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Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's president, calls it a "hobby" business for rich girls that threatens the livelihood of poor shopkeepers.

Adam Smith, who described Britain as a nation of shopkeepers, had a keen sense of what could be expected of the middle class.

When nearby shopkeepers rushed over, the children were standing on the court amid a cloud of dust.

However, the submission of the shopkeepers encouraged Chiang Kai-shek and permitted him to turn his panic into madness.

Especially in a time of economic recession, such free-spending visitors bring shopkeepers flocking in droves.

Shopkeepers are beginning to feel the pinch because no one has a lot of money to spend these days.

And avoid at all costs the suspicion of an American accent, or in spite of the good nature of all good junk shopkeepers, you will be for it.

You can almost hear the clatter of horses' hoofs on the narrow streets, the cries of the children and the laughter of the shopkeepers.

NAPOLEON was wrong when he dismissed the British as a nation of shopkeepers (and hence unfit to defeat France in war).

Shopkeepers, restaurateurs and local businessmen are up in arms.

Restaurant owners, barbers and shopkeepers along Beijing's streets were all given a red armband and everybody is wearing them with pride.

Yet between them the village shopkeepers and the yuppie shoppers are changing the economies of both their home countries and the globe.

It was time for the world to jettison the stereotype of Indians in Africa as shopkeepers out to make a quick profit.

Shopkeepers brought us water and a small bucket filled with eat crab special tools - small hammer.

As huge as their companies eventually became, they were all essentially mechanics and shopkeepers at first.

It was a trade handed down from father to son, and middlemen and shopkeepers made the money.

Shopkeepers say extortion has by no means disappeared, and that much goes unreported.

Hundreds of rioters lobbed petrol bombs and more at the police, torched vehicles, smashed shops and taunted shopkeepers as they robbed them.

Attacks by black South Africans on Somali shopkeepers and hostility to Zimbabwean immigrants both appear to be rising.

In north London, most shopkeepers interviewed said they believed the new rules would be counterproductive.

Some foreigners, unused to haggling, grumble that Sanya's taxi drivers and shopkeepers are out to fleece them.

Shopkeepers setting up fake Apple stores are the latest headache for a technology company that has a history of dealing with imposters.

He also promised that small shopkeepers would be able to buy from Reliance on a wholesale basis, and so benefit from its supply chain.

Shopkeepers responded by ransacking buildings and setting fire to the headquarters of the Burkinabe governing party.

British Legion veterans, shopkeepers and residents are expected to line Wootton Bassett's streets to pay their respects to Pte Hayes.

Would-be shopkeepers set up a website on Zlio and pick goods to display on it from a list of participating merchants.

The Discount Law lived on beyond the war years because many consumers saw a need to protect small shopkeepers from large retail chains.

They suspected that most of the counterfeit notes had been passed of on shopkeepers .

The shopkeepers loathe them because, as the manager of Fashionable Male, a clothes shop, puts it, they lack a "shopping agenda" .

Some shopkeepers brought us some notes like this.

Shopkeepers who lost years of investment are plotting how to get their businesses running again.

In the 1990s opposition from traders and local shopkeepers was enough to convince politicians.

The comprador became a synonym for wealth and was a lordly figure on whom petty shopkeepers looked with awe.

This outfit does not endear me to shopkeepers.

The shopkeepers are complaining that business has been reduced to a fraction of what it was before the war.

Shopkeepers handed out bottles of mineral water to the protesters, and civilians distributed food periodically.

Students grow uneasy, shopkeepers contribute voluntarily to Communist war funds. Boys and girls flee to the Communist areas.

There are skateboards, bicycles, shopkeepers are also set to the elections on January 1, Pode the streets of the heart.

Customers include individuals and shopkeepers, many ordering jewellery, gifts and gadgets to sell in their stores.

The potential customers are most numerous among the "little men" , that is, small shopkeepers and owners of one-man business.

Part of his salary was attached by shopkeepers to whom he owed money.

In this world, shopkeepers are all witches and wizards and they sell things used for magic.

In South Ozone Park, where a bodega owner was shot in the face during a robbery on Monday , shopkeepers these days assume the worst.

In the past shopkeepers would not install systems unless shoppers had electronic cash.

In Britain, that nation of shopkeepers, the young take to the streets to smash windows and steal trainers and television sets.

City officials said authorities and shopkeepers would discuss the issue at a meeting Thursday.

The gun battle spread to the local market, where some shopkeepers were forced to barricade themselves into their shops.

But many shopkeepers remained angry over the handling of the crisis.

Britain is no longer a nation of shopkeepers.

Some shopkeepers are genuinely afraid of a ban on tobacco displays.

Small shopkeepers carried on a long agitation against the big department stores.

That would make shopkeepers less likely to sell fags to people under age.

Japanese toilet seats are still heated (some little luxuries you can't do without) and shopkeepers still run to serve their customers.

A party boss in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, has promised to defend small shopkeepers by torching Walmart stores.

And you'll have to watch the seagulls-- not to mention stroppy shopkeepers!

Apple, Inc. must now contend with shopkeepers setting up fake stores posing as genuine Apple retail locations abroad.

Now shopkeepers fear being lumbered with shelves of unwanted tunnel-tattered products, as Israel's neater goods pour in.

Many shopkeepers guaranteed satisfaction to customers.

