"private" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Most encomenderos were private adventurers rather than agents of the empire.
- It is upon this account that joint stock companies for foreign trade have seldom been able to maintain the competition against private adventurers.
- William Walker's short lived take over of Nicaragua in 1856 was the most famous and important of these private military adventurers.
- The attack on Lewis was renewed by others in 1605, but the undertaking again proved too much for private adventurers.
- First, the Spanish ship was sloop-rigged and clumsy, because she was fitted out by some private adventurers, not over wealthy, and glad to take what they could get.
- She was sold at Deptford in 1762 to private adventurers.
- And after disembarking upon the soil of that dread planet no Velantian, whether student or scientist or private adventurer, had ever returned to Velantia.
- No private adventurers, accordingly, have ever attempted to trade to that country in competition with them.
- But in this situation, the superior vigilance and attention of private adventurers would, in all probability, soon make them weary of the trade.
- It was an ambiguous business when a private American adventurer was landed with his pieces of artillery from an American war-ship, and became prime minister to the king.
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