As a result, many merchant families had coats of arms even though they were not members of the nobility.

The Spanish and the Dutch Republic outnumbered the English fleet's 22 galleons and 108 armed merchant ships ; however, The Spanish lost as a result of bad weather on the English Channel and poor planning and logistics, and in the face of the skills of Sir Francis Drake and Charles Howard, the second Baron Howard of Effingham ( later first Earl of Nottingham ).

As a result, their merchant fleet was largely destroyed by Allied submarines.

However, Cabral entered into a conflict with the local Arab merchant guilds, with the result that the Portuguese factory was overrun in a riot and up to 70 Portuguese killed.

The merchant fleet entered into a period of diversification that would eventually result in the creation of three entities:

As a result, the Ming economic system emphasized agriculture, unlike the economic system of the Song Dynasty, which had preceded the Mongols and had relied on traders and merchant for revenues.

This resulted in a struggle between the shōgun and the merchant class, as a result of the political limitations that the shōgun imposed.

Other countries in Europe had reformed and modernised their law, and the result of this was that English merchant law was about a century behind the merchant law of other European countries.

Foreign coins were common in the early years of the New South Wales colony but much of this coin left the colony as a result of trade with visiting merchant ships.

To resolve the lack of supplies, a result of the trade embargo, he created the country's merchant marine, which opened trade routes with the ports of the American countries that had recognized the national independence and with which diplomatic relations were established.

This consolidation came about as a result of Geddes Report, published in 1966 and the subsequent Shipbuilding Industry Act 1967, sponsored by the Ministry of Technology under Wedgewood Benn, which recommended rationalisation and horizontal integration of shipbuilding in the United Kingdom into large regional groups, aided with grants from the state Shipbuilding Industry Board, in order to achieve economies of scale and better compete in the market for increasingly large merchant vessels like VLCCs.

As a result, Islamic civilization grew and expanded on the basis of its merchant economy, in contrast to the Christians, Indians and Chinese who based their societies on an agricultural landholding nobility.

As a result, from the end of January to July 1942, German U-Boats sank 13 Brazilian merchant vessels.

A négociant is the French term for a wine merchant who assembles the produce of smaller growers and winemakers and sells the result under its own name.

It originally opened in 1750 as the result of a bequest by Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant who made his fortune from trading with Baltic ports, and was known at foundation as Robert Gordon's Hospital.

In 1862, facing difficulties as a result of the Civil War, the firm teamed up with a cotton merchant named John Durr to form Lehman, Durr & Co.

The initial result is known as " merchant capitalism ", which flourished in Western European cities in the 17th and 18th century.

As a result of the 1987 stock market crash, major corporate collapses including that of Connell's merchant bank Rothwells unwound some of those deals which, in turn, caused major losses to the state.

For example, the online shoe retailer Zappos. com includes labels for free return shipping, and does not charge a restocking fee, even for returns which are not the result of merchant error.

Many consumers wish to avoid spam and telemarketing which could result from supplying contact information to an online merchant.

By 1961, the number of orphans being cared for by the school had reduced compared to the number in the late 19th century, as a result of the smaller size of the British merchant fleet relative to the same period.

After the war he became a timber merchant ; as a result, he was sometimes known as " Chopper ".

As a result of the transaction, the firm operated under the name A. G. Becker-Warburg Paribas Becker and was 40 % owned by the two European merchant banks and 60 % owned by the existing shareholders of Becker, a combination of employees and management.

As a result, many people have been confirmed in their conviction that orthography design is not an activity to which experts can contribute anything but confusion.

More complex assistive technology devices have been developed over time, and as a result, sports for people with disabilities " have changed from being a clinical therapeutic tool to an increasingly competition-oriented activity ".

The warning — a result of violent activity springing from Mexico's drug cartel debacle — took college campuses by storm, with some schools going so far as to warn their students about the risks of travel to Mexico over spring break.

The dominant mechanisms ( to which recent climate change has been attributed ) are anthropogenic, i. e., the result of human activity.

About 120 – 130 species have become extinct as a result of human activity since the 17th century, and hundreds more before then.

As a result of this continued activity the IMC said the group remained " a very serious threat ".

The craters of the moon have been well preserved through time and were once thought to have been the result of extreme volcanic activity, but instead were formed by meteorites, nearly all of which took place in the first few hundred million years after the Moon formed.

As result, any corporate privacy policy related to e-commerce activity may be subject to enforcement by the FTC.

A more recent addition to ecosystem ecology are technoecosystems, which are affected by or primarily the result of human activity.

Epileptic seizures result from abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain.

Given good circumstances one might be able to discern the result of some human activity such as the changing of the Netherlands ' coast or the partial drying out of the Aral Sea, but even that would not be easy.

Many birds have become extinct as a result of human activity, especially birds endemic to islands, including many flightless birds ( see a more complete list under extinct birds ).

The same researchers claim the species is at least somewhat nocturnal, with peak activity being reported by one source as occurring around “ two hours after dark ” and again at dawn ( although the dawn peak was recorded in the lab and could be misleading as a result ).

* Primary pathogens cause disease as a result of their presence or activity within the normal, healthy host, and their intrinsic virulence ( the severity of the disease they cause ) is, in part, a necessary consequence of their need to reproduce and spread.

An opportunistic disease requires impairment of host defenses, which may occur as a result of genetic defects ( such as Chronic granulomatous disease ), exposure to antimicrobial drugs or immunosuppressive chemicals ( as might occur following poisoning or cancer chemotherapy ), exposure to ionizing radiation, or as a result of an infectious disease with immunosuppressive activity ( such as with measles, malaria or HIV disease ).

Sexually transmitted diseases are acquired through contact with bodily fluids, generally as a result of sexual activity.

In 2005, C. Davis and C. Johnson, working at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, UK, demonstrated that the Es layer was indeed enhanced as a result of lightning activity.

Erosion along limestone shores, notably in the tropics, produces karst topography that includes a sharp makatea surface above the normal reach of the sea and undercuts that are mostly the result of biological activity or bioerosion at or a little above mean sea level.

The main objective of FinTRACA is to deny the use of the Afghan financial system to those who obtained funds as the result of illegal activity, and to those who would use it to support terrorist activities.

* Substances that increase serotonin, norepinephrine, and / or dopamine activity, as too much of any of these neurochemicals can result in severe acute consequences, including serotonin syndrome, hypertensive crisis, and psychosis, respectively.

Modern relief was formed as a result of glacier activity.

As a result of its diplomatic activity, North Korea established relations with 63 countries in a decade.

The population is largely Christian as a result of missionary activity in the 19th century.

Orgasms can be multiple or spontaneous, and some non-sexual activity may result in a spontaneous orgasm.