Sentences with phrase «vital trade routes»

As in the south, the larger cities probably controlled extensive regions with vital trade routes.

Pirates are disrupting vital trade routes and kidnapping tourists.

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This sea is also a major shipping route, the disruption of which would interrupt vital supply lines of energy, food and other trade with serious impacts on the regional and global economies.

The sea route from Egypt to India became very vital for the Roman trade and Augustus had to take steps to ensure its safety.

Locals, especially businessmen, would have preferred to see resources spent on improving the vital routes to Kasindi, Beni, or Goma (parts of which hardly pass for roads at all, obviously hindering trade).

Ammon provided several natural resources to the region, including sandstone and limestone, along with a productive agricultural sector that made Ammon a vital location along the King's Highway, the ancient trade route connecting Egypt with...

This UNESCO General Conference Resolution recognizes the importance of the Manila - Acapulco trade route as a precursor of globalization and a vital vessel of cross-cultural exchange for 250 years.

«Trans teachers face significant discrimination at work and trade unions are a vital route of support.

This cliff - side citadel was built along a vital coastal trade route.