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Example sentences for: merchants

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He demanded that the British merchants in Canton surrender their opium stores, and to back up his ultimatum he laid siege to the traders, who, after six tense weeks, surrendered over 20,000 chests of opium.
With the Jews who left Spain went many of the country’s bankers and merchants, and with the Moors, a good number of its agriculturists and laborers.
Hedges says that KLA shakedowns of merchants are the order of the day, and he describes the confiscation of one furniture merchant's car and the theft of $50,000 worth of his inventory.
The barons of beerdom are not the only merchants to have produced reduced-calorie ingestibles.
Royal officials and wealthy merchants worshiped here until the Revolution caused a split in the congregation and placed the church in jeopardy.