11.   The pressure to support the regime, or at least keep quiet, affects many small private traders whose business depends on the support of state-run firms.

12.   The rebels have also confiscated gold, tin, and papaya extract from small traders, businessmen say.

13.   Westlake Trading is one of dozens of companies around the nation that allow small traders to buy and sell stocks within seconds through computerized systems hooked directly to Nasdaq.

14.   At present, he said, Booker which sells products directly to small traders and not end-consumers, operates only in Johor Baru.

15.   But he said he was innocent of other charges of wrongdoing and that he had helped many small traders by granting them loans.

16.   Exchanges, which are owned by local governments, have been accused of corruption and of abusing small traders by colluding with big state trading firms to set prices.

17.   Hard-line clergymen insist on maintaining an economic system dominated by state enterprises and small traders who are mostly in the conservative camp.

18.   If entrepreneurship, trade and commerce are to be expanded, the problems faced by the small traders should be attended to with due seriousness.

19.   In Belarus, small traders account for a large share of the consumer market.

20.   Officials said the travelers were likely small traders who buy goods such as clothing in Turkey to sell in Ukraine for a markup.