Bienville, who returned to succeed Perier in 1732, objected that the merchants would not accept the responsibility of managing a trade in which they could see no hope of profits.

The similarity of the Roman abacus to the Chinese one suggests that one could have inspired the other, as there is some evidence of a trade relationship between the Roman Empire and China.

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

From the Black Sea, trade could continue to Asia along the Silk Road, another ancient trade route.

For a century free trade was the one cause which could unite all Liberals.

All of this could well add up to a major readjustment of the U. S. trade deficit, which as a percentage of GDP, began in 1991.

The successful American businessman and investor Warren Buffett was quoted in the Associated Press ( January 20, 2006 ) as saying " The U. S trade deficit is a bigger threat to the domestic economy than either the federal budget deficit or consumer debt and could lead to political turmoil ...

A realistic general core vocabulary could contain 2000 words ( the core 850 words, plus 200 international words, and 1000 words for the general fields of trade, economics, and science ).

This resulted in strict rationing of food and other essential goods continuing in the post war period to force a reduction in consumption in an effort to limit imports, boost exports, and stabilise the Pound Sterling so that Britain could trade its way out of its financial state.

Indians executive Hank Greenberg was not happy about the trade and neither was Maris, who said that he could not stand Lane.

His main emphasis was on the benefit of free internal and international trade, which he thought could increase wealth through specialization in production.

Due to the distance of trade for this steel, a sufficiently lengthy disruption of the trade routes could have ended the production of Damascus steel and eventually led to the loss of the technique in India.

Rand argued that other people are an enormous value to an individual's well-being ( through education, trade and affection ), but also that this value could be fully realized only under conditions of political and economic freedom.

In principle, the overall gains from trade could be used to compensate for the effects of reduced trade barriers by appropriate inter-party transfers.

Eventually, the Nazi party developed strong relationships with big business and abolished trade unions while real wages dropped by a fourth, and employees could not easily change employer.

The period from 1933 to 1937 was characterized by the systematic elimination of non-Nazi organizations that could potentially influence people, such as trade unions and political parties.

Because of industrialization and modernization of the trade and industry, and the rise of powerful nation-states that could directly issue patent and copyright protections — often revealing the trade secrets — the guilds ' power faded.

It was agreed with the Gardners that Gerald would live with her on a tea plantation named Ladbroke Estate in Maskeliya district, where he could learn the tea trade.

Due to high demand in import goods, Hungary also had a high trade deficit and budget gap, and it could not reach an agreement with the IMF, either.

Strabo, writing late in Augustus's reign, claims that taxes on trade brought in more annual revenue than any conquest could.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.

The presence of the two exhaust fans seemed to indicate that the hall could become crowded for air.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

Their roar, like the swelling volume of a hundred tornadoes could be heard for miles.

Bushes and vines abetted the rocks in forming thorny detours for the struggling stranger, and without the direct light of the sun to act as compass, Pamela could no longer be positive of her direction.

She could not scream, for even if a sound could take shape within her parched mouth, who would hear, who would listen??

Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??

An' that could mean trouble with a fella that's workin' for crooks.

Dan could hear Clayton Burnside and Eben Jackson summing up their final reckoning for rental on the oxen.

there he could shave and scrub himself up for the evening.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

By then Hez could see for himself, and so could the others.

A hell of an altitude for a barrel roll, but it could be done.

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.

He could use your clothes for a costume and a heavy veil for a mask.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` Karipo's women then named this place ' Eromonga ' -- manhood -- for just the strongest men could stay here.

Occasionally, for no reason that I could see, they would suddenly alter the angle of their trot.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.