Sentences with phrase «profiteers did»

Slavery did not interest him, but pleasing Northern profiteers did.

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«India, it has been an important market for us, but again there is this opportunity cost of the deals that we are not able to do that don't get discussed,» Trump Jr. said, shrugging off criticism about profiteering from the president.

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

Darn that nasty profiteering meanie, he did exactly what he promised and the only people who were harmed were those who spent the money and did nothing.

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?

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?

«We don't look to profiteer from increasing prices and we only pass on fair increases at an appropriate time.»

You do not need me to tell you that Silent Stan and the profiteers at Arsenal will not match this sort of spending.

Does he mean the profiteers and insiders that have been running a tab on city property over the past unfettered and no bid deal making?

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...

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.

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.

doing for the Cold War what Three Kings did for the first Gulf war - i.e. following the adventures of a small group of profiteering soldiers in order to satirise the self - interested smash - and - grab attitudes of US foreign policy.

There's a token confrontational moment with their reality, but Efraim is such a sociopath he doesn't blink and David is too invested in still seeming like a good guy despite the war profiteering to pontificate on the cost of war.

But when Stark is kidnapped and sees the damage Stark Industries's weaponry does firsthand, Stark vows to end his war profiteering and becomes Iron Man.

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

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.»

They didn't go after funding inequity, poverty, reform faddism, consultant profiteering, massive teacher turnover, politicized bureaucratic management, or the overuse and misuse of testing.

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

Profiteers» profits don't just come from entry fees.

Revocation of licenses is one of the main tools of regulators to bring to heel the binary options brokers, though the lack of license has never stopped the companies from doing business and profiteering.

The advance fee ban is probably the primary rule profiteering debt settlement companies did not want to see released.

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.

Parvo runs rampant across many shelters that do not bother to vaccinate upon intake Pet profiteers» look in the mirror at some of your own

Anyone can succeed at this, if you don't give into the temptation to be a profiteering douchebag.

That EPA letter certainly played a part — as did sustained grassroots advocacy efforts, exposes on conflicts of interest between State and the pipeline's profiteers, and relentless debunking of false jobs and energy security promises — in the State Department's move to punt the decision for a year, take a fresh look at the proposals, and go back to the drawing board to create a new supplemental environmental impact statement.

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.

Well, Don, count me among the few who didn't know you had been successfully profiteering off people's worst fears for decades.

Agnostic, Politicians and profiteers are unwilling to do this, apparently, regarding climate.

Every penny that leaves the hands of consumers does so by design, the final step in elaborate and often brilliant orchestrations of public policy, all the more brilliant because the public, for the most part, does not know who is profiteering on climate change, or who is aiding and abetting the profiteers.

The fact that greens and AGW believers don't get, and that green profiteers hope few people notice, is that liquid fuels are pretty darned good.

CG, the world I would like is one of laws that include those that protect the safety of the people against profiteers who don't care about pollution, the environment, or the safety of their products or workers.

I notice that none of that needed ABS, so I ask again, why in the name of all things holy would we ever sell our ownership of the no - worse - than - second - most - important profession in the World to an extra layer of entirely profit motived remote investors when (a) we do not have to, (b) every last benefit claimed for ABS can be achieved without ABS, and (c) it would be utterly irreversible when it proves to be, as it most assuredly will prove to be, the most colossal, short - sighted, cynical, profiteering at the expense of the public, and unnecessary blunder in the history of the legal profession dating back 800 years?

Selden did get his place in history, though: his profiteering led many to dub him the first strategic non-practicing entity — aka patent troll.

Having a huge national site has now become a handicap as it has made us a target for the Competition Bureau and their somewhat misplaced crusade for the «good of the public «which really should be termed «for the good of a few profiteers that don't give a dam about the public and will say anything to increase their own profits ``.