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    guilds


    1. The Guilds, being built on commerce, are very keen on maintaining the peace


    2. act as a corporation, without a charter, such adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not


    3. by a council of the guilds


    4. chose some representatives of the guilds and


    5. To be fair, much of this criticism is justified: his laboratory comprises a workbench in the corner of his garage, and his training consists of a City & Guilds in woodwork and a Bronze swimming certificate


    6. Rellin countered Milishak’s power by hiring wizards from the human wizards’ guilds, down in the empires


    7. There are hidden guilds of thieves and extensive criminal syndicates, and though only a small percentage of our populations turn to crime, they are as pervasive among both Shiganzhu and Bojudai as they are among humans or Kleti


    8. A cloud of poison gas that sickened thousands and would have killed them all were it not for a speedy and massive response by the Wizards’ and Healers’ Guilds of the city of Meto


    9. That level of power could have made her a journeyman in the wizards’ guilds, if she’d been so inclined


    10. My meetings with the trades guilds was much more productive, it didn’t take very long to see that here was the real strength of the community, the heart beat of the city, they stated sensible arguments for and against the way the city had treated their various enterprises

    11. Mohamed spoke English with what turned out to be a Manchurian accent, which the man from Zimbabwe thought was rather strange, until it had been explained that he had completed his jewellery-making City and Guilds in Manchester and couldn't shake off the accent


    12. Although the term “community of practice” is relatively new, the concept is centuries old, dating back to the guilds of the Middle Ages


    13. But the original small Guilds of the Middle Ages were just as rotten and corrupt as the new ones


    14. The only thing that allowed this system to have any upward mobility was the heads of the Guilds dying off from old age


    15. Read how the elite managed to poison all of these common-sense ideas and turn them back into an insane system of exclusive Medieval Guilds called Unions


    16. Instead of workers unions helping each other to destroy the power of the rich and the owners: these unions fought each other in keeping out all other workers from their exclusive, specialized guilds


    17. The craft guilds efficiently kept out upstarts


    18. After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors


    19. That was the trouble with guilds, he thought bitterly: it was in their interest to exclude


    20. As Kingsbridge grew, other guilds had been formed, representing crafts – carpenters, masons, brewers, goldsmiths – but their leading members also belonged to the parish guild, which retained its primacy

    21. Cancel meetings of all guilds


    22. The priory had lost its power to control the town merchants, but nevertheless Caris took an interest in the work Merthin and the guild were doing to create all the institutions of a borough – establishing new courts, planning a wool exchange and encouraging the craft guilds to codify standards and measures


    23. In mental illness and addiction, the individual disease advocacy groups score voting, as do the large caregiver guilds, facility owners, medical insurers, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, and others


    24. The Gunmakers Guild continued to protest (despite all evidence to the contrary) that so many “new and untried methods of manufacture must inevitably reduce our ability to arm Mother Church’s defenders in the field,” and some of the other guilds had joined them as they recognized the threat to their members’ prestige and income


    25. But the largest number of persons ready to enter into the service of Napoleon was found among the merchants of the three Guilds, and among officials, doctors, and aliens


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