Meanings of commercial metropolis in английском

The great commercial metropolis had celebrated the occasion by a magnificent banquet.

The spirit of the commercial metropolis, long flagging, seemed at last broken.

When these cities declined in wealth, Antwerp became the commercial metropolis of the Netherlands.

Milan early rose to importance, and it still remains the commercial metropolis of Italy.

New York is the commercial metropolis of the Union.

This is a vast encumbrance in a modern commercial metropolis, but a striking tribute to the unseen.

But there were perhaps deeper reasons for the Advocate's unpopularity in the great commercial metropolis than theological pretexts.

The river was full of transports and gunboats, giving it the appearance of the harbor of some commercial metropolis.

Somehow, the citizens of the commercial metropolis never suspected for a single moment that he was a great man.

Moreover, it was apparent by this time that neither Georgetown nor Washington would ever be the commercial metropolis of America.

I speak to you now as a business man-asa merchant of New York, the commercial metropolis of the nation.

The pride of a commercial metropolis is in those material wonders which appeal to the senses, and which wealth can purchase.

General Washington wrote an able essay to prove the availability of Norfolk, Va., as the great commercial metropolis of the country.

The city of Mecca, located about fifty miles from the Red Sea, was a commercial metropolis and the center of Arabian heathenism.

All was joy in the Netherlands, while at Antwerp, the great commercial metropolis of the provinces and of Europe, the rapture was unbounded.

The representations of a friend, combined with dissatisfaction with his experience in the commercial metropolis, determined him to seek his fortune in the West.