Sentences with phrase «war profiteering»

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.

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.

While a finalist for the post of Superintendent in Washoe County in Nevada, Kimberly Olson (class of 2005) pled guilty of having engaged in war profiteering when she was a colonel in Iraq.

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.

Or watch a studio film (Warner Bros.) that's one part wish - fulfillment and one part implicit critique of war profiteering?

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.

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.

And one thing the picture makes clear: Nothing is ever safe when it comes to war profiteering.

As World War I begins, the film focuses on stock - market manipulation and war profiteering.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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?

Soon, the scheming and manipulative Schindler prominently insinuates himself and becomes the center of the party - he rubs shoulders with everyone in the room to make a name for himself - the first step in his pragmatic business scheme to become a war profiteer and capitalize on the changing political environment.

A German Catholic war profiteer, Schindler moves to Krakow in 1939 when Germany overran Poland.

Oskar Schindler was an enterprising, womanizing Nazi Sudeten - German industrialist / opportunist and war profiteer, who first exploited the cheap labor of Jewish / Polish workers in a successful enamelware factory (Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik or D.E.F.), and eventually