Sentences with phrase «through usury»

Back in the old «Colonial Days», the powers - that - be would send the colonists to some foreign country to dislodge the indigenous peoples and develop their new «living room» land, this while they tried to tax the settlers through usury & all so that the «nobility» could throw real big parties on their estates.

They also expanded their holdings through usury and the various other legal or illegal methods by which the great families amassed their holdings.

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The Old Testament forbade usury totally, and the Christian Church right through the middle ages.

Through emphasizing the «calling» to work as a way of serving God, through warning against the pursuit of frivolous leisure - time activities, and through approving the abolition of laws against usury, the Calvinist work ethic facilitated the accumulation of Through emphasizing the «calling» to work as a way of serving God, through warning against the pursuit of frivolous leisure - time activities, and through approving the abolition of laws against usury, the Calvinist work ethic facilitated the accumulation of through warning against the pursuit of frivolous leisure - time activities, and through approving the abolition of laws against usury, the Calvinist work ethic facilitated the accumulation of through approving the abolition of laws against usury, the Calvinist work ethic facilitated the accumulation of wealth.

The concept of «usury» is a powerful one for all three Abrahamic faiths, and it allows them all to cut through to the core moral issue of payday lending — namely whether companies are using people's desperation as an opportunity for profit.

A number of states, either through the legislature or judiciary, have ruled the practice is usury and therefore regulated under lending laws.