When the 18th century economist Adam Smith described Britain as a "nation of shopkeepers" , he had bricks-and-mortar premises in mind.

Shopkeepers pulled down their shutters as protesters raced through the streets.

When the excitement had died down the shopkeepers took down their shutters and reopened their shops.

Many shopkeepers guarantee satisfaction to customers.

First, a double standard could arise if different rules governed sales by local shopkeepers to foreigners.

The customers were dissatisfied with the service of the shopkeepers.

The second group covers private entrepreneurs, their employees and archetypal small shopkeepers.

Newcomers to the town are welcomed with baskets of fruit by the local shopkeepers.

He has travelled extensively and talked widely, to generals, shopkeepers, farmers, lawyers and bureaucrats.

Wholesale houses buy in large quantities from other countries. They sell in smaller quantities to shopkeepers and other merchants.

He was pointed at by all the shopkeepers in town as one who never paid his bills.

Shopkeepers will not usually take back goods after they have been paid off .

The police have warned shopkeepers about the forged banknotes.

I'd order in French, but hearing my mangled grammar, the shopkeepers would immediately switch to English.

The customers were satisfied with the service of the shopkeepers.

Beside the parking lot where our bus was parked, some shops were closing, and some shopkeepers were eating a very late lunch.

The daughter of shopkeepers, she hails from a small village in the western province of Guizhou.

Shopkeepers said the final compensation should be about 30, 000 to 50, 000 yuan, based on current relocation compensation in Beijing.

Some shopkeepers quietly insist on pressing gifts on foreigners or refuse payment for goods.

The crooks shook down the shopkeepers for extortion money.

In turn these merchants and shopkeepers sell in still smaller amounts to individual buyers.

Heavy fines will be imposed on the parents of offending children and on shopkeepers or bar owners who serve them.

The other branches of the family remain in that little village, fishermen and farmers and shopkeepers.

This will allow Zlio "shopkeepers" to generate revenue every time someone clicks on a product in their shop.

Shopkeepers have been petrified, and bow their heads.

No Sewerage garage, the small shopkeepers have gone further here.

Two shopkeepers owned stores directly across the street from each other.

Napoleon branded Britain a 'nation of shopkeepers. ' Now it seems it is a nation of shoplifters .

Shopkeepers are dropping their awnings and getting out their bicycles.

Shopkeepers sit outside their little stores enjoying a warm spring breeze.

Many shopkeepers have fled. Taxi drivers smuggle ammunition and AK-47s from Egypt beneath punnets of strawberries.

The gangsters used threats of violence to force the shopkeepers to pay up.

Geese scatter, shopkeepers stand in their doorways.

Already, some shopkeepers in Bangkok, Hanoi and Singapore appear happy to accept renminbi as payment.

Shopkeepers were generally very friendly, and people very laid back.

The shopkeepers were told to keep the suspected man under constant observation.

The tax collector HAS been charged with extorting money from several shopkeepers.

Bethlehem hotels were full, and Palestinian shopkeepers like Nabil Jakaman were upbeat.

Most shopkeepers are getting in their Christmas goods.

The losses are rippling down to migrant shopkeepers who cater to them, and to workers' families, who rely on remittances.

The local shopkeepers sell souvenirs to the tourists.

In time these two shopkeepers will cut their own throats. They are always reducing prices to obtain each other's trade.

And shopkeepers let her use their telephones and bathrooms.

He badly needed money. He had expensive tastes, and owed a lot of money to shopkeepers.

We shopkeepers hear so muchbut all of it is unreliable gossip.

The gas - jets flared noisily , throwing ugly lights on the people, sailors, shopkeepers and farm hands .

Shopkeepers boarded up their stores for fear of looters .

It's fun to chat to the shopkeepers and guess the things you don't recognise.

I speak with people in business and education, doctors, shopkeepers and social workers, arents and teachers, nurses and lawyers.

Shopkeepers buy wholesale and sell retail.

Under new regulations, flimsy bags under 0. 025 millimeters thick are banned and shopkeepers must charge for carrier bags.

In 1894, with some twenty Chinese shopkeepers and farm owners in Honolulu, Sun formed the Xingzhong Hui (Revive China Society).

These two shopkeepers are in prison for tax evasion.

Banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.

Mana potions are now sold by some shopkeepers.

Shopkeepers argue, but in the end they want the business.

Shopkeepers typically make about $300 a month in commissions, and top sellers make about $3, 000.

Shopkeepers can upload as many or as few designs as they can create.

Shopkeepers called next fall, I have seen the skills of top names.

If you are interested, the shopkeepers can show you how to play them.

At this time you can not attack Shopkeepers or town NPCs, however this will be looked at and perhaps changed in the future.

A worry for investors is public pressure to cut rents, to help small shopkeepers as Hong Kong wallows in recession.

broadened the franchise's property qualification in the counties, to include small landowners, tenant farmers, and shopkeepers

Those who died were NOT just illiterate peasants from the highlands but shopkeepers, students and young men starting legal careers

Many shopkeepers guarantee the satisfaction of customers

a conspiracy of gangsters who were forcing shopkeepers to pay protection under the threat of personal harm

The baker was baking bread; shopkeepers were shutting their shops;

The government is planning to prohibit shopkeepers from selling cigarettes to children

A nation of digital shopkeepers