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In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
He was -- as he told himself in the vernacular of a trade no longer his own -- riding the dark train out.
Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.
Though merely clear glass, it was a distinctive trade mark for an aspiring actor who hoped to imprint himself upon the memories of producers.
Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.
J. T. Shotwell was appalled by such spurious history as that which attributed the fall of the Carolingian empire to the woolen trade, and he urged Adams to `` transform his essay into a real history, embodying not merely those facts which fit into his theory, but also the modifications and exceptions ''.
`` I had natural sock '', he says, ' as a storyteller and was precociously good at description, dialogue, and most of the other staples of the fiction-writer's trade but I was bugged by a mammoth complex of thoughts and feelings that prevented me from doing more than just diddling the surface of sustained fiction-writing ''.
Whatever we felt about the redcoats, we respected them in terms of their trade, which was killing ; ;
It embraced determining when to purchase and when to trade vehicles, who was to drive, when and where repairs were to be made, where gasoline and automobile services were to be obtained and other allied matters.
Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.
On April 25, the White House reported that a total embargo of remaining U.S. trade with Cuba was being considered.
Thus, a finding of conspiracy to restrain trade or attempt to monopolize was excluded from the Court's decision.
He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.
There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).
trade was based on freedom of contract, and money was lent and borrowed on contractual terms ; ;
trade was just beginning to expand ; ;
The route which he had traveled and which he believed might develop into a trade route was followed by his settlers earlier than he might have expected.
As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.
The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

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This listing was removed from CITES in June 2010 by the South African government and South African abalone is no longer subject to CITES trade controls.
Appendix II, about 21, 000 species, are species that are not necessarily threatened with extinction, but may become so unless trade in specimens of such species is subject to strict regulation in order to avoid utilization incompatible with the survival of the species in the wild.
Article 11 protects the right to freedom of assembly and association, including the right to form trade unions, subject to certain restrictions that are " in accordance with law " and " necessary in a democratic society ".
In 1788, 34 years after he had retired from the slave trade, Newton broke a long silence on the subject with the publication of a forceful pamphlet " Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade ", in which he described the horrific conditions of the slave ships during the Middle Passage, and apologized for " a confession, which ... comes too late ...
However, it is thought that the eggs may have been over-harvested, and it may have been subject to depredations by the feather trade in its breeding area as well.
Technology and software jobs were supposed to be the replacement for factory and agriculture jobs lost to cheaper foreign labor, but if those are subject to free trade losses, then the nature of the next generation of replacement careers is not clear at this point.
The precise language by which a trade secret is defined varies by jurisdiction ( as do the particular types of information that are subject to trade secret protection ).
However, there are three factors that, although subject to differing interpretations, are common to all such definitions: a trade secret is information that:
Thus if a trade secret has been acquired via industrial espionage, its acquirer will probably be subject to legal liability for acquiring it improperly.
The TRO is granted to prevent the adversary from acting to frustrate the purpose of the action, for example, by wasting or hiding assets ( as often occurs in divorce ) or disclosing a trade secret that had been the subject of a non-disclosure agreement.
Despite its establishment within his kingdom, Afonso believed that the slave trade should be subject to Kongo law.
His first priority was an effective navy, including steam frigates, and in the second place a standing army of adequate size ; and as further preparation for emergency " great permanent roads ," " a certain encouragement " to manufactures, and a system of internal taxation which would not be subject like customs duties to collapse by a war-time shrinkage of maritime trade.
The treaty stipulated that trade in the treaty ports should be subject to fixed tariffs, which were to be agreed upon between the British and the Qing governments ( Article X ).
Although the American treaty of 1844 explicitly banned Americans from selling opium, the trade continued as both the British and American merchants were only subject to the legal control of their consuls.
The Republic had to set up all necessities of life, ranging from ' postage stamps, army badges, and train tickets ' whilst subject to Dutch trade blockades.
" Article 153 itself expressly forbids particular forms of discrimination ; clause 5 states that " All persons of whatever race in the same grade in the service of the Federation shall, subject to the terms and conditions of their employment, be treated impartially ," while clause 9 states: " Nothing in this Article shall empower Parliament to restrict business or trade solely for the purpose of reservations for Malays.
Sugar was not included in the 1992 MacSherry reform, or in the 1999 Agenda 2000 decisions ; sugar was also subject to a phase-in ( to 2009 ) under the Everything But Arms trade deal giving market access to least developed countries.
Most economists, including Nobel prize winners Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman, believe that free trade helps workers in developing countries, even though they are not subject to the stringent health and labour standards of developed countries.
The shop-closing law was the subject of controversy in recent years, as larger stores ( and many of their customers ) would prefer to have fewer restrictions on their hours of operation, while trade unions, small shop owners and the church are opposed to a further loosening of the rules.
He writes that children after the age of 14 should be given a choice to choose and specialize in subjects they have an interest in, whether it was reading, manual skills, literature, preaching, medicine, geometry, trade and commerce, craftsmanship, or any other subject or profession they would be interested in pursuing for a future career.
* Denmark: On 16 March 1792 King Christian VII issued a decree forbidding any Danish subject from taking part in the trade after 1 January 1803 – Denmark thus became the first country to ban the trade ;
Given the variety of approaches, Economic Geography has taken to many different subject matters, including: the location of industries, economies of agglomeration ( also known as " linkages "), transportation, international trade, economic development, real estate, gentrification, ethnic economies, gendered economies, core-periphery theory, the economics of urban form, the relationship between the environment and the economy ( tying into a long history of geographers studying culture-environment interaction ), and globalization.

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