Sentences with phrase «as profiteering»

They view auto accident cases as a profiteering operation and often act with callous disregard for the well being of the client.

And when one considers the millions of women denied freedom thanks to Islamic Fundamentalism and the millions more slaughtered during religious wars, moral crusades can also be as damaging to humankind as profiteering.

He is critical of the energy companies for what he regards as their profiteering, but their margins are slender.

As a result, a growing number of related programs, apps, and computer skill - and - drill are flooding the market as profiteers and market - savvy snake oil salesmen stand ready to cash in.

Not exact matches

As for the way the company is described in The Profiteers, he says he doesn't recognize the Bechtel portrayed in the book.

It may be as likely that these two parties will settle their profiteering differences out of the public eye.

And as for the stock market, the effect would be to create a boom, from which speculators no doubt would profiteer by riding the wave of social security and pension inflows into the market.

The rigging of gold persists without regulatory or legal interference because it is based on a straightforward deal between the profiteering Deep State financial elite, and the western governments they control: the criminals are allowed to manipulate the gold market however brazenly they wish and keep whatever sums they steal, as long as they keep the gold price under control.

It's a further mockery to imagine that humans need to / should reproduce... As if... The (impending) thermonuclear war that prolifer's drool over, in greedy anticipation of the next corporate - profiteering - adventure, (in Iran), has already occurred / mushroomed from a mere corporate profiteering crime to the Unthinkable!!

Vanderbilt had been stung, in his elder years, by public resentment of him as a crude and crooked profiteer, and he was anxious to offset this repugnant image with some philanthropy.

It may well be attested as truth that the then hierarchies of secularims» patronizings amid the 17th and even into the 18th centuries, were aligned themselves with profiteering principles, but many of those early colonizers were matter O» factly of religious persuasions.

Frankly, I see this «self - reliance» mantra as a cover for hoarding and a person like you as someone who would happily profiteer on food and water in an emergency.

The people of the United States became mere spectators as an array of ideological extremists, vested interests, and foreign operatives — including domestic neoconservatives, Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi exiles, the Israeli Lobby, the petroleum and automobile industries, warmongers and profiteers allied with the military - industrial complex, and the entrenched interests of the professional military establishment — essentially hijacked the government.

And because they are entertainers, comedians, and profiteers that pander to the most mindless generation of youth in our country's history, their hate and disdain willl always be played off as humor and subtle disregard.

Moroni was a «pretty horn blowing fictional thingie» or would a better description be «one of the many hallucinations seen by founders of the major religions» or» a clone of the fictional Gabriel» or «son of Mormon, the propheteer / profiteer», or «actually Nephi», or «good buds with John the Baptist, Peter, James, John, Moses, Elijah, and Elias all who ministered to Joseph Smith as angels»???.

He suggests that the club is happy to use the Frenchman as a buffer between their profiteering and the anger of the fans.

As Angolan oligarchs and profiteering foreign consultants reaped astonishing sums in a free - for - all reconstruction economy, the broader Angolan society was growing restless.

While we acknowledge the inherent rights of any person or group of persons to criticize the former President, we strongly object to crafty attempts to use the death of our late brother as fertile political grounds to sow seeds of political profiteering.

As the shortages increased, others hiked their prices above the official government rate — leading to accusations of profiteering.

«We need only look as far as Michigan to see what happens when elected officials allow profiteers like Betsy DeVos to drain resources from public schools and weaken the regulations that govern private, religious and charter schools,» he said.

But Brown is still balking at sacking his communities secretary Hazel Blears for her expenses profiteering, letting it be known he has «full confidence» in her while at the same time describing her behaviour as «totally unacceptable».

She also cited to justify her profiteering the former Tory MPs Andrew McKay and Julie Kirkbride, a parliamentary husband and wife team who lived together, yet each of them claimed housing allowances as if they were separate individuals.

Andy Serkis as Ulysses Klaw and Martin Freeman's Agent Ross will inevitably be referred to as «the white actors» in this movie, but each is vital to its success, portraying the two sides of colonization: the sneering profiteer, and the smiling, unassuming westerner whose intentions might be good, but whose motives aren't always clear.

Hugh Jackman sailed by as the wreckless, initially heartless, American profiteer who emotionally evolved much later in life to a place he should have found decades before.

As a side means of profiteering, he breaks into the houses of Jewish residents, extorting them of belongings and money through the threat of exposing them to the Nazis.

As World War I begins, the film focuses on stock - market manipulation and war profiteering.

And when Phillips's regular ace Bradley Cooper shows up — as a scowling war profiteer — it just feels like stunt casting and a missed opportunity for levity.

Eventually, they get to the Front — where the film introduces Eugene Brave Rock as the last throwaway sidekick, an American Indian who's a black market profiteer selling to both sides, even though the Germans are really, really, really, really bad guys in Wonder Woman.

