Tradesmen Sentence Examples

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  • Tradesmen began trading in booths.

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  • His debts to Oxford tradesmen were small indeed, yet larger than he could pay.

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  • From the beginning, however, tradesmen and handicraftsmen had settled in the town, all of them freemen of German parentage and with property and houses of their own.

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  • Tradesmen and their assistants (of whom there were but few) moved about among the soldiers quite bewildered.

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  • Can you find any tradesmen who are still working?

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  • Of recent years, however, the operatives have moved into the suburbs, leaving the model houses of the "artisans' town" to small tradesmen.

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  • In 1659 the elder Mayhew sold a joint interest in the greater part of the island of Nantucket for £ 3 0 and two beaver hats to nine partners; early in the following year the first ten admitted ten others as equal proprietors, and later, in order to encourage them to settle here, special half-grants were offered to tradesmen.

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  • In 1511 was completed another famous painting, multitudinous in the number of its figures though of very moderate dimensions, the "Adoration of the Trinity by all the Saints," a subject commissioned for a chapel dedicated to All Saints in an almshouse for decayed tradesmen at Nuremberg, and now at the Imperial Gallery at Vienna.

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  • We Fix offers a complete management service, providing approved tradesmen to complete the job in a timely manner and to the highest standard.

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  • In the constitution of 1669, under the pressure of a large public debt, the great companies yielded a specified share in the financial administration to the leading gilds of tradesmen.

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  • The petitions for a university at Irkutsk, the money required for which has been freely offered to the government, have been refused, and the imperative demands of the local tradesmen for technical instruction have likewise met with little response.

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  • His father had spared their lay chiefs, and contented himself with burning preachers or tradesmen.

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  • Your insurer or loss adjuster can give advice on reputable contractors / tradesmen.

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  • The boiler suits normally worn by University tradesmen may not be suitable and they should be encouraged to wear impermeable disposable coveralls.

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  • Despite encounters with wry customs officers and wily tradesmen, the Kerrs ' sense of humor remains irrepressible.

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  • The first declared that the report that Count Rostopchin had forbidden people to leave Moscow was false; on the contrary he was glad that ladies and tradesmen's wives were leaving the city.

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  • The intention is to appoint respectable married tradesmen to these positions.

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  • These tiling courses have been designed to turn novices into skilled tradesmen.

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  • The employer already has obtained the necessary government permits to employ foreign tradesmen.

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  • Including Shops, Restaurants & Car Sales to self-employed tradesmen.

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  • We would expect large projects at least to be carried out by qualified tradesmen.

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  • Later this character would appear on a TV. programs called, ' Police trap rogue tradesmen on video '.

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  • These include a particularly good set of eighteenth century tradesmen 's bills.

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  • They comprise about 2,300 items, of which nearly half are tradesmen 's accounts to John Foster from the 1770s to 1810.

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  • The merchants and tradesmen of the town each had their own society.

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  • He expected the village to provide tradesmen for his Dunnichen Estate and that each family would become involved in the handloom weaving of linen.

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  • Many tradesmen, such as auto mechanics, also wear them to protect their regular clothing from grime.

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  • Great writers like Milton and Harrington supported Cromwell's view of the duty of a statesman; the poet Waller acclaimed Cromwell as "the world's protector"; but the London tradesmen complained of the loss of their Spanish trade and regarded Holland and not Spain as the national enemy.

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  • In the Baltic provinces they constitute the ennobled landlord class, and are the tradesmen and artisans in the towns.

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  • Considerable numbers of Germans, tradesmen and artisans, settled at the invitation of the Russian government in many of the larger towns as early as the 16th century, and to a much greater extent in the 18th century.

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  • Another, Daniel Neal, in 1720, found Boston conversation " as polite as in most of the cities and towns in England, many of their merchants having the advantage of a free conversation with travellers; so that a gentleman from London would almost think himself at home at Boston, when he observes the number of people, their houses, their furniture, their tables, their dress and conversation, which perhaps is as splendid and showy as that of the most considerable tradesmen in London."

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  • At the beginning of the 19th century it had become common for the tradesmen of the city to live away from their businesses, but it was only about the middle of the 19th century that it became at all usual for those in the West End to do the same.

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  • As the Altstadt is mainly occupied by artisans and petty tradesmen, so the Neustadt is the principal business quarter of the city, containing the chief public buildings and the principal hotels.

