Sentences with phrase «profiteering by»

«The profiteering by the Defendants, through child pornography and exploitation, as shown in the movies, has brought great hardship, embarrassment and shame on the Toelk family.»

I don't think you can blame the environmental movement for rampant and anti-environmental profiteering by agribusinesses realising that biofuel crops can be a huge money - spinner.

The reason for this non-traditional gap between rates is not one hundred percent attempt of profiteering by the lenders.

Distraught by the outrageous profiteering by the big publishing houses and their disregard for the size of the wallet of a college student parent, I made a vow to keep my book prices under $ 50.

States with weak charter laws encourage nepotism, profiteering by politicians, and worse,» according to the NPE report titled Charters and Consequences.

You want to maximize the impact on local students and minimize any profiteering by outside interests.»

GM Wheat May Damage Human Genetics Permanently The Australian government, in the form of its science research arm, is joining Agribusiness profiteering by designing a...

It is the legitimizing of profiteering by an oligarchy.

After all, you're profiting off of MLB's «racist» profiteering by writing this article, are you not?

That's a sign to currency raiders to try to profiteer by driving the Chinese currency down.

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.

Not exact matches

That's because Penraat «has been profiteering from a rent - controlled apartment partially subsidized by another government program,» wrote Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead in her injunction.

That view of Bechtel was given new currency this year by the publication in March of The Profiteers, a Bechtel exposé by veteran investigative reporter Sally Denton.

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

This activity has been spurred by the prevailing market ideology, by the concomitant deregulation of the financial markets and the growth of the financial services industry and by the combination of a, fairly sluggish economy with a hot stock market that encourages paper profiteering rather than investment in plant and product.

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.

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»???.

Rump is a sloppy profiteer with a government run by his family and in laws to improve the bottom line.

Or opening up the NHS to be feasted on by profiteers.

German politics at the time had the following rough divisions: A far left wing, personified by the KPD and USPD, which wanted a radical redistribution of wealth from rich profiteers to people at all levels; a social reorganization, doing away with noble, military, landowning, and industrial elite rulers; and an end to...

He showed a courage we have not seen in Labour's leadership for decades by confronting Murdoch, the profiteering energy and rail companies, and the banks.

«Neighborhood in the Nineties is emboldened by the comptroller's decision today and will now turn up the pressure on these homelessness profiteers.»

about Noam Bramson's Favorite Developer and Their Political Profiteering Exposed by Watchdog Group - Cause of Action

This is largely funded by anti-vaccine profiteers and is operated by an undistinguished former journalist, Daniel Olmsted.

Critics like Greenpeace say not enough is known about how the strain will mutate and fear that the technology — largely funded by agribusiness giant Syngenta — will be monopolised by profiteering corporations.

You are regurgitating old low - carb lies that are being spread around by book selling profiteers like Gary Taubes, Westman, Jimmy Moore and the rest of the pseudo-science book hucksters.

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.

Borrowing a page from the «Ghostbusters» playbook, the «Rampage» script alternates between pithy jokes and pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo (much of the latter falls to a pair of ruthless profiteers played by Malin Akerman and Jake Lacy).

Niccol is no stranger to hot - button issues, but he outdoes his previous efforts by injecting this satire of war profiteering in the Halliburton age with a wicked arsenic wit.

No, not by a long sleigh ride, but at least it offers some respite from the other bullshit holiday films we're routinely forced to endure for the sake of good tidings and shameless studio profiteering.

They were excited by policies that would spur «infusions of capital and entrepreneurialism,» but «we didn't take seriously enough the risk of 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.

Another factor that likely explains Florida's different scenario is the repeated claim by state education leaders, newspapers, and some members of the public that many charter schools in the state are engaged in profiteering and private enrichment, with support from powerful political allies in the state legislature and governor's office.

It is, therefore, deeply concerning that the hard work of supply teachers is being undermined by these profiteering agencies charging outrageous fees.

Our profession has been systematically marginalized and destroyed by profiteers and their propaganda.

All of these simpleminded, corporate reforms pushed by profiteers, politicians and the business community are putting our children's right to a developmentally appropriate and enriched education at risk.

America must choose either a patchwork of online schools and charters with profiteers on the prowl, or a transparent community public school system run by citizens elected by their neighbors.

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.

Outgoing NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said his members were «understandably frustrated» with Duncan and vowed to keep pushing the department to develop «student - centered» policies «that are influenced by those who know best — educators working in our classrooms and in our schools — rather than profiteers.»

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist - profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist — profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

«It is written to serve the needs and desires of the charter school movement and the predators and profiteers that have unapologetically gained from this experiment,» The Tribune said, «not the people, parents, students, voters and taxpayers of school systems that have been decimated by a so - called reform movement that has done far more harm than good.»

Using this structure for the Co-op ensures 1) the Co-op will be a nonprofit and concerns of profiteering or corporatization will not be an issue, and 2) the Co-op will be wholly owned and governed by its members, which will be towns, school districts, and the State.

It has also vindicated longstanding warnings by the labor movement about profiteering and mismanagement, and their case that ideological bias rather than sound public policy is driving privatization and outsourcing.

I always wonder why people are so adamant in their beliefs about change, when that change is created by profiteers, only interested in their biz and not the echo - system their a part of?

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 banks).

In fact, the judging may be done by the profiteer's staff, who may simply pick winners out of a hat.

It is, and has always been, our view that companion animals should be provided to the public directly by those responsible for breeding them and that there should be no third party involved or profiteering from such sales.

Lorne's original vision was to create a series of five videogames, the Oddworld Quintology, with each game introducing a new hero who would join the existing band of revolutionaries on their journey to put an end to the exploitation of cultures, people and the natural world by profiteering capitalists.