While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

The Netherlands and Italy were Chile's main European trading partners.

Turkey is by far the main trading partner of the Turkish-occupied area, supplying 55 % of imports and absorbing 48 % of exports.

There is some detail on the sphere's main city, Everyway, which contains a stone pyramid, a set of family-oriented guilds, and various exotic events related to the city's position as an interdimensional trading center.

During the 19th century, palm oil was the main trading commodity.

The longest prison sentence in a Norwegian trial where the main charge was insider trading, was for 8 years ( where 2 of the years are suspended ) when Alain Angelil was convicted in a district court on December 9, 2011.

His vocal backing of these movements further burdened Zambia, since the white regimes were the country's main trading partners.

Macedonia ’ s external trade struggled in 2010 due to the slow recovery from the economic crisis of its main trading partners, particularly EU members.

In 1558 the Portuguese established a small garrison with a Viador ( Viyazoru ), or overseer of a factory ( trading post ) in the Maldives, which they administered from their main colony in Goa.

Pisa began in this way its rise to the role of main port of the Upper Tyrrhenian Sea and became the main trading centre between Tuscany and Corsica, Sardinia and the southern coasts of France and Spain.

Zubara's emerging position as a flourished as a pearling centre and trading port had brought it to the attention of the two main regional powers, Persia and Oman.

This resulted in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria being the main trading center for spices.

The main issues confronting the current government include economic and administrative problems related to San Marino's status as a close financial and trading partner with Italy while at the same time remaining separated from the European Union ( EU ).

Among these, according to the Financial Times, was Spain's rapidly growing trade deficit, which had reached a staggering 10 % of the country's GDP by the summer of 2008, the " loss of competitiveness against its main trading partners " and, also, as a part of the latter, an inflation rate which had been traditionally higher than the one of its European partners, back then especially affected by house price increases of 150 % from 1998 and a growing family indebtedness ( 115 %) chiefly related to the Spanish Real Estate boom and rocketing oil prices.

The private sector's main areas of activity are agriculture and trading, with most private industrial investment predating 1980.

This trading post was his main source of income.

The main entities purchasing the bonds or stock include pension funds, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and less commonly wealthy individuals and investment banks trading on their own behalf.

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

The city's role as main Austrian trading port and shipbuilding centre was later emphasized with the foundation of the merchant shipping line Austrian Lloyd in 1836, whose headquarters stood at the corner of the Piazza Grande and Sanità.

The town's three main trading streets of High Street, West Street and South Street are complemented by a small open-air shopping centre, St Martin's Walk, which is adjacent to the town's main car park and easily accessed from the High Street.

Germany has historically been the main trading partner of Austria, making it vulnerable to rapid changes in the German economy.

Cocktails will be served from 6 to 7 p.m., with dinner at 7 and entertainment in the main dining room immediately following.

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room consisting of half the ground floor which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family.

The main room served as a living room, dining room and bedroom.

The main body of GC & CS, including its Naval, Military and Air Sections, was on the ground floor of the mansion, together with a telephone exchange, a teleprinter room, a kitchen and a dining room.

The main meeting room of the Council

The relational model solved this by splitting the data into a series of normalized tables ( or relations ), with optional elements being moved out of the main table to where they would take up room only if needed.

Greek Revival was added to the design repertory the main exponents being William Wilkins and Robert Smirke, their work dominates late Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance ; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.

Individual galleries are located along the periphery, allowing visitors to return after viewing each exhibit to the spacious main room.

Close stands the House of Frescoes, and the fresco in the main room represented a priestess or goddess with ears of corn in her hand.

When the first pubs were built, the main room was the public room with a large serving bar copied from the gin houses, the idea being to serve the maximum number of people in the shortest possible time.

The tubes in Futurama are also used to depict the endless confusion of bureaucracy: an immense network of pneumatic tubes connects all offices in New New York City to the " Central Bureaucracy ", with all the capsules being deposited directly into a huge pile in the main filing room, with no sorting or organization.

In a letter to André Breton, he wrote of The Human Condition that it was irrelevant if the scene behind the easel differed from what was depicted upon it, " but the main thing was to eliminate the difference between a view seen from outside and from inside a room.

The main selling points were that it had room for four adults and luggage in a compact, light and durable shell ; it was fast ( when introduced ); and it was durable.

The story follows the main events of Scrooge's life between 1877 and 1947, including almost all references found in Carl Barks stories about Scrooge's life until 1947 but leaving some room for Rosa and other creators to add more details later.

The left and right corridors of the entrance gate are connected to the main room.

The dining room, or triclinium, was situated in the centre of the main building, and was highly decorated with a pair of large mosaics on the floor dating to the mid-4th century.

On Intercom Systems that use a speaker in a room as both a speaker and a Mic will often use VOX on the main console to switch the audio direction when a conversation is going on.

Both the measuring instrument and the object being measured should be at room temperature for an accurate measurement ; dirt, abuse, and operator skill are the main sources of error.

* In later medieval Europe, the main room of a castle or manor house was the great hall.

In a Roman villa, the kitchen was typically integrated into the main building as a separate room, set apart for practical reasons of smoke and sociological reasons of the kitchen being operated by slaves.

In Japanese homes, the kitchen started to become a separate room within the main building at that time.