Sentences with phrase «as mercenary as»

Trautmann: I'm making comics with friends, for my friends, and, as mercenary as it sounds, it's something we own.

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«I could not reconcile that the most expensive products I would put in my home, that would serve as the backdrop for all these memories, were served up in this mercenary, transactional environment,» Stuart says.

One former employee, who preferred to remain anonymous, described the culture within the company as «extremely mercenary» and shortsighted.

And who can forget how the National Post, Pravda of the Harper Government, functioned as a virtual recruiting agency for Canadian mercenaries to serve the Kurdish cause?

Sacred statues were adorned with golden ornaments that could be melted down in times of need to pay mercenaries (or perhaps pay ransom or tribute; see Oppenheim 1949), much as were the Winged Victory statues of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

Nonetheless, an entire industry of bankers and lawyers, «mercenaries like Goldman Sachs», as Icahn puts it, has sprung up to protect CEOs and corporate boards from Icahn's stinging jabs.

And I think all atheists everywhere should revel in the mercenary nature of Christmas (now far more Jewish / East Indian in its execution than anything else) and its exposure of «faith» as a conduit for greed, judgment, and repression.

• Military activities against Nicaragua have included covert operations carried out through groups such as the National Security Council, the CIA, and other «secret teams» of mercenaries, arms merchants, and drug - runners.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haAS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries haas what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

The point of playing armchair umpire over David as mercenary and king is to blow the whistle when one catches this rogue being unforgivably forgiven by God.

There are kooks like Roy Moore and other bizarre choices, such as Erik Prince of the Blackwater mercenary outfit.

And we were also promised that the sequel would include Cable, a tough - as - nails mutant mercenary who frequently finds himself teamed up with Deadpool, against his better judgment.

As for Hezekiah, the terrifying splendor of my majesty overcame him, and the Urbi and his mercenary troops which he had brought in to strengthen Jerusalem, his royal city, deserted him.

Palestinians are terrorists but those mercenaries imported from East Europe and African Flasha are not as terrorists...!?

Once the mind has â $ œconsented to be orthodoxâ $, then it becomes â $ œnarrow, rigid, mercenary, morally corrupt, and vengeful against dissenters.â $ But if «truth» is in the Christian bible, and it has been studied and accepted as truth, what else is there to pursue?

How General Dayton's little army would respond is unclear, but it is probable that it would prove just as unreliable as the Fatah mercenaries who refused to fight Hamas in Gaza.

As much as I support Wenger, I will hold my hands up when I think he (Wenger) is at fault, I do believe his idea on wages do nothing to help our players mature and if anything encourages them to grow as mercenarieAs much as I support Wenger, I will hold my hands up when I think he (Wenger) is at fault, I do believe his idea on wages do nothing to help our players mature and if anything encourages them to grow as mercenarieas I support Wenger, I will hold my hands up when I think he (Wenger) is at fault, I do believe his idea on wages do nothing to help our players mature and if anything encourages them to grow as mercenarieas mercenaries.

He is a mercenary with no love for Arsenal, he is happy to sit on the bench so long as he gets paid an exorbitant wage

As for calling him mercenary you can bet that Man U will still show more ambition than us and go after more world class players to show they are ambitious, where Wenger only reacts once we lose a player instead of adding to help keep them.

1 team is trying to improve, while still operating as a team, not mercenaries.

It wasn't hard to treat WSU as a little engine that could while viewing Kentucky as a team of one - and - done or two - and - done mercenaries.

Only as I any other business there are the conservative ones and the mercenaries.

Would you not prefer to see Mourinho exposed as a mercenary that can only win titles by spending billions in the transfer window?

Yesterday: Alexis Sanchez Baby Today: Alexis Sanchez Mercenary / Disruptive Influence Think about it... if you think Micki came to Arsenal to earn lesser wages than he was getting at Man Utd, then you are as blind as a bat with no sonar.

Although I think Ozil staying is unlikely I don't rule it out as I think he is a true mercenary and will go where the money is highest and that could be us.

Mercenary Sanchez — as is now clearly revealed — would bring huge trouble to a club, that, frankly, does not need him and his attitude to money.

Jack at the moment is our shining light and he actually is loyal to Arsenal as we have been to him - he should not be offered a pay cut as someone may sneak in and turn his head — I would be gutted if we lost him, Alexi the little mercenary I couldn't care less but not Jack he is a top lad with fight in him.

If he doesn't accept the generous contract offer that we offer him, which will make him a very rich man, and just signs for someone else for more money then he obviously doesn't want to play for us and will be thought of as just another mercenary player like RVP, Nasri, Hleb etc. I'm sure that what we offer him will be very good and the stalling to sign is just his agent angling for the highest offer so that his cut will be more.

Remember, our players are not designed to be mercenaries who we sell on as soon as they have contributed everything we believe they can.

I can respect a mercenary more if they just tell it as it is.

Ivan G has slowly and precise began the process of rebuilding the back room teams.This will bear fruit.We can compete in the transfer market - but only to a level.The level we are at will still allow us to outspend many many of our closest rivals in both this country and in Europe.Players sign for money of course.But most are not the greedy mercenaries like Sanchez.Most will sign for THE MANAGER every bit as much as THE CLUB.

Theo Walcott who to my mind need to be offloaded as soon as possible in my humble opinion to keep a player who has clearly lost his bottle and who also quiet obviously negotiated a pay rise in a wholeheartedly mercenary way would be a real mistake in my book.

As much as I would love if he goes to manage real and win fuck all with the mercenaries, I have to say he is best suited at anfielAs much as I would love if he goes to manage real and win fuck all with the mercenaries, I have to say he is best suited at anfielas I would love if he goes to manage real and win fuck all with the mercenaries, I have to say he is best suited at anfield.

In Britain, Nasri is largely perceived as a symptom of the modern game's most objectionable ills: being overpaid, brattish and a mercenary.

The other three, too, have been portrayed as mercenaries.

As was the case seven years ago, the loss of our Premier League status should help us to rid ourselves of any self - interested mercenaries who think they're too good for the division they've landed us in — leaving us with a core of players who actually want to play for the club and understand the privilege of doing so.

Chicago's best holiday, and one rapidly eclipsing Casimir Pulaski Day as the biggest Polish holiday, because it involves doughnuts instead of a mercenary (albeit one with mad cavalry skills).

He took the house keys we had Received that day, And hes telling me that I was a Mercenary bitch and he hoped my bed was as Icy as my heart and nearly flattened his mother coming from her job.

From a completely mercenary standpoint, measures such as hospital birth and interventions at the start of life are cost effective because the desired outcome is years of functional life.

Technically speaking, the pope IS a secular ruler of a country that holds an observer status at the UN, and as far as I'm aware, has a standing military (Swiss guard mercenaries).

These individuals are alleged to be controlling hundred of NPP social media mercenaries who serve as conduits for these reported fabricated stories.

The NPP has insisted that the three were neither «mercenaries» nor «terrorists» as being alleged by some officials of the NDC, but were experts who were only training bodyguards for Nana Akufo - Addo and his running mate Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.

Such mercenary tactics have earned Mr. Klein considerable opprobrium from certain corners, but there is a strong possibility he and his members will again act as kingmakers after next year's elections.

Saying that members of the state Legislature were acting as «mercenaries,» Bharara said the charges accusing Stevenson of drafting legislation in exchange for money that would aid co-defendants Igor and Rostislav «Slava» Belyansky, Igor Tsimerman and David Binman, were a violation of his «core duty.»

It would mean a lower standard of living for future retirees, reduce the ability to recruit individuals who see public service as a career and create a mercenary mentality where the commitment to public service no longer exists.

Karbo, since he was exposed plotting to import mercenaries into the country to disturb the peace of the nation as defeat stares NPP in the face, has been in hiding in his father's palace, in Lawra.

Unlike a film such as Spielberg's Munich, where it is easy to feel sympathy and empathy for the Mossad agents led by Eric Bana, where you admire the craft of what the filmmakers created, it is impossible to empathise with Meinhof, who it is clear from the start is way out of her depth and the mercenary Ensslin.

As Putin stated in the video clip, the IS terrorist are mercenaries who get paid for what they do.

When challenged by the host that even BNI didn't tag the three South Africans as «mercenaries», Mr. Anyidoho said, «I am saying they are mercenaries!

This was even as the Governor warned the opposition party against importing into the state hoodlums and mercenaries for the purpose of unleashing mayhem during the coming Osun West Senatorial by - election.