Sentence examples for suppression of trade from inspiring English sources

Then there's the suppression of trade unions.

Comstock Act, federal statute passed by the U.S. Congress in 1873 as an "Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use".

Incensed by "lewdness," Comstock worked the halls of Congress and in 1873 got passed the "Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use," otherwise known as the Comstock Act.

Advocates for FTTs tout suppression of trading as an added benefit at a time in which algorithm-driven computers are making patsies out of ordinary investors by flipping stocks in split-second intervals based on inside information.

Large-scale trading activities declined with the suppression of the slave trade and the construction of the Benguela Railway in 1904.

The congress also discussed suppression of the slave trade and of the Barbary pirates, but no decision was reached.

It was by Kirk's efforts that Barghash consented in 1873 to a treaty for the suppression of the slave trade.

Webster Ashburton Treaty, (1842), treaty between the U.S. and Great Britain establishing the northeastern boundary of the U.S. and providing for Anglo U.S. cooperation in the suppression of the slave trade.

The kingdom's prosperity declined with the suppression of the slave trade, and, as its territorial extent shrank, Benin's leaders increasingly relied on supernatural rituals and large-scale human sacrifices to protect the state from further territorial encroachment.

The independence of Brazil in 1822, the suppression of the slave trade in the Portuguese territories, and the introduction of coffee and cacao (the source of cocoa beans) cultivation in the 19th century shifted the economic centre of gravity back to São Tomé, and in 1852 São Tomé city once again became the capital.

PEKING — The agitation in connection with the opium question is rapidly reaching a crisis, owing to the persistent demands made by the British Legation for an indemnity for breaches of the opium agreements and the re-issue of the instructions prohibiting the suppression of the retail trade in the provinces in which the cultivation has not been suppressed.