georgia tax law professor who is an expert on sales taxes, said one of the project's goals was to "streamline and harmonize" so there was no longer any justification to exempt a merchant in one state from collecting taxes on a sale to someone in another state.

His father was a farmer, a merchant and a state legislator; at the age of 3, Calvin sat in the governor's chair, hewed from the timbers of the U.S.S.