Sentences with phrase «on mercantile»
The work of young, London - based artist Helen Marten is underpinned by an examination of contemporary social codes alongside reflections on mercantile grubbiness.
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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.
On the other hand, this vision also functioned to resist what were deemed to be the evils of colonial and mercantile interests.
For the Skimpoles of this world, the ultimate source of bread is the baker's van, and there is no need to concern oneself with plowing, sowing, weeding, dunging, cutting, threshing, milling, and baking — not to mention the thousands of mercantile transactions, from mortgages to tire rotations — that must be in place, and continually attended to, so that Skimpole might have his honey on toast.
To a traveler arriving on the morning train — by now an expert on Pennsylvania coal towns — the hat shop and dry - goods store, the pharmacy and mercantile, seem built to last.
which means someone else is paying their hard earned money for an asset that might not BE worth it (hence why I use the word gamble) I include my (bracketed) opinions, based on research into why and how the stock market was created in mercantile tiles, and how its been abused in modern times, profit for profits sake.
GI senior features editor Matt Helgeson made an excellent point on a recent GI podcast that the presence of microtransactions in $ 60 games makes the relationship between gamer and developer a nakedly mercantile one.
The ARGO may not be any kind of warship and it's unlikely an ARGO will ever be the first to set down on an alien world... but they are an essential part of human commerce, which makes them a valuable tool for anyone interested in building a mercantile empire.
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).
It became the state capital in 1846, representing the shift of power to the south - central area with the growth of cotton as a commodity crop of the Black Belt and the rise of Mobile as a mercantile port on the Gulf Coast.