Sentence examples for merchants formed from inspiring English sources

Interest in the Orient at first proved greater, however, and, in 1600, London merchants formed an East India Company.

Guild, also spelled gild, an association of craftsmen or merchants formed for mutual aid and protection and for the furtherance of their professional interests.

In 1816 and 1817, groups of merchants formed the first banks in the town, but mismanagement and the Panic of 1819 led to their closure.

Artisans and merchants formed guilds that the state had to deal with when assessing taxes, requisitioning goods, and setting standard worker's wages and prices on goods.

At the end of the Sixteenth Century a group of wealthy merchants formed a group they called "The Adventurers" and successfully petitioned the Crown to grant them a license to sail to India.

Conservative clerics and merchants form a hard-to-challenge lobby.

If that happens and small merchants form some sort of coalition, they could "get together and move somewhere else," Ms. Johnson said.

Many Renaissance and 16th 17th-century 16th 17th-centurybuildingsrous woad [pastel] dye merchants) form one of the most splendid series in France and include the hôtels de builty, du Vieux Raisin, d'Espie, and de Pierre.

Here you will find the place where merchants form India, China and more unloaded their goods.

Our first good look at interchange regulation was in Australia in 2003, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) implemented regulation reducing interchange rates by 50percentt and eliminating rules forbidding retail merchants form charging fees at the checkout counter for customers who used payment cards.

Merchants recently formed a special improvement district to attract business to Main Street, but it does not cover lower Main.