Sentences with phrase «profiteering in»

Gore's suspect profiteering in the Silver Spring and Fisker deals are but the tip of the iceberg and pale in comparison to the tens of billions to be made by Gore and his partners at KPCB, Capricorn Investment Group LLC, Generation Investment Management, and Goldman Sachs in the sale of carbon credits in a global cap - and - trade regime.

If we outlaw profiteering in these two sectors, my bet is that it will increase the quality of public education and decrease the cost of health care.

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.

It is a program to eliminate profiteering in a highly distorted market, to secure market fairness and to promote stable neighborhoods.

Labour's new plans to reduce private profiteering in the NHS have triggered a vicious counter-attack in the Tory press.

It isn't just about Bratton's profiteering in the private security industry.

It's time to end the role of CCA, GEO, and other prison profiteers in our inhumane immigration system.

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.

The Connecticut State Board of Education has permitted profiteers in the form of the totally inadequate Relay Graduate School of Education to train and certify prospective teachers for our neediest schools.

The Connecticut State Board of Education permitted profiteers in the form of the totally inadequate Relay Graduate School of Education to certify teachers for our neediest schools.

That's not only naive, it leaves just one profiteer in the equation: publishers.

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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.

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

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.

It is even more beyond comprehension to me when I realize that the vast majority of that dirty money will in no way benefit British Columbia — it will go mostly to wealthy and powerful financial investors and to American oil profiteers.

«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.»

In 1980, the Financial Deep State realized that there existed an extraordinary opportunity for serial plunder and profiteering: the manipulation of the gold and silver markets.

In meetings, the executives began warning Mylan's top leaders that the price increases seemed like unethical profiteering at the expense of sick children and adults, according to people who participated in the conversationIn meetings, the executives began warning Mylan's top leaders that the price increases seemed like unethical profiteering at the expense of sick children and adults, according to people who participated in the conversationin the conversations.

The Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14 - 27 (a similar narrative found in Luke 19:11 - 24) is an oft - cited parable, and sometimes abused to validate profiteering.

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.

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.

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.

While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mostly to make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Christian position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?

Francis criticized «those who betray the trust put in them and profiteer from the Church's motherhood.»

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.

Oh wait, you're right, I almost forgot how happy Jesus was with the profiteering money changes in the temple that took advantage of the poorer members of the populace?

He should remain in charge of the whole rotten edifice - the whole profiteering, woman - fearing, guilt - gorging, truth - hating, child - raping institution - while it tumbles, amid a stench of incense and a rain of tourist - kitsch sacred hearts and preposterously crowned virgins, about his ears.

While I commend Beck for advocating charity (even if he does it mosty to make political points), if people like Beck and Santorum are such devout, outspoken Christians, why were they not vocal in support of the long - standing Vatican and Chrisitan position that the War in Iraq violated Christian Just War Criteria from the beginning, and vociferously denounce the draft - dodging, war profiteers and religious hypocrites who started it?

if you are an optimist, then the situation could present a turning point in the club's operating strategy: from profiteering to prioritize winning, from stagnation to reformation.

The government accuses food bank operators of profiteering and «publicity - seeking», after new figures reveal a surge in the number of people resorting to their use.

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

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

«In order to have a city government operate with integrity you can't blend the two because of the opportunity for profiteering from one's relationship.»

De Blasio just can't get enough of nonprofits: He's setting up a new one, the NYC School Support Services Corp., in what looks like another union payoff in the name of ending the long - running scandal of profiteering custodians.

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

Maurice Hinchey's profiteering off his position in Washington is highlighted in the recent article below in Business Insider.

Just two years ago, we saw the two most powerful state legislative leaders — two of the three men in a room — convicted within mere months of each other for having used their positions of power for personal gain and profiteering.

In light of the recent hikes in energy prices, let's take a look at who owns the energy companies supplying the UK and who is profiteering from our misery and why OGFEM is a toothless beast and should be scrapped because an energy cartel is alive and well in the UK, fleecing us, the consumerIn light of the recent hikes in energy prices, let's take a look at who owns the energy companies supplying the UK and who is profiteering from our misery and why OGFEM is a toothless beast and should be scrapped because an energy cartel is alive and well in the UK, fleecing us, the consumerin energy prices, let's take a look at who owns the energy companies supplying the UK and who is profiteering from our misery and why OGFEM is a toothless beast and should be scrapped because an energy cartel is alive and well in the UK, fleecing us, the consumerin the UK, fleecing us, the consumers.

I know I still use gas in my home, so everyone needs time to convert to a changing infrastructure including me, but I'm doing everything I can to tell the children of the future we knew and tried to stop the death profiteering energy monopolies in NY.

Under Obasanjo, Nigeria's public holdings, from factories to government housing stock was liquidated; privatized and sold in what should pass for the most brazen form of profiteering and looting of any nation in history.

In calling for the hearing, Squadron and Hoylman wrote «it is clear that New York State has created a system that enriches brokers and profiteers at the expense of everyday fans.

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.»

Increases in New York tobacco taxes perversely incentivize profiteers; especially those waging war against America and Israel.

On January 15, 1966, Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu said, «Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the men in high and low places that seek bribes and demand 10 per cent.»

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».

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...

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.

At one point in the film, a character is accused of «profiteering off the miseries of others» and that is exactly what Zombie will do to you if you see this movie.