Systems functioned properly, people knew their place, and commerce and trade thrived.

Chalcedon, however, was a flourishing town in which trade thrived.

Its trade and import-export market is continually thriving.

More important, trade is thriving again along its ancient routes.

The online trade in stolen financial data is thriving.

The actual trade of the bowyers still thrives.

But a closer look, the police say, reveals that the trade is thriving.

While trade and commerce thrived, the building industry lost its workforce.

Recently, 2 000 monkey noses were found in a suitcase at Amsterdam airport, showing that the illegal trade is thriving.

Today, some of the scars of Soviet rule remain, but trade is thriving.