Sentences with phrase «centuries old trade»

It's a centuries old trade, a huge necessity, and more common than one would think.

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Negotiations start Wednesday for an update to the quarter - century - old North American Free Trade Agreement.
President Donald Trump wasted no time Monday moving ahead on his campaign promise to renegotiate a nearly quarter - century - old free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico — a move that could end up hurting workers in the states that heavily supported him.
Housed in a century - old structure that has been home to a trading post, auto shop and notorious saloon, its newest incarnation as a pub is equal parts rustic and modern.
The century - old farm, which included 250 acres of cranberry bogs, was purchased in 1982 by Evan Schulman, a pioneer of high - speed stock trading.
«The current review of party funding must not interfere with Labour's century - old trade union link or restrict the right of trade unionists to support collectively the political party of their choice,» he warned.
• A New Look at Old World Money For more than a century, archaeological excavations have uncovered evidence that ancient Bronze Age civilizations carried on long - distance trading of tin, copper, lapis lazuli, and gold.
For almost two decades, she has been an informed fashion critic and editor of the century - old daily industry trade paper.
In this 20th - century western, hero Gene Autry uses his old - fashioned horse and six - shooter to foil the plans of cattle rustlers, who ply their trade via airplanes, refrigerated trucks, and shortwave radios.
Vazante (Unrated) 19th Century saga, set in Brazil's Diamantina Mountains, about a slave - trading plantation owner (Adriano Carvalho) who decides to marry his 12 year - old niece (Luana Nastas), after his wife dies during childbirth.
In 1971, he acquired the musty, failing half - century - old Barnes & Noble bookstore on Fifth Avenue and 18th Street for $ 750,000 and transformed it into «The World's Largest Bookstore,» with 150,000 textbook and trade titles.
Hanoi's Old Quarter has been a buzzing centre of trade for centuries, and today you can still pick up locally made silks and souvenirs to take back home.
Phuket has a very rich history, because it is in the middle of a historic trading route from India to China it was used as a stop off point for trading vessels for centuries and as such appears in ship logs and journals of many old school traders.
Estimated to be more than six centuries old, Tulum was once a thriving community enlivened by the obsidian trade market.
A painting of African American cotton - pickers by Clementine Hunter and a desk carved by emancipated slave William Howard illustrate an 18th - century fieldhands» song: «Caller: Old Joseph was a wood workin» man... When he got old he lost his way... Makes that boss man right mad... Needs a young man to learn his trade,» with a recurring chorus of «Hoe Emma Hoe, you turn around dig a hole in the ground, Hoe Emma Hoe.&raqOld Joseph was a wood workin» man... When he got old he lost his way... Makes that boss man right mad... Needs a young man to learn his trade,» with a recurring chorus of «Hoe Emma Hoe, you turn around dig a hole in the ground, Hoe Emma Hoe.&raqold he lost his way... Makes that boss man right mad... Needs a young man to learn his trade,» with a recurring chorus of «Hoe Emma Hoe, you turn around dig a hole in the ground, Hoe Emma Hoe.»
In doing so they will complete the first known commercial shipment from Asia to Europe via the Arctic — a centuries - old dream of mariners, after nearly 500 years of dreaming about such a trade route.
Titus said:» I am old enough to know that the Russians developed a shipping trade across northern Siberia in the early 19th century.
Titus you say «I am old enough to know that the Russians developed a shipping trade across northern Siberia in the early 19th century.
I am old enough to know that the Russians developed a shipping trade across northern Siberia in the early 19th century.
But the finalized rule — a revision of the Endangered Species Act — closes this loophole and limits the legal trade in elephant ivory only to antiques that are over a century old, as well as certain pre-existing manufactured products that contain less than 200 grams of ivory.
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