Sentence examples for merchants passing from inspiring English sources

Local legend has it that invading armies, merchants passing through and other visitors spilling through the Hindu Kush gathered here, in the street between two rows of tightly packed, towering shops, to sip tea and trade tales.

Later, it became an important city of the Hellenistic period and a key trading post for merchants passing between the Mediterranean and lands to the east.

Is it unreasonable to expect that merchants pass along at least some of the savings to customers, in the form of lower prices at check out?

Encountered on a mountain pass, the good Taliban usually let the merchants pass through, often for a small bribe, Zalmai said.

He explained that when people link their credit cards to Blippy, merchants pass along their raw transaction data -- including some credit card numbers -- and the site scrubs that information to present just the merchant and the dollar amount spent.

In the United States, the Government Accountability Office last week issued a report showing that consumers who did not use credit cards "may be made worse off by paying higher prices for goods and services, as merchants pass on their increasing card acceptance costs to their customers".

Though charged to the merchant, most merchants pass this fee onto you, the consumers.

The trouble is that their customers are banks–not consumers, who face higher prices as merchants pass on higher fees in the form of higher prices.

Many of these merchants passed on this demand to their customers, although the popular governor, John Hancock, did not impose hard currency demands on poorer borrowers and refused to actively prosecute the collection of delinquent taxes.

The public pays for much of the swipe fees banks charge retailers, as merchants pass on the costs in the form of higher prices for consumers -- even those paying with cash.

The Dodd-Frank financial reform law "needs to be more explicit and should follow the California law to say under no circumstances can merchants pass on those interchange fees to the consumer," he said.