The Russo-German and Jewish middlemen in the country have their faces ever turned toward the Fatherland.
It is no longer held that they contributed anything original to the development of Mycenæan culture, and even as middlemen the tendency is to allow them an influence far smaller than was once held to be theirs.
The Railroad Company, thus owning nearly everything edible it brought into market, would buy and sell at uniform prices, and not bid against itself, as a crowd of hucksters and middlemen will often do.
The mother-country profits by the trade of these islands in two ways: the Dutch merchants are practically middlemen who create and manage the commerce; the Dutch Government receives an import tax of six per cent.
Armenians, Jews, and Greeks are the native middlemen and traders.
Saigon is the business centre and port at which the Chinese middlemen meet the European merchants and forwarders.
Shiploads of produce which planters and native middlemen were glad to convert into pesos at panic rates were picked up "dirt cheap," leaving rich profits to the buyers.
His transactions attained large proportions, and by the time this kind of trade in the bay became obsolete, he was already one of the most respected middlemen operating between the foreign houses and provincial producers.
The principal exporters employmiddlemen for the collecting of produce, and usually require their guarantee for sales at credit to the provincial purchasers of imports.
With these species of middlemen we are not now concerned, except to say that their work, which is that of distribution, i.
It may indeed be true that certain classes of middlemen are enabled by the position they hold to extract either from their employers or from the public a profit which seems out of proportion to the services they render.
The household furniture, water-jars, utensils of every kind, and all the grain and fuel on hand must be all taken out in public in the presence of the middlemento be sure that nothing is secreted.
The middlemen who have to conduct operations, begin by taking an inventory of the numerous pieces of land, the buildings, etc.
Trade soon became the Alpha and the Omega of all tribal diplomacy, and the Iroquois were discerning enough to realize that their natural rôle was to serve as middlemen between the western Indians and the English.
These Iroquois might have rendered great service to the English at Albany by acting as middlemen in gathering the furs from the West.
They act as middlemen between the hill people and the Komati traders.
There now remains clothing, the exact value of which is almost impossible to fix, because the profits realized by a swarm of middlemen cannot be estimated.
And what is the number of the shareholders and middlemen who levy the first fruits of labour from far and near, and heap up unearned gains by thrusting themselves between the producer and the consumer?
In the municipal territories the landholders of the towns played the role of the middlemen on the imperial domains.
As a result of this change of policy the middlemen were transformed from tenants into proprietors, and, like the landholders of Egypt, they were forced to assume the lease of vacant public land adjacent to their estates.
And here the government was on the horns of a dilemma, for if the middlemen were restrained from undue exactions often large areas remained untilled, and if the coloni were oppressed they absconded and left their holdings without tenants.
There were also middlemen wholesalers for cheese, butter, cloth, and iron.
The cloth workers in rural areas were isolated and weak and often at the mercy of middlemen for employment and the amount of their wages.
For ten years middlemen and workmen seem to have fought out their quarrel together; but in 1300 the burellers brought their grievances to the mayor’s court, and charged the weavers with making new ordinances contrary to all law.
A yet more complicated controversy divided the various crafts concerned in the making of saddles, where we have the reverse case of a union of middlemen conspiring to put under their feet the crafts of artizans with which they were connected.
To the middlemen of every sort the President was bluntly candid: "The eyes of the country are especially upon you," he said.
The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply.
With a string of middlemen between the head landlord and the cultivator, an acre let by the head landlord to his immediate lessor for five shillings per acre might cost the cultivator five pounds.
Whether the middlemen were of Irish descent or foreign, Catholic or Protestant it did not matter much to the tenant, as they were nearly all oppressors of the worse kind imaginable.
Imitations of the false standards of "decency" set up by the middlemen of the previous centuries are fast disappearing.
Middlemen were landlords between the head landlords and the cultivators.
Managers and middlemen organized the manufacture and made provisions for its distribution and sale.
Vast amounts of capital are invested directly by the people to whom it belongs without the aid of middlemen and large amounts are also invested through brokers of one kind and another who can hardly be classed as bankers.
They are the middlemen between the Bubi and the white trader.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "middlemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
