Sentences with phrase «usury held»

His attack on the unsavory and unproductive practice of usury held force virtually until the fifteenth century, when John Calvin's writings started greatly to influence the study of economics.

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They also expanded their holdings through usury and the various other legal or illegal methods by which the great families amassed their holdings.
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