6 sentences with “purchasing”

There was also a positive change in the purchasing power of the average person.

After purchasing his freedom and that of his wife and daughter, he proceeded to acquire his own slaves, whom he put to work in the manufacture of cotton gins.

One result of cheaper printing and increased purchasing power was "yellow" journalism, sensationalist accounts of political events that stretched the truth to sell copies.

From 1850 to 1900, the average Frenchman saw his real purchasing power increase by 165%. Comparable increases occurred in the other dynamic, commercial and industrial economies of Western Europe (and, eventually, in the United States).

The years between 1945 and 1975 were described by a French economist as the "trente glorieuses": the thirty glorious years. It was a time when people who worked regularly experienced an enormous and continuous growth in their purchasing power and standard of living.

But the chiefs of the Confederation of United Tribes and the other chiefs grant to the Queen, the exclusive rights of purchasing such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to sell at such prices as may be agreed upon between them and the person appointed by the Queen to purchase from them. Article third In return for the cession of their Sovereignty to the Queen, the people of New Zealand shall be protected by the Queen of England and the rights and privileges of British subjects will be granted to them.