Wealthy merchants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the town and built their houses gable to gable.

This merchant and professional class dominates urban society.

Great landowners and merchants dominated the Legislative Assembly, which controlled the colony's revenues and expenditures.

Muslim merchants however dominated internal trade and trade between the interior and coastal cities.

Moorish merchants from India and Arabiya dominated the trade of the kingdom until the arrival of the Portuguese.

In fact, in all the American colonies, whether French (Martinique), British, or Dutch, Jewish merchants frequently dominated.

The merchant controlled the rates of pay and economically dominated the cloth industry.

It rose to become an economic powerhouse, a commercial center whose merchants dominated Mediterranean and Italian trade for a century before being surpassed and superseded by Genoa.

However, plantation owners and merchants of British descent still dominated local politics, owing to the high-income qualification required for voting.

British merchants dominated trade in the region.