Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly injected themselves into the public debate about contentious scientific issues, positioning themselves as skeptics, their views gaining traction because the media gives them equal time out of a sense of fairness.

Merchants who profited from the American trade began investing in leather, textiles, iron, coal, sugar, rope, sailcloth, glassworks, breweries, and soapworks, setting the foundations for the city's emergence as a leading industrial centre after 1815.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway named Singer in their book, Merchants of Doubt, as one of three contrarian physicists — along with Fred Seitz and Bill Nierenberg — who regularly position themselves as skeptics, with their views being given equal time by the media.

* Merchants in Britain build structures outside the forts of Hadrian's Wall and offer goods and services ( including brothels ) to Roman soldiers, who receive salaries in a region that otherwise has virtually no ready money.

Merchants who had previously regarded the buccaneers as a defense against Spain now saw them as a threat to commerce, and colonial authorities grew hostile.

Merchants who had made a fortune ordered new houses built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around various cities and towns ( for defense and transport purposes ), houses with ornamented facades that benefited their new status.

• In 1974, Mayer, who in the off-season donned the nickname Blazers, earned their second trip to the state classic in as many years, but they bowed out in the opening round to the Winona Merchants 5-2 in St.

In The Fear Merchants episode, discrimination against Chinese immigrants who attempt to assimilate in American society is addressed.

The City Slickers developed from the Feather Merchants, a band led by vocalist-clarinetist Del Porter, who took a back seat to Jones during the embryonic years of the group.

Scholars specializing in the study of the history and subculture of Judaism in premodern China ( Sino-Judaica ) have noted this work has surprising similarities with the liturgy of the Kaifeng Jews, descendants of Persian Merchants who settled in the Middle Kingdom during the early Song Dynasty.

Outraged at losses due to theft and delay at London's riverside wharves, Milligan headed a group of powerful businessmen, including the chairman of the West India Merchants of London, George Hibbert, who promoted the creation of a wet dock circled by a high wall.

John Dryden wrote a play, entitled " Amboyna or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English Merchants ," apparently at the behest of his patron, who had been one of the chief negotiators of the Secret treaty of Dover that caused England's entry into that war.

This exodus was led by the On Leong Merchants Association who, in 1912, had a building constructed along Cermak Avenue ( then 22nd Street ) that could house 15 stores, 30 apartments and the Association's headquarters.

1939-Rona is founded in September as " Les Marchands en Quincaillerie " ( The Merchants of Hardware ), an alliance of independent Montreal-area hardware retailers who sought the buying power to bypass wholesalers and deal directly with manufacturers.

* Book XI: Concerning the Sick and the Dead and Merchants who Come from Beyond

** Title III: Concerning Merchants who Come from Beyond Seas

Négociants, who are also called Wine Merchants / Traders, were the dominant force in the wine trade until the last 25 years for various reasons:

Merchants who accept credit cards may receive a chargeback for the transaction and lose money as a result.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway reach a similar conclusion in Merchants of Doubt ( 2010 ), where they identified a few contrarian scientists associated with conservative think-tanks who fought the scientific consensus and spread confusion and doubt about global warming.

Buried in the Churchyard at Church Knowle are the two brothers who brought the first steam locomotive ( Primus ) to Purbeck in 1866-The Pike Brothers-John William and William Joseph Pike ( Purbeck Ball Clay Merchants ).

Completed in 1905 and renovated a century later, the circle was designed by William P. Eno – a businessman who pioneered many early innovations in road safety and traffic control – as part of Frederick Law Olmsted's vision for Central Park, which included a " Grand Circle " at the Merchants ' Gate, its most important Eighth Avenue entrance.

: It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely, by land or by water, saving his allegiance to us, unless it be in time of war, for some short space, for the common good of the kingdom: excepting prisoners and outlaws, according to the laws of the land, and of the people of the nation at war against us, and Merchants who shall be treated as it is said above.

Currency Central was headed by a board of nine, the judge, who was chairman, one representative of Faroe Fish Export, one representative of the Faroese Merchants ' Union, one representative of the bank Føroya Banki, one representative of the savings bank Føroya Sparikassi and four representatives of the Løgting.

Merchants often bought wool and flax from farmers and employed newly arrived immigrants, who had been textile workers in Ireland and Germany, to work in their homes spinning the materials into yarn and cloth.

Merchants at the port of Wilmington had trading ties with the British.

In March 1965, he had three novels on the British paperback bestseller list – Where Love Has Gone at No. 1, The Carpetbaggers at No. 3 and The Dream Merchants in the sixth spot.

… I am a Kentish man, born in a town called Gillingham, two English miles from Rochester, one mile from Chatham, where the King's ships do lie: from the age of twelve years old, I was brought up in Limehouse near London, being Apprentice twelve years to Master Nicholas Diggins ; and myself have served for Master and Pilot in her Majesty's ships ; and about eleven or twelve years have served the Worshipfull Company of the Barbary Merchants, until the Indish traffic from Holland began, in which Indish traffic I was desirous to make a little experience of the small knowledge which God had given me.

Merchants that had gained a fortune ordered a new house built along one of the many new canals that were dug out in and around many cities ( for defense and transport purposes ), a house with an ornamented façade that befitted their new status.

By 1850 the surrounding area had become a centre for mercantile activity, with the Merchants House moving to the square in 1877, and the square itself, which had been developed into a private garden for the surrounding townhouses, became an established public space, after frequent disturbances and pulling down of railings by a disgruntled mob.

Merchants could not compete with the commissary's prices or quality ; for example, it boasted that the meat it sold had been refrigerated every moment from the Chicago slaughterhouse to the moment it was passed to the consumer.

Merchants wrote them in their books of credit ; fishermen used it in religious rituals by marking them in the door of Catholic chapels near hills or beaches ; in the table of their town ’ s first church during marriage ; and also had magical significance, such as the São Selimão sigla, that could be used as a protecting symbol and not as family mark.

Merchants also had a guild, but many merchants did not belong to it, and it would be run by a small group of the most powerful merchants.

After regaining his health in California, he joined the Merchants Shipbuilding Corporation that November, a firm in which his brother Averell had an interest.

Merchants and boyars of Novgorod had exploited the fur resources “ beyond the portage ”, a watershed at the White Lake that represents the door to the entire northwestern part of Eurasia, from as early as the tenth century.

A Guild of Merchants was founded in Bristol by the 13th century, and swiftly became active in civic life ; by the 15th century it had become synonymous with the town's government.

In early 2008, a new Locksmith was opened in place of Unwins Wine Merchants, which had previously gone out of business.

Although World War I had been over for sixteen years, there were revived reports that America's leading munition companies had effectively influenced the United States into that conflict, which killed 53, 000 Americans, hence the companies ' nickname " Merchants of Death.

Merchants had a special status in the system as did Jews.

Merchants in Chinatown had suffered a dramatic decline in business in the months immediately following the earthquake and feared that if the freeway was not reopened they would not recover.

It is on record that the game of Football was introduced into the Gold Coast towards the close of the 19th century by Merchants from Europe, who had then invaded the coastal areas and built forts and castles to enhance their trading activities either in merchandise or human cargo.

The true power had shifted to the side of the Merchants.