6 sentences with “providing”

Richelieu made himself superintendent of trade and navigation, recognising the growing importance of trade in providing royal revenue.

In practice, women were very valuable to the Greek economy, providing almost all domestic labour and also contributing to agriculture and trade.

Foreign trade was in the service of providing luxury goods to this elite social class, a class that was never politically united but shared a common culture of warrior kings and their armed retinues.

It was one of the greatest works of science of all time: its importance lay not only in being "correct", but in providing a comprehensive system that could replace the work of ancient authors such as Aristotle.

Europe was largely a barter economy, while the Muslim world was a market economy based on currency, with Sharia law providing a sophisticated legal framework for commercial transactions. Especially when Byzantium declined, Muslim kingdoms remained at the forefront of scholarship, trade and military power.

In essence, the system of thémas (or themata, administrative divisions of the Byzantine Empire) was a return to the old form of military conscription that had been so successful during the days of the Roman Republic: free citizens providing their own arms, thus relieving some of the financial burden on the state. At their peak, the thémas supported an army of 300,000 men (comparable to the Roman army under Augustus), with the financial burden evenly distributed throughout the empire.