In Sri Lanka Pawnbroking is a lucrative business engaged in by specialized pawnbrokers as well as commercial banks and other finance companies.

Examples in the United Kingdom include those engaged in the regulation of various commercial and service sectors, such as the Water Services Regulation Authority.

Its large commercial fleet engaged in acts of piracy, while wealthy merchants paid for such tributes as public works, monuments, and competitions as well as the games and gladiator fights.

Although not yet in commercial production, many groups around the globe are engaged in research on solid polymer electrolytes involving PEG, with the aim of improving their properties, and in permitting their use in batteries, electro-chromic display systems, and other products in the future.

The two countries are now engaged in a growing commercial relationship, as well as cultural and educational exchanges.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, as Congress considered whether to “ repeal ” Glass-Steagall, commercial banks and their affiliates engaged in activities that commentators later linked to the late-2000s financial crisis.

In 1955, the department was renamed Atomics International and engaged principally in the early development of nuclear technology and nuclear reactors for both commercial and government applications.

Professional anglers are not engaged in commercial fishing, even though they gain an economic reward.

The penalty traditionally imposed by belligerents on neutral carriers engaged in commercial traffic with the enemy consists of confiscation of cargo.

Still, it does retain legacies to its past as it contains commercial establishments engaged in the sex trade, although police cracked down on the soaplands in 2007.

The United States has maintained a naval presence in the Mediterranean since the early 19th century, when U. S. Naval forces first engaged the Barbary Pirates to prevent them from interfering with commercial shipping.

He engaged in marriage negotiations as well as financial and commercial matters.

Petroleum products destined for utilisation by aircraft engaged in commercial flights outside of the customs territory of continental France are exempt from all customs duties and domestic taxes.

Company Freemen must be of good character and engaged in the practice of commercial arbitration ( while many of the older Companies ' links with their original trades have expired, most of the newer Livery Companies maintain close ties with their vocations ).

His great-grandfather, William Harriman, emigrated from England in 1795 and engaged successfully in trading and commercial pursuits.

NAR's membership is composed of residential and commercial real estate brokers, real estate salespeople, immovable property managers, appraisers, counselors, and others engaged in all aspects of the real estate ( immovable property ) industry, where a state license to practice is required.

This is used to describe almost anyone " engaged in an economic activity ", but excludes both employees, who are by their " very nature the opposite of the independent exercise of an economic or commercial activity ", and public services based on " solidarity " for a " social purpose ".

Sogdians and Chinese engaged in extensive commercial activities with each other under Tang rule.

Japanese commercial law is also characterised by a relationship with the bureaucracy that is important in determining how those engaged in commerce conduct business.

It was not until the late nineteenth century that the concept of the “ press ” morphed into a description of individuals and companies engaged in an often competitive commercial media enterprise .</ p >

He also launched a series of exposés and legal actions against tobacco advertising targeted at children — concluding that R. J. Reynolds was engaged in " commercial child abuse " -- which culminated in a Federal Trade Commission case that ended the Joe Camel ads.

Throughout the 1990s, SBC engaged in a large growth initiative, shifting its focus from traditional commercial banking into investment banking, in an effort to match its larger Swiss rival Credit Suisse.

While at a taping session for a Lowes commercial, Lockett engaged in a friendly wrestling match with former amateur rugby player Ace ( Adrian ) Mueller, who was at the time working for Lowes corporate division.

Similar ingratitude was the recompense for his revelations of the Jacobite intentions in 1715, and as he was no more successful in making money out of the British East India Company, nor in certain commercial schemes which engaged his ingenuity during the next few years, he died in a debtor's prison.

Throughout her marriage and during her regency, when she was not conducting affairs of state, Isabella preferred to spend her free time engaged in cultural pursuits.

After exiting office, former prime ministers of Canada have engaged in various pursuits.

While in southern Africa, he engaged in a broad variety of scientific pursuits free from a sense of strong obligations to a larger scientific community.

He left school early and worked as a clerk in a general store in Enfield, Massachusetts, taught school in Boscawen, New Hampshire, engaged in mercantile pursuits in Hanover, New Hampshire, moved to Boston, entered the dry-goods business in New York City, and engaged in banking there.

In earlier life he had been engaged in secular pursuits, whether civil or military is not clear, though the term he uses, " secularis militia ," might possibly imply the latter.

In the early 1970s, the est Foundation became the Werner Erhard Foundation with the aim of " providing financial and organizational support to individuals and groups engaged in charitable and educational pursuits – research, communication, education, and scholarly endeavors in the fields of individual and social transformation and human well-being ".

In 1884 Harris became a prominent citizen of Linwood, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising.

Pacific Railroad Bond, City and County of San Francisco, 1865In 1856, he and Jane moved to San Francisco, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits on a large scale.

He became engaged in agricultural pursuits and was also a cattle dealer.

In the higher regions of the canton the population is mainly engaged in pastoral pursuits and cattle-breeding.

He engaged in agricultural pursuits and was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1865 following the American Civil War.

The transition from the monumental to the purely literary character of the epigram was favoured by the exhaustion of more lofty forms of poetry, the general increase, from the general diffusion of culture, of accomplished writers and tasteful readers, but, above all, by the changed political circumstances of the times, which induced many who would otherwise have engaged in public affairs to addict themselves to literary pursuits.

He returned in 1855, and the following year they moved to San Francisco, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits on a large scale.

Often, neighbouring groups are engaged in aerial pursuits.

It is known that Lorenzetti engaged in artistic pursuits that were thought to have their origins during the Renaissance, such as experimenting with perspective and physiognomy, and studying classical antiquity.

Samuel Allyne Otis ( son of James Otis, Sr., father of Harrison Gray Otis and brother of prominent revolutionary James Otis, Jr. and America's first female playwright Mercy Otis Warren ), a Delegate from Massachusetts ; born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740 ; was graduated from Harvard College in 1759 ; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston ; member of the state house of representatives in 1776 ; member of the Board of War in 1776 ; collector of clothing for the Continental Army in 1777 ; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention ; again a member of the state house of representatives 1784-1787 and elected speaker of the house in 1784 ; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788 ; elected Secretary of the United States Senate on April 8, 1789, and served until his death in Washington, D. C., April 22, 1814 ; interment in Congressional Cemetery.

He opened an office in New York City, and engaged in the practice of medicine, at the same time devoting his leisure to botany and other scientific pursuits.

He was engaged in teaching and in agricultural pursuits for a number of years, and was elected to various local offices.

She also became one of the foremost members of the so-called bluestocking group of women engaged in polite conversation and literary and intellectual pursuits, attending the salon of Elizabeth Montagu, where she also met and became acquainted with Frances Boscawen, Elizabeth Carter, Elizabeth Vesey and Hester Chapone, some of whom were to become lifelong friends.

He claimed that the number of beggars and unschooled children was increasing while politicians were engaged in " egotistical pursuits.

Following his term as ambassador, Ransom retired to his estate, " Verona " and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

He also engaged in agricultural pursuits and served as a member of state house of representatives in 1811 and as secretary of state of Tennessee 1811 – 1815.