Sentences with word «mercantile»

Sri Lanka About Blog Established in 1975, Steuart Holidays, a pioneer in the Travel and Tourism Industry, is a subsidiary of the oldest mercantile establishment in Sri Lanka.
The old mercantile city had been branded with Stalin's indelible stamp; it was now a metropolis of bronze bas - reliefs of giant steelworkers with bulging forearms, of cast - iron tributes to collective farmers brandishing sixteen - foot scythes, of statues of Lenin six stories high.
It was also declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 because «the nature and quality of its architecture and of its outstanding quality as a public open space -LSB-...] illustrates in an exceptional way the evolution and achievements of a highly successful mercantile city of northern Europe at the height of its prosperity.»
Wilson started of trading at Chicago mercantile Exchange before he left the trading floor and went on to build a high - speed trading firm which is one of the biggest in the city of Chicago.
That the statelessness of mercantile interests should be confused and associated in the contemporary West with the dispersion of the Jews is not surprising.
Doing so, the company announced in 2015, would help fund the creation of affordable housing along the cobblestoned Schermerhorn Row, lined by 19th - century brick mercantile buildings that were later converted into storefronts.
It must also maintain the eventual conflicts of interest amongst countries of the triad within the frame of normal mercantile disputes not questioning their fundamental agreements.
Located down the hall from the restaurant, the Country Store at Harris Ranch is a hybrid Western mercantile general store, bakery, book store, craft gallery and gourmet grocery.
Some old timers insisted there were 11 saloons in town at one time, as well as a blacksmith, general mercantile store, pharmacy, feed store, millinery and barber shops.
Explore the old - fashioned mercantile establishments, as stores were called back then.
: James T. Fisher on the History of the Waterfront» (25:46) has author Fisher speak about New York's mercantile empire before, during, and after the time of the movie's depictions.
This 11 - day cruise from Copenhagen to Amsterdam (or the reverse) provides insight into Northern Europe's rich past and mercantile heritage with visits to eight charming ports, as well as a glimpse into life along the Kiel Canal.
By relocating and re-working this earlier installation for Venice, Nelson has both created a link between the two former great mercantile centres of the east - west / west - east axes, and drawn upon his own histories with the cities and their respective biennials.
Russian ladies are not mercantile witches hunting for men's money.
A few weeks ago, Treasury sensitively published additions to the FAQs section on the website for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the section which oversees U.S. mercantile sanctions.
on the website for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the section which oversees U.S. mercantile sanctions.
His travels, and not the expansion of European mercantile and commercial interests, opened up the possibility of traversing large expanses of sea and land to proclaim the gospel.
Russell was an important mercantile centre and served as a vital resupply port for whaling and sealing operations.
through patches of corn, wheat and mud, a large - scale painting from which the exhibition takes its title, is comprised of canvas fragments coated with natural latex and stitched together, combined with a metal armature — this sculptural element is echoed by components of a futile mercantile disposition, an installation that fills a room with a maze - like arrangement of several hundred black paintings and steel structures inspired by morgue tables.
The work of young, London - based artist Helen Marten is underpinned by an examination of contemporary social codes alongside reflections on mercantile grubbiness.
His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC is the designated mercantile judge for the Midlands sitting at the Birmingham Civil Justice Centre.
Writing in NLJ recently His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC, the designated mercantile judge for the Midlands, noted that the digital age has «revolutionised the way we all instantly communicate around the globe, making paper documents anachronistic... Lawyers — including judges — must embrace new technologies if they are to be «fit for purpose» in proportionate civil litigation; a recurring theme in the Jackson Report,» (NLJ, 8 June 2012, p 773).
The Babylonians were a highly civilized mercantile people.
«These photographs present an intriguing vision of the «unspoiled beauty» of one of the Caribbean's major islands during a period of economic and social change, and illustrate the efforts of its local ruling white mercantile elite to bring the island's valuable resources to the attention of the wider world.»
On the HKCEC terrace, Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist, uber - curators of a slightly earlier (and slightly less mercantile) phase of art world development, stood together watching Cao Fei's projection as it ran through a gobbling Pac - Man sequence (tenderly nostalgic compared to today's hyper - gory combat games).
One day last August, lender relations specialist Ford Scott and business development specialist Bob McLoone signed out an agency car and made the long drive toward the Tennessee border and Abingdon, an old mercantile town in the far southwest part of the state with red - brick buildings and red - brick sidewalks.
He said the Pioneer brand would grow as the national mercantile brand for Credit Corp..
U.S. crude oil seems to be going nowhere but the weekly New York mercantile Exchange l chart for West Texas Intermediate tells a different story.
«A crown and dogwood symbolize British Columbia, the city's mercantile history is represented by an anchor and fish symbols.
The county is racing to keep up with demand, explained Port of Douglas manager of mercantile expansion Ron Cridlebaugh.
Any pointer of mercantile crisis, though, can means critical highlight and regard about the supports they have saved up.
As Schama notes, Rembrandt's move from Leiden to Amsterdam took him from a bastion of Reformed conservatism to a polyglot capital in which the Remonstrants dominated politics and mercantile pragmatism made it sensible to tolerate anyone who offered a good deal, whether Mennonite, Jew, millenarian or Calvinist — anyone, that is, except Roman Catholics, who were required to practice their faith in clandestine sanctuaries disguised within private homes.
A socialist understanding of human rights was evolved in Europe due to the oppression of the European working class under mercantile and industrial capitalism.
This social order was maintained basically unchanged for nearly a thousand years till the rise of mercantile capitalism in the middle ages.
Our chunky rustic bars wrapped in their trademark old - fashioned mercantile packaging are full of good - for - you oils, butters, clay, herbs, etc.....
wearing: vintage leopard print coat from secret shop vintage, wool sweater from mill mercantile, vegan leather skirt courtesy of lulu's, vintage salvatore ferragamo boots, rebecca minkoff bag, la marquise glasses courtesy of bonlook.
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My favorite was j crew factory, but now mercantile is basically the same.
What «The Deuce» does offer is mercantile sex, drugs and downtrodden characters like the ones who walked Simon's «The Wire,» for which Pelecanos also wrote.
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