Sentences with phrase «thrived on the commerce»

Some towns thrived on the commerce produced by local industry — toile (fabric printed with rustic scenes on unbleached cotton or linen), which was the specialty of a town called Jouy, is a fine example.

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«Allowing internet platforms on which sexual services are brokered to thrive may be key to apprehending traffickers and recovering victims,» wrote legal scholar Ariel Levy in a 2017 paper on sex commerce online.
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