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  • There is undoubtedly in the lower ranks of Japanese tradesmen a comparatively large fringe of persons whose standard of commercial morality is defective.

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  • Wood's copper money for Ireland and America was coined at Wolverhampton (1700-1722), and the tradesmen's tokens were struck at various towns.

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  • There were among them numbers of farmers and tradesmen of British blood.

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  • The dissidents had no political rights, and their religious liberties had also been unjustly restricted; but two-thirds of them being agricultural labourers, and most of the rest artisans or petty tradesmen, they had no desire to enter public life, and were so ignorant and illiterate that their new protectors, on a closer acquaintance, became heartily ashamed of them.

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  • In the hope of relieving his financial difficulties, the king erected a mint, where money was coined of the "worst kind of old brass, guns and the refuse of metals, melted down together," of the nominal value of £1,568,800, with which his troops were paid, and tradesmen were compelled to receive it under penalty of being hanged in case of refusal.

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  • Peasants and lahdlords, artisans and tradesmen, each formed their own league for the protection of their interests, and all looked to the state as the proper guardian of their class interests.

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  • Some further details are to be found in documents preserved by the archaeologist Maqrizi, from which it appears that the sum for which each district was responsible was distributed over the unit in such a way that artisans and tradesmen paid at a rate similar to that which was enforced on those employed in agriculture.

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  • These sons of poor peasants, artisans or tradesmen are already disposed to narrow fanaticism, and generally take up study as a means of livelihood rather than from genuine religious interest.

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  • Tradesmen are less affected, because they can sell the articles which they manufacture at values which are more in proportion with the increased prices of food.

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  • For the most part this is founded on Dutch models, and testifies in a high degree to the king's progressive aims. Provision was made for the better education of the lower, and the restriction of the political influence of the higher clergy; there were stern prohibitions against wreckers and "the evil and unchristian practice of selling peasants as if they were brute beasts"; the old trade gilds were retained, but the rules of admittance thereto made easier, and trade combinations of the richer burghers, to the detriment of the smaller tradesmen, were sternly forbidden.

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  • At the east end of Union Street is the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, erected in 1893 by the royal tradesmen of the city.

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  • Tradesmen allow discount for ready money, this being usually at so much in the shilling or £.

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  • After the issue, 1839, of the hatt-i-sherif of Gal-khaneh, the tradesmen and artisans of the capital freed themselves from clerical control.

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  • Mechanics and tradesmen who come in person to the forest on no other errand, are sure to attend the wood auction, and even pay a high price for the privilege of gleaning after the woodchopper.

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  • Beside Petya stood a peasant woman, a footman, two tradesmen, and a discharged soldier.

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  • Many people were hurrying through the streets and there were many soldiers, but cabs were still driving about, tradesmen stood at their shops, and service was being held in the churches as usual.

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  • In the waiting room were tradesmen, women, and officials, looking silently at one another.

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  • Besides the plunderers, very various people, some drawn by curiosity, some by official duties, some by self-interest--house owners, clergy, officials of all kinds, tradesmen, artisans, and peasants--streamed into Moscow as blood flows to the heart.

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  • Here we can see two other groups of important tradesmen in the town.

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  • Like his father, he looked for support to the popular party, to the tradesmen, particularly the powerful gild of the butchers, and also to the university of Paris.

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  • The original twenty proprietors, however, endeavoured to exclude the tradesmen from any voice in the government, and this caused strife.

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  • A new assessment of the maliat, based upon the present value of the produce of lands and actual profits of artisans and tradesmen, has frequently been spoken of, and government, aided by a strong minister of the interior and an able minister of finance, ought to have no difficulty in raising the maliat to its proper level and the total revenues of the country to about two millions sterling.

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  • Among them were cadets of old families, retired officers, professional men, farmers, tradesmen, mechanics and labourers.

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  • Susis are well known in the north of Morocco as able tradesmen and clever metal workers.

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  • When he first read that instrument he was very much opposed to the consolidated government which it provided, but was induced to befriend it by resolutions which were passed at a mass meeting of Boston mechanics or "tradesmen" - his own firmest supporters - and by the suggestion that its ratification should be accompanied by a recommendation of amendments designed chiefly to supply the omission of a bill of rights.

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