There are a great number and variety of private commercial schools, trade schools and technical schools.

Economic activity is strongly linked to the United States, with which American Samoa conducts the great bulk of its foreign trade.

They are still great trade carriers, and visit very distant districts.

The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success ; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

It is likely for instance that within a decade, a great deal of trade between West Africa and Southern Africa will be moving on the network through Yaoundé.

However, prior to the abolition of slavery, Cuba gained great prosperity from its sugar trade.

Due to the abundance of sunshine, year-round tropical temperatures moderated by the almost constant trade winds, and the great variety of scenic destinations to visit, during the second half of the 20th century on into the 21st, the Caribbean Sea became a popular place for tourism.

At the beginning of the First Punic War, Rome had virtually no experience in naval warfare, whereas Carthage had a great deal of experience on the seas thanks to its centuries of sea-based trade.

The ongoing dispute has not prevented the two countries from enjoying close trade links and investment levels ( especially from Greece ), but it has generated a great deal of political and academic debate on both sides.

The expansion of trade occurs after the Portuguese reach this region in 1446, bringing great wealth to several local slave trading tribes.

King Agadja ( 1708 – 1740 ) attempted to end the slave trade by keeping the slaves on plantations producing palm oil, but the European profits on slaves and Dahomey's dependency on firearms were too great.

As West European economic growth accelerated during the Industrial Revolution, sea trade and colonialism which had begun in the second half of the 18th century, Russia began to lag ever farther behind, creating new problems for the empire as a great power.

They had initially selected the land near the Wabash River for its isolation and opportunity for expansion, but the Harmonites were now a great distance from the eastern markets and trade in this location wasn't to their liking.

This is a great deficiency as trade theory, for intermediate goods occupy the major part of the world international trade.

The city was an important port in the trade from Mesopotamia to India and provided port facilities for the great city of Susa, further up the Tigris River.

Lönnrot made his eighth field trip to the Russian border town of Lapukka where the great singer Arhippa Perttunen had learned his trade.

Once in an area of great wealth, the demise of the mediaeval wool trade was indirectly the saving of the village, ( as we know it today ), since the locals were unable to afford the expense of upgrading their houses with the latest architectural fashions.

Since the early Middle Ages, the trade in furs was of great economic importance for northern and eastern European nations with large native populations of fur-bearing mustelids, and was a major economic impetus behind Russian expansion into Siberia and French and English expansion in North America.

The Third Seven-Year Plan gave a great deal of attention to developing foreign trade and joint ventures, the first time a plan has addressed these issues.

Roads were also made within his domain between castle towns to not only facilitate trade, but also to move armies great distances in short timespans.

In his first official trade as GM, he shocked Giants fans by trading Matt Williams to Cleveland for what newspapers referred to as a ' bunch of spare parts ', with the negative reaction being great enough for him to have to publicly explain: " I didn't get to this point by being an idiot ...

During this period, there was a great drop in trade and other economic indicators.

The Turkmen Government claims to have placed great emphasis on foreign economic relations and foreign trade and an " open door " trade policy, as declared by the President.

Helsinki has an optimal location for great circle routes between Western Europe and the Far East.

Helsinki has an optimal location for great circle airline traffic routes between Western Europe and the Far East.

* Azimuthal or Gnomonic map projections are often used in planning air routes due to their ability to represent great circles as straight lines.

Airline routes between San Francisco and Tokyo following the most direct great circle ( top ), but following the jet stream ( bottom ) when heading eastwards

* Great Circle Mapper Interactive tool for plotting great circle routes.

Positioned on the great trade routes between Africa, Europe, and the New World, the archipelago prospered from the transatlantic slave trade, in the 16th century.

Since that time, they had operated the trans-Saharan caravan trade connecting the great cities on the southern edge of the Sahara via five desert trade routes to the northern ( Mediterranean ) coast of Africa.

The route is preferable to other routes due to the lack of underpasses and the great distances involved.

Internationally, Ireland is the gateway to the Atlantic ; Ireland is the last outpost of Europe towards the West ; Ireland is the point upon which great trade routes between East and West converge ; her independence is demanded by the Freedom of the Seas ; her great harbours must be open to all nations, instead of being the monopoly of England.

As the shipping routes from the Atlantic Ocean to Murmansk and the ports of the White Sea pass through the Barents Sea, the waters near Bear Island were of great strategic importance in the Second World War as well as the Cold War.

Todos os Santos Bay has also been traditionally the venue for rowing contests at the Enseada dos Tainheiros, in Salvador and now the bay is included in the routes of the great international regattas, such as the Ralley Les Iles du Soleil, regatta Hong Kong Challenge and the Expo 98 Round the World Rally, which consider the bay an important stop along the route.

For this reason it is not as well represented in the Museum, although there are a small number of great 15th-century masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Mantegna, Antonello da Messina and Botticelli, which entered the collection by different routes.

After the Napoleonic Wars there was great concern about the security of coastal shipping routes between Southampton and London, and a number of canal schemes were put forward.

It stood at the intersection of two great all-water routes: one extending from New York Harbor, up the Hudson River, to Albany and, beyond it, the Port of Buffalo ; the other constituted by the Great Lakes, which could theoretically take boaters in any direction they wished to go ( north to Canada, west to Michigan or Wisconsin, south to Toledo and Cleveland, or east to the Atlantic Ocean ).

Some ancient routes, such as Roman roads, travel for great distances and have a single modern number for the majority of their length ( e. g. the A5 for the Roman road Watling Street ).

* Postal routes are alternate geographical based study areas that provide great variety due to the many places and services available along a route.

The airline also stated that an event of a water landing on the regional airline routes was almost zero, as there is no operation over great bodies of water except for the Great Lakes and that in all circumstances, the airline always remains within from land, as stipulated in the law, which removes the obligation from carrying any flotation devices.

Another theory ( largely discredited today ), developed by Joseph Bédier, posited that the early chansons were recent creations, not earlier than the year 1000, developed by singers who, emulating the songs of " saints lives " sung before churches ( and collaborating with the church clerics ), created epic stories based on the heroes whose shrines and tombs dotted the great pilgrimage routes, as a way of drawing pilgrims to these churches.

This blocked the valley's natural outlet and the routes to Samarkand and Bukhara, but none of these borders was of any great significance so long as Soviet rule lasted.

What he lacked in great speed or physical presence, he made up for by running perfectly choreographed pass routes that outsmarted most American Football League defensive backs.

Moores was a great believer in the creation of opportunity for all, which embodies the ethos of LJMU in providing educational routes for people of all ages and from all backgrounds.

MOL also made great efforts to reorganize operations on the Pacific routes, dissolving the consortium of six Japanese companies.

Neuss grew during the Middle Ages because of its prime location on several routes, by the crossing of the great Rhine valley, and with its harbour and ferry.