6 sentences with 'thriving'
Example sentences and phrases with the word thriving and other words derived from it.
• « There was also a thriving slave trade among all the great civilisations of the ancient world; African slaves were captured and sold in Egypt, Greek slaves to Persia (despite its nominal ban on slavery, it is clear that at least some slavery existed in Persia), nomadic people from the steppes in the Black Sea ports, and so on. »
• « Yes, a thriving relic trade (riddled with forgeries - it was not easy to determine whether a given finger bone was really St Mark's finger bone!) developed in Europe as rival church leaders tried to get the most powerful relic for their church. »
• « The result was a thriving commercial economy in most of the region, although it is important to note that most people remained farmers in the Middle East, as elsewhere in the pre-modern world. »
• « According to the book "The End of History and the Last Man", human rights would be guaranteed by the political system that also provided the legal framework for a thriving capitalist economy. All alternatives had already been tried and failed, after all, from the old order of monarchy and nobility to modern fascism and, from 1991 onwards, Soviet communism. Thus, the old dictatorships would (if they had not already done so) join the fold of American-style democracy and capitalism soon enough. »
• « The town of Jerome was once a thriving mining camp, then a ghost town, and today it is a bustling centre for the arts. My friend's house had been built by the miners in the town's glory days. »
• « At the time, the paper was thriving: it had 210 journalists and seven permanent bureaus in other parts of the world: New York, Paris, Cairo, Rome, Moscow, London and Bonn. »