Примеры употребления для nation of shopkeepers
1. November 13 2005 23:00 Two hundred years ago Napoleon dismissed the English as a nation of shopkeepers.
2. If 1'th–century England was a nation of shopkeepers, the United States today is a nation of shoppers, and our role in the world economy is to buy what other countries –– or U.S.–based corporations with factories in other countries –– make.
3. The commission now needs to focus on finding robust solutions to redress the balance of power in the grocery market. «If supermarket growth continues unchecked we are in danger of becoming a nation of Tescos instead of a nation of shopkeepers.» Claire Melamed of charity ActionAid said three million people in the developing world supplied food to the leading UK supermarkets.
4. But of course it‘s going on all over Britain." From Tim Lang‘s book, Food Wars, I discover that we have gone from being a nation of shopkeepers to a population which gets half of its food from just 1,000 stores controlled by the four dominant retail players.