During the first administration of Bienville, the peltry trade of the Mobile district was a lucrative source of revenue.

Traditionally, Bursa was famous for being the largest center of silk trade in the Byzantine and later the Ottoman empires, during the period of the lucrative Silk Road.

The French and English were each seeking to control lucrative Indian Ocean trade routes.

In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a promise, however remote, of gaining the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia.

In the south, lucrative maritime trade routes began from port cities such as Guangzhou.

The Göktürks, under the leadership of Bumin Qaghan ( d. 552 ) and his sons, succeeded the Rouran as the main power in the region and took hold of the lucrative Silk Road trade.

The economy benefited from the lucrative sugar trade introduced during the closing decades of the seventeenth century.

With the dream of building a lucrative overseas colony for Scotland, the Company of Scotland invested in the Darien scheme, an ambitious plan devised by William Paterson to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama in the hope of establishing trade with the Far East.

Within the next century, however, European and Asian economies were slowly becoming integrated through the rise of new global trade routes ; and the early thrust of European political power, commerce, and culture in Asia gave rise to a growing trade in lucrative commodities — a key development in the rise of today's modern world free market economy

Dutch forces first established independent bases in the East ( most significantly Batavia, the heavily fortified headquarters of the Dutch East India Company ) and then between 1640 and 1660 wrestled Malacca, Ceylon, some southern Indian ports, and the lucrative Japan trade from the Portuguese.

The Portuguese, based at Goa and Malacca, had now established a lucrative maritime empire in the Indian Ocean meant to monopolise the spice trade.

The treaty had produced ten years of peace and highly lucrative trade for American merchants, but Jefferson was still hostile.

Radama concluded a treaty in 1817 with the British governor of Mauritius to abolish the lucrative slave trade in return for British military and financial assistance.

This already lucrative trade became even more so when Chinese officials handed Macau's Portuguese traders a monopoly by banning direct trade with Japan in 1547, due to piracy by Chinese and Japanese nationals.

Portuguese and Chinese merchants flocked to Macau, and it quickly became an important regional trading center in Portugal's lucrative trade along three major routes: Macau-Malacca-Goa-Lisbon, Guangzhou-Macau-Nagasaki and Macau-Manila-Mexico.

Afterwards, investment lagged while Lisbon devoted itself to the more lucrative trade with India and the Far East and to the colonization of Brazil.

Russia rewarded Poland with a lucrative five-year trade agreement, the equivalent of 450 million 1948 dollars in credit, 200, 000 tons of grain, heavy machinery, and factories.

Despite Mary's marriage to Philip, England did not benefit from Spain's enormously lucrative trade with the New World.

In the 6th century they joined the lucrative spice trade as well, since battles in other parts of the world were causing trade routes to divert from the dangerous sea routes to the more secure overland routes.

Huff, who received a salary of $109 a week from the loan association from October of 1955 until September of this year, said that his private practice was not lucrative.

The deal is said to be worth £ 80 million over four years, replacing United's deal with AIG as the most lucrative shirt deal in history at the time, but it was later equalled when Standard Chartered Bank agreed a deal with Liverpool FC to pay £ 20 million a year over the same period.

Mail from dead combatants was frequently looted and was used by the new owner or sold for a lucrative price.

Pfeiffer's vision was to move Compaq beyond its main business of manufacturing retail PCs and into the more lucrative business services and solutions that IBM did well at.

In addition, the merging of the stagnant Compaq computer assembly business with HP's lucrative printing and imaging division was criticized for obstructing the profitability of the printing / imaging segment.

Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures was threatened by First National's financial power and its control over the lucrative first run theaters and decided to enter the cinema business as well.

The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal.

At its commencement, the sponsorship by Foster's was the most lucrative sponsorship ever given to an English football club.

This was an extraordinarily lucrative arrangement for any professional musician at that time.

Most California crude oil in the early years was turned into the less lucrative products of fuel oil and asphalt.

To repair his faltering finances, Melville listened to the advice of friends and decided to enter what was for others the lucrative field of lecturing.

At the same time, the press was also printing other, more lucrative texts ( possibly Latin grammars ).

Realizing that an uneducated lawyer was unlikely to build a lucrative practice, Landis enrolled at Cincinnati's YMCA Law School ( now part of the University of Cincinnati ) in 1889.

Milken's task was perhaps made easier by the fact that the top-tier Wall Street investment banks were unwilling to compete with him for fear of jeopardizing their longstanding and lucrative relationships with many of the blue-chip companies who were potentially his targets, although companies such as Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and First Boston later entered the high-yield market.

It was a prestigious and lucrative assignment.

For the Canadian government to copy the American model of railway financing whilst insisting on an all Canadian route, it was implied that the railway's backers would be expected to build hundreds of miles of track across rugged shield terrain ( which had little economic value ) at considerable expense before they could expect to access lucrative farmland in Manitoba and newly-created Northwest Territories.

Roger was to be free to appoint bishops as a right of (" lay investiture "), free to collect Church revenues and forward them to the papacy ( always a lucrative middle position ), and free to sit in judgment on ecclesiastical questions.

The reason for barring Indian ships from entering the wealthy Arabian port cities was to protect and hide the exploitative trade practices of the Somali and Arab merchants in the extremely lucrative ancient Red Sea-Mediterranean Sea commerce.

The trade of slaves in England was made illegal in 1102, although England went on to become very active in the lucrative Atlantic slave trade from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century.

Larry Brown, who was named Super Bowl MVP for his two interceptions, parlayed his performance into a lucrative free agent contract with the Oakland Raiders.

However, even if the authorities try to diversify the economy, this is made difficult because the resource extraction is vastly more lucrative and out-competes other industry.

Organized crime expanded to deal with the lucrative business, and there was widespread corruption among those charged with enforcing unpopular laws.

The economy expanded during the 12th century, based mostly on the lucrative herring-trade, but the 13th century turned into a period of difficulty and saw the temporary collapse of royal authority.

In more recent times one-off and special events have been further expanded beginning in 2009 with further expansion in 2010 to include several now-annual initiatives with the focus on the local market and families rather than the less lucrative enthusiasts ' market which has tailed off since the expansive events beginning with the 1993 Year Of Railways and beyond.

Following the takeover, Manchester United continued to thrive, with the 2005 – 06 season seeing Old Trafford's capacity being expanded and a lucrative new shirt sponsorship deal signed in April with American company AIG ( which had a large stake in a hedge fund company that helped to fund Glazer's takeover of the club ).