Sentence examples for merchants spread from inspiring English sources

From the 13th through the 17th century, Sunni Islam, carried chiefly by Arab and Indian merchants, spread widely through peninsular and insular Southeast Asia.

Just as important, there are communities of sophisticated and shrewd Shiite merchants spread all over the Persian Gulf region, commanding billions of dollars in wealth and a fierce sense of solidarity with their brethren.

We wouldn't have had as much success attacking all of these markets at the same time, but one at a time it was manageable". This strategy certainly seems to have paid off, as CMS now serves 5,000 merchants spread over 130 countries, and supports 28 different currencies.

Four stages, dozens of food trucks and merchants spread over an easily traversable plot of acreage, FYF Fest has been called a mini-Coachella, which is somewhat accurate.

One family with the surname Hu became renowned salt merchants who spread out to the nearby coastal provinces like Zhejiang and to Shanghai.

The publicity campaign, which began July 2, may also have contributed to the increase: it involves newspaper and radio ads as well as city and state workers' visiting Lower Manhattan merchants to spread the word.

Merchants often spread their wares out on the sidewalk, down the block from a building used for administration by Ottoman-era officials and, after World War I, British colonial officers.

The law merchant gradually spread as the traders went from place to place.

In the following centuries, merchant banking spread across Europe and then to the United States, becoming the occupation of the big banking houses like J.P. Morgan.

One local version of the Kraton riot is that a rival kerosene merchant had spread the rumor that Mrs. Nu ning had raised her prices.

Though cognizant of the problems posed by merchants and the spread of a commercial economy, Tanuma chose not to suppress the activities of big-city merchants but rather used them to promote production; while advancing the development of the commercial economy, he sought to control it.