Sentence examples for trade decrees from inspiring English sources

The trade decrees of the emperor Diocletian set regulations for determining a price for the copying of books.

The charter asserted that the colonies existed for the good of the mother country, prohibited free trade, and decreed that the colonies would be governed directly by a semi-autonomous native bureaucracy and indirectly by a Dutch bureaucracy.

"Quotas create a monumental burden of monitoring and verification," says Connor, a prime beneficiary of modern trade's byzantine quota decrees.

It decreed a trade embargo on neighbouring Megara, but the ensuing 27-year struggle left the Athenians humiliated and Megara's ally, Corinth, triumphant.That may be the first instance of sanctions failing, but there are plenty of more recent cases.

A thousand rupees is about fifteen U.S. dollars; holders of the discontinued bills, Modi decreed, must trade in their obsolete notes within fifty days, after which time they will be worthless.

The lecture was on the topic of men's underwear, which — as Cole points out in his recent book, "The Story of Men's Underwear" — the trade journal Men's Wear decreed, in 1933, "should have the grace of Apollo, the romance of Byron, the distinction of Lord Chesterfield, and the ease, coolness, and comfort of Mahatma Gandhi".

The lecture was on the topic of men's underwear, which as Cole points out in his recent book, "The Story of Men's Underwear"—the trade journal Men's Wear decreed, in 1933, "should have the grace of Apollo, the romance of Byron, the distinction of Lord Chesterfield, and the ease, coolness, and comfort of Mahatma Gandhi".

In spite of such decrees, however, the opium trade continued to flourish.

To ensure that the increasingly healthy profits of this trade remained in English hands, Parliament decreed in 1651 that only English ships would be able to ply their trade in English colonies.

The existence of a flourishing underground organ trade in a country ruled by authoritarian decree rather than written law should not exactly come as a shock.

During the same period, Pericles proposed the Megarian Decree, which resembled a modern trade embargo.