MacAskill, in a statement to the Scottish Parliament defending his decision, refrained from quoting from the best known speech on mercy in the English language that of Portia in Shakespeare s The Merchant of Venice but Portia s words would have fitted the core of his statement.

Elementa Geometriae 1482, Venice.

This man is a merchant.

In Venice, there are always lots of tourists.

Arora worked in the Merchant Navy.

However, old republics such as Venice and Genoa were not recreated, Venice went to Austria, and Genoa went to the Kingdom of Sardinia.

He died in Venice at the age of 73.

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life

Venice also declared its independence from Austria.

It is estimated that approximately 220,000 merchant vessels of more than 100 tonnes cross the Mediterranean Sea each year about one third of the world's total merchant shipping.

1994 Appointed to the Board of Directors of Cavemont Merchant Bank

In 1420, it was conquered by the Republic of Venice.

He was the son of Evangelos Marangos, a Greek cotton merchant.

We were discussing Thomas Mann s Death in Venice.

They say that Venice is a beautiful city.

He told me he would go to Venice.

Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

Venice is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States.

The siege was raised after the arrival of Scaramuccia da Forlì from Venice.

Genoa replaced Venice in the monopoly of commerce with the Black Sea territories.

During the Fourth Crusade (1204), Venice conquered a quarter of the Byzantine Empire.

It comprised most of northern and central Italy, but excluded the Republic of Venice.

Participating in its work is the Office of the General Coordinator of Ports and Merchant Shipping together with the General Directorate of Ports, the Merchant Navy, the Ports Authority and the Maritime Education Trust Fund (FIDENA).

The former was a warship, the latter mainly a merchant ship.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls

It will continue to move towards beautiful decay Venice writ large.

Thomas Mann wrote the novel Death in Venice , published in 1912.

In exchange Prussia would allow Italy to annex Austrian controlled Venice.

The opinion of the Venice Commission is scheduled to be adopted in March 2005.

She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.

She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.

She maketh fine linen, and selleth it and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant seeking fine pearls,

He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand he loveth to oppress.

It was shown in the out of competition section at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

Sixteenth century Venice turned the wealth of the spice trade into the canvases of Titian and Tintoretto.

By the end of the 14th century, Venice had become one of the richest states in Europe.

St Mark's Square in Venice is always swarming with tourists in the summer.

He returned home by car and aeroplane, through Basra, Baghdad, Cairo, and Venice.

In 2001, Bahrain had a merchant fleet of eight ships of 1,000 GRT or over, totaling 270,784 GRT.

Venice fortified Padua with new walls, built between 1507 and 1544, with a series of monumental gates.

Venice continued to fight bitterly with the Ottoman Empire for control of outposts in the eastern Mediterranean.

Canals were developed in the Middle Ages in Europe in Venice and the Netherlands.

Another example of a pirated ship is that of the merchant vessel Feisty Gas, a liquefied petroleum gas tanker.