Salt was extremely valuable and unscrupulous merchants may have replaced the salt with other substances.

But many experience disappointment if not considerable material loss at the hands of unscrupulous merchants.

Law-enforcement officials say that sales to unscrupulous merchants is only one of a number of ways the program is abused.

From the mid 1570s onwards Clerk was regularly paid to "turn a blind eye" to the dealings of the more unscrupulous merchants of Pembroke town.

And enact real tobacco legislation to protect our children and grandchildren from the unscrupulous merchants of death.

Those unscrupulous merchants who did not fear the Church had a healthy fear of the Trevinici.

With regard to the former, unscrupulous merchants seeking to increase their profit even further might have supplied their ships with meager provisions.

Reportedly, unscrupulous merchants wrap, paint, or remove the stalks altogether.

An unscrupulous merchant finds the inexperienced girl and hires her as his housewife and guarantor.

The British Antique Dealers and similar associations select their peers carefully; one unscrupulous merchant hurts them all.