Sentence examples for middlemen have been from inspiring English sources

"Intelligent agents", the information-gathering software that is supposed to replace middlemen, have been stymied at every turn.

Since the Taliban fell from power, farmers have been planting more poppies, and middlemen have been dumping opium stocks into the market, sending prices plunging by half.

In recent days, more than a dozen dairy middlemen have been charged with endangering public security in the northern province of Hebei and put on trial.

First, the country and its hundreds of wood-products corporations and middlemen have been remarkably aggressive in pursuing timber supplies globally, while generally being little concerned with social equity or environmental sustainability.

Mitsubishi's long-term rating fell to BBB+ from A- while Marubeni's short-term rating slipped to C, the second lowest, from B. Trading companies, which make money as financial middlemen, have been hit hard by the country's recession.

The middlemen have been kept anonymous by Buzzfeed, which said that one of the men claimed his motivation was "a humanity case," and an attempt to help the grieving family find closure.

He said: "As long as students or other sectors in Hong Kong are prepared to focus on this issue, yes we are ready, we are prepared to start the dialogue," adding that middlemen had been in touch with student protest leaders.

Three New York State motor vehicle clerks and a middleman have been charged with fixing 1,475 traffic tickets for taxi and truck drivers facing suspensions of their licenses, the state inspector general announced on Tuesday.

The middleman has been eliminated; what used to be the purely regional value of a particular title no longer applies; and the Internet has transformed the world into a huge marketplace for used books.

Web sites in California and Wisconsin, among other places, allow farmers to sell produce and meat directly to consumers, yielding a better price at both ends because the middleman has been eliminated.

To think about it a different way, a tontine is like an annuity in which the middleman has been cut out -- another advantage that tontines have over annuities, proponents say.