9 sentences with 'markets'
Example sentences and phrases with the word markets and other words derived from it.
• « In turn, the simple lack of markets meant that there was no incentive to grow more than necessary, and the nobility sought to become richer and more powerful not by worrying about agricultural productivity (let alone trade), but by raiding each other's lands. »
• « Silk and spices were worth far more than their weight in gold, and their trade created the basis for the first financial markets and banks. »
• « Empires such as the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals saw campaigns focused on building and protecting roads, caravanserais and markets. Unlike most European societies, traders were treated with respect and honour. »
• « Europeans broke into these markets primarily by securing control of goods returning to Europe rather than by seizing control of intra-Asian or African trade routes, although they sought to dominate those routes when they could, and Europeans were able to seize at least some territories directly in the process. »
• « Initially, France tried to keep British cloth out of its own markets, but in 1786 the two kingdoms negotiated the Treaty of Eden, which allowed the importation of British manufactured goods. »
• « The result was a flood of British cloth into French markets, forcing French manufacturers to apply industrial technology in their own workshops. »
• « It soon became economically viable to ship grain from the United States or Russia across the oceans to reach European markets using the fast steamships. »
• « At the same time, the people who owned property, "the bourgeoisie", came under pressure. In the climate of the new capitalism, of unregulated markets and fierce competition, it was terribly easy to fall behind and go out of business. Therefore, the former members of the bourgeoisie lost out and became proletarians themselves. »
• « The result was an economy that was often synonymous with black markets, gigantic and powerful organised crime syndicates, and the rise of a small number of "oligarchs" to stratospheric levels of wealth and power. »