The very much alive masked Myers continues slicing up vics, as the pompous profiteering shrink who treated Myers, the hammy Dr. Loomis (Malcolm McDowell), swears he's dead and the celebrity author comes out with another bestselling trashy book on the maniac that reveals that Laurie, living under an assumed name, is Myer's damaged - goods younger sister.

The Third Man One of the finest films ever made, Carol Reed's The Third Man stars Joseph Cotten as a disillusioned fiction writer and Orson Welles as an enigmatic war profiteer in post-war Vienna.

It's become increasingly clear that the extended adaptation is born less out of financial profiteering and more out of fanboy passion to include as much as possible.

Thus, Iron Man — originally conceived in 1963 as an anti-communist force of democratic might — becomes the wish - fulfillment fantasy of modern America, a virtuous application of our unrivaled military hardware free from administrative buffoonery and private profiteering.

But in states like Florida, where charters are perceived by many as vehicles for privatization and profiteering, even as they grow in popularity with families, charter advocates are likely to face continued controversy and conflict.

All of the problems associated with charter schools, such as, siphoning of public school funding, increased segregation, scandalous recruiting practices and blatant profiteering can be found in charters in and surrounding America's Christmas City.

So long as education policy continues to be shaped by the interests of corporate profiteering and not the interests of our public school children, we will resist these unjust testing laws.

Still others are, undoubtedly, hucksters and profiteers who have seen the relatively new school choice sector as an easily exploited honey pot that is still too loosely regulated to catch fraud in the form of double dealing and self enrichment.

The DeVos record in her home base of Michigan should be on great concern to those who see public education as a public good that should not be turned over to profiteers.

Having thought considerably about the trade - offs involved in the Every Child Achieves Act as recently passed through the Senate HELP subcommittee, the cons continue to out - weigh the pros enabling edu - profiteers unfettered access to a market that should remain within the public trust.

Makes the term «knowledge worker» more ominous, Factory - based education, with Bill Gates, Eli Broad and the other Profiteers as our Bosses.

It's easy to question the motives of a Bill Gates or a Whitney Tilson, or worse, paint them as greedy profiteers (when, in all honesty, neither are making a profit off of any of this).

Indie publishers often see themselves as victims who are locked out of well - deserved opportunities by a cadre of hypocritical profiteers, but the truth is not so cut and dry.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banksAs for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banksas a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

As well as exploring Rizzoli's doubts about her mothering ability and her concern with her lack of maternal instinct (topical for many first - time mothers), Gerritsen touches on subjects as diverse as sex slave trafficking, war profiteering and sieges and negotiatorAs well as exploring Rizzoli's doubts about her mothering ability and her concern with her lack of maternal instinct (topical for many first - time mothers), Gerritsen touches on subjects as diverse as sex slave trafficking, war profiteering and sieges and negotiatoras exploring Rizzoli's doubts about her mothering ability and her concern with her lack of maternal instinct (topical for many first - time mothers), Gerritsen touches on subjects as diverse as sex slave trafficking, war profiteering and sieges and negotiatoras diverse as sex slave trafficking, war profiteering and sieges and negotiatoras sex slave trafficking, war profiteering and sieges and negotiators.

To maximize income, profiteers create as many entry categories as possible, and encourage multiple entries.

You wouldn't think they'd want a reputation of ruthless and possibily illicit profiteering anywhere near an imprint as respectable as Penguin.

In fact, it is almost as if borrowers are agreeing to the government's profiteering without knowing it.

We wanted to rescue because I can't bare the profiteering from puppy farms and as there are so many dogs in need out there that it seemed like the right thing to do.

Right about now is an excellent time to start letting those elected officials who refuse to support the Puppy Mill Bills know that there are more dog lovers in Pennsylvania than there are breeders and that you will be voting for candidates who refuse to support the pet profiteers and their breed for greed mentality as well as for those who place compassion above cash contributions.

As far as the unlikely hood of getting healthy pets from pet stores, which come from unsanitary, inhumane puppy mills, word is getting out and one day no one will support the pet profiteers and they will all have to get real jobs and work for a living instead of making their dirty money off the back end of abused and neglected animals that have no voicAs far as the unlikely hood of getting healthy pets from pet stores, which come from unsanitary, inhumane puppy mills, word is getting out and one day no one will support the pet profiteers and they will all have to get real jobs and work for a living instead of making their dirty money off the back end of abused and neglected animals that have no voicas the unlikely hood of getting healthy pets from pet stores, which come from unsanitary, inhumane puppy mills, word is getting out and one day no one will support the pet profiteers and they will all have to get real jobs and work for a living instead of making their dirty money off the back end of abused and neglected animals that have no voice.

-- As the author, philosopher and social critic Jostein Gaarder said, live on television, in July 2007: «Norway is a nation of CO2 profiteers.»