No one who has studied the radical Right can suppose that words are their sole staple in trade.

During the 16th century, the Spice trade was dominated by the Portuguese who used Lisbon as a staple port.

However, after 1591 the Portuguese used an international syndicate of the German Fuggers and Welsers, and Spanish and Italian firms, that used Hamburg as its northern staple port to distribute their goods, thereby cutting Dutch merchants out of the trade.

Romesh Chunder Dutt argued as early as 1900, and present-day scholars such as Amartya Sen agree, that some historic famines were a product of both uneven rainfall and British economic and administrative policies, which since 1857 had led to the seizure and conversion of local farmland to foreign-owned plantations, restrictions on internal trade, heavy taxation of Indian citizens to support British expeditions in Afghanistan ( see The Second Anglo-Afghan War ), inflationary measures that increased the price of food, and substantial exports of staple crops from India to Britain.

Silk was in great demand, and became a staple of pre-industrial international trade.

Marchese ( 1989 ) notes the fact that many of these peoples were recruited as “ crew ” by European seafarers ; “ the homonymy with crew is obvious, and is at least one source of the confusion among Europeans that there was a Kru / crew tribe ” Andrew Dalby noted the historical importance of the Kru languages for their position at the crossroads of African-European interaction and wrote that “ Kru and associated languages were among the first to be encountered by European voyagers on what was then known as the Pepper Coast, a center of the production and export of Guinea and melegueta pepper ; a once staple African seaborne trade ”.

Thus by the opening of the thirteenth century, it was already significant in trade with the continent of Europe and ranked as a port of the Hanseatic League It was one of the official " staple towns " of England, authorized to carry on the import and export trade.

The high-tech defense industry is now the main non-health-care staple of the Johnstown economy, with the region pulling in well over $ 100M annually in Federal government contracts, punctuated by one of the premier defense trade shows in the U. S., the annual Showcase For Commerce.

While it remained a local market town, it did a brisk trade providing travellers with the staple bread, ale and accommodation, maintaining trading links as far afield as Bristol.

Among other things, Heke objected to the relocation of the capital to Auckland ; moreover the Governor in Council impose a custom tariff on staple articles of trade that resulted in a dramatic fall in the number of whaling ships that visited Kororareka ( over 20 whaling ships could be in the bay at any time ); a reduction in the number of visiting ships caused a serious loss of revenue to the Ngāpuhi.

For instance, Braşov was granted a staple right in 1369 with respect to the trade in cloth from Poland or Germany.

In the past, the staple trade was the export of sand, which, being highly charged with carbonate of lime, was much used for manure.

Monitor lizards have become a staple in the reptile pet trade.

As increasing numbers of staple foodstuffs became available in cans and other less-perishable packaging, the trade expanded its province.

) In Central Canada, the main staple was fur, and the fur trade dominated the economy for many years.

However, the importance of fur as a staple product also resulted in the northern half of the continent remaining dependent on Britain for trade and thus essentially British for so much of its history.

With economic development and free trade, many countries have shifted away from low-nutrient density staple foods to higher nutrient density staple foods.

In order for a settlement to become a city, a royal charter granting market right was required, and foreign trade required royally chartered staple port rights.

The manufacture of nails was the staple trade in the town and many mills were used for slitting and iron production.

Ivory had been a staple trade item from the coast of East Africa since before the Christian era.

Tule sprouts were gathered in the spring and acorns, a staple of California Natives, were obtained through trade, due to the scarcity of oak trees in the area.

The emperor also granted trade privileges like the staple right which forced traveling merchants to offer their goods in the town for three days.

Because nearly every family made bread for their own consumption, wheat was the main staple of the average diet in Britain.

* Attiéké, a variety of couscous that is a staple food in Côte d ' Ivoire and is also known to surrounding areas of West Africa, made from grated cassava.

Two different hypothetical types of goods with upward-sloping demand curves are Giffen goods ( an inferior but staple good ) and Veblen goods ( goods made more fashionable by a higher price ).

In addition, one of the Antiguan staple foods, fungee ( FOON-ji ), is a cooked paste made of cornmeal and water.

In Orissa the tribal and Western hilly regions ragi or ( ମ ା ଣ ୍ ଡ ି ଆ ) Mandiaa is a staple food. The porridge and Pithas made up of ragi are more popular among village folk.

Pease pudding was a high-protein low-cost staple of the diet and, made from easily stored dried peas, was an ideal form of food for sailors, particularly boiled in accompaniment with salt pork which is the origin of pea ( and ham ) soup.

A staple of the London society calendar since the 1800s, in 1914, its importance was such that over 38, 000 people attended the two days ' play, and in 1910 the match made national headlines.

The Hawaiian staple food called poi, made of mashed taro root, is easily substituted or augmented with mashed breadfruit.

Tapioca was used by the first inhabitants of the West Indies as a staple food from which they made main dishes such as pepper pot and also used it to make alcohol.

That discussion hook has made the story a staple in English classes in American schools, especially since Stockton was careful never to hint at what he thought the ending would be ( according to Hiram Collins Haydn in The Thesaurus of Book Digests, ISBN 0-517-00122-5 ).

By the early 18th century, the table sauce had made it to the Malay states ( present day Malaysia and Singapore ), where it was discovered by British explorers, and by 1740, it had become a British staple.

Dordrecht was made even more important when it was given staple right in 1299.

** Rubaboo is made from dried maize and peas with animal fat, and was a staple food of the Voyageurs.

These two, under various names, are staple foods over a wide part of the African continent, e. g., pap in South Africa, sadza in Zimbabwe, nshima in Zambia, tuwo or ogi in Nigeria, etc., though some of these may also be made from sorghum.

** A porridge made from pearl millet is the staple food in Niger and surrounding regions of the Sahel.

Bannock made from oats, introduced by the French in the 16th century, became a staple.

The video for " Girls Just Want to Have Fun " made Lauper an MTV staple.

On 9 February 1363 the town was made a staple port.

These restrictive practices had a number of consequences: they made the taking of silk something of a professional risk, because appointment abolished at a stroke some of the staple work of the junior barrister ; they made the use of leading Counsel more expensive, and therefore ensured that they were retained only in more important cases, and they protected the work of the junior bar, which could not be excluded by the retention of leading Counsel.

The noodle is a type of staple food made from some type of unleavened dough which is rolled flat and cut into one of a variety of shapes.

Noodles, often made from wheat dough, became a staple food for people of the Han Dynasty ( 206 BCE-220 CE ).

Since the San Gabriel Valley area was home to large numbers of oak trees such as coast live oak and interior live oak, a staple of the Tongva diet was an acorn mush made by boiling acorn flour.

Abundant oaks in the Valley, such as Coast Live Oak and Interior Live Oak provided a staple of the Tongva diet: acorn mush made of boiled acorn flour.