Sentences with phrase «war profiteer»

A "war profiteer" is someone who makes a profit from selling weapons, goods, or services during times of war or military conflict. They benefit financially from the suffering and destruction caused by war. Full definition
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.
In order to recover a fabled ancient Indian artifact and keep it out of the hands of a ruthless war profiteer, Chloe Frazer must enlist the aid of renowned mercenary Nadine Ross (from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End).
The film presents the indelible true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer, and war profiteer who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
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.
Stop pretending that the WSJ doesn't have an agenda, which is protecting the corporate war profiteers that Bush is trying to protect — so that they can continue to loot the treasury to line republican campaign coffers.
A German Catholic war profiteer, Schindler moves to Krakow in 1939 when Germany overran Poland.
Sure, there was some commentary about war profiteering early on in the Iron Man films, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier glanced upon the idea of selling out privacy and freedom in the name of security.
Tony Stark has been through a lot over nearly a decade, from becoming a superhero and walking away from war profiteering to working with the government on registering enhanced individuals.
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.
Richie partners with a savvy hooker (Kate Hudson), a pair of hard - partying war profiteers (Danny McBride and Scott Caan) and a hair - trigger mercenary (Bruce Willis) and, braving dangerous cultural prejudices, manages his new protégée into becoming the «Afghan Star.»
In order to recover a fabled ancient Indian artefact and keep it out of the hands of a ruthless war profiteer, Chloe Frazer must enlist the aid of renowned mercenary Nadine Ross (from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End).
A profile of war profiteer, entrepreneur, aviation tycoon, arms dealer and documentary filmmaker Viktor Bout.
The central thesis of the movie is how that has corrupted American foreign policy but I would argue that the weapons makers are simply a group of bottom feeders and war profiteers who have no direct affect on foreign policy.
I love read billy graham stuff - the hypocracy is hilarious... we ve got big big problems in this country - war profiteering, bank scams almost beyond count.
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?
Whatever the worldly powers may be — Roman rulers or contemporary dictators, corrupt lobbyists, arms traders and war profiteers — Christians are called to witness to another, greater power.
The organization George Clooney co-founded, The Sentry, released the findings of a two - year, undercover investigation into the war profiteering of South Sudan's government leaders.
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?
But so immediate and unadorned are the horrors therein that I haven't brought myself to watch the 1993 Best Picture — about the enigmatic Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a war profiteer who saved 1,100 Jews from the concentration camps — since I first saw it 10 years ago.
As World War I begins, the film focuses on stock - market manipulation and war profiteering.
And one thing the picture makes clear: Nothing is ever safe when it comes to war profiteering.
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.
I didn't like the sequence in a casino — a callback to the Star Wars Cantina, of course, but also a chance to discuss the evils of war profiteers and the 1 %.
Or watch a studio film (Warner Bros.) that's one part wish - fulfillment and one part implicit critique of war profiteering?
The Notorious Mr. Bout / U.S.A., Russia (Directors: Tony Gerber, Maxim Pozdorovkin)-- Viktor Bout was a war profiteer, an entrepreneur, an aviation tycoon, an arms dealer, and — strangest of all — a documentary filmmaker.
We're told in the dialogue that Charles has lots of «questionable» business dealings but learn so little about them that his war profiteering and subsequent change of heart have to be taken on faith; though his working - class origins are lightly sketched in, the film fails to do very much with them.
Oh is Veronica, a snobbish, upwardly - mobile bourgeoise who likes to steamroll her sensitive son's artistic dreams and guzzle her Cabernet, much to the chagrin of her war profiteer husband.
The final hour or so of the film is filled with truly intense and shocking moments — all while Johnson also finds time to examine more complex things that Star Wars has never dealt with before, like celebrity, war profiteering, and the importance of letting go of the past.
In the film's opening scene, Tony Stark sits in the back of a Humvee with three soldiers, traveling in a convoy with other members of the American military and the war profiteers of Stark Enterprises.
Mike Robe's 1991 TV mini-series presented a more detailed and straightforward biography of Custer's life, while this early studio production during the war years shaped events to reflect more contemporary morals: heroism, self - sacrifice, and the preservation of democratic ideals are sacred, while greed and war profiteering - via Ned Sharp - are ruinous, and unconscionable.
Students will pretend to be a war profiteer / salesman trying to pitch your weapon to the nations fighting in Europe.
Even this boarding school, of which the Empress herself was patron and which was filled with the daughters of aristocrats and war profiteers, could no longer feed its girls or heat its dormitories.
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 negotiators.
The two women join forces in India to hunt down the Tusk of Ganesh, an ancient artifact representing power and domination, and race to get it before Asav, a war profiteer looking to incite a civil war in the country to take power.
The two race to find the artifact before the war profiteer Asav, who only wishes to obtain the tusk for his gain.
Uncharted — The Lost Legacy (PS4): In order to recover a fabled ancient Indian artifact and keep it out of the hands of a ruthless war profiteer, Chloe Frazer must enlist the aid of renowned mercenary Nadine Ross (from UNCHARTED 4: A Thief's End).
To make up for his transgressions, he is assigned to kill 9 war profiteers and Crusader leaders who are helping to further the European Crusades to take the Holy Land.
In order to track it down — and keep it out of the hands of a ruthless war profiteer — she must enlist the help of former paramilitary leader turned gun - for - hire Nadine Ross.
Fan - favorite character, Chloe Frazer, must enlist the aid of renowned mercenary Nadine Ross from Uncharted 4: A Thief's End in order to recover a fabled ancient Indian artifact and keep it out of the hands of a ruthless war profiteer.
Titled Here She Is... v1, this video gives a soapbox to an exuberant and monumentally wigged drag queen, who with Southern charm rambles breezily but articulately through front - page topics ranging from trade agreements, to energy summits, to war profiteering.
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