Sentence examples for merchants engaged from inspiring English sources

There were certainly Jewish merchants engaged in the business, but the owners and creditors spanned the spectrum of religious and cultural affiliation.

The formation in 1824 of the Netherlands Trading Society (Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij; NHM a company embracing all merchants engaged in the East Indies trade and supported by the government of The Netherlands with the king as its chief shareholder did not produce the hoped-for commercial expansion.

He was also one of "a selected fraternity" of merchants engaged in the "eastward trade" with neighboring French Acadia, one of whose leading members was Boston merchant John Nelson.

Along with changing simple transactions with friends, these technologies are also adapting the way merchants engage with their customers and employees.

Marketed as an antidote to the recession, the shopping engine could work if enough consumers and merchants engage with the site.

Merchant Adventurers, company of English merchants who engaged in trade with the Netherlands (and later with northwest Germany) from the early 15th century to 1806.

"Some third-party payment processors know that their merchants are engaged in fraud and yet continue to process their transactions in violation of federal law," said Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery at Tuesday's hearing.

The merchant won't recongize the customer, but Bindo allows merchants to engage with customers after a sale.

He wrote, 'People along the coast are on intimate terms with the merchants who engage in overseas trade, either because they are fellow-countrymen or personal acquaintances....[They give the merchants] money to take with them on their ships for purchase and return conveyance of foreign goods.

A number of nations, following the model of the French law of 1838, extend their bankruptcy laws only to persons qualifying as merchants or engaging in trade but do not differentiate between individuals and corporations.

Lobbied by Moses and other Quakers, the General Assembly passed an anti-slaving law in 1787, and seven years later, as a result of their efforts, the United States Congress banned merchants from engaging in the slave trade between foreign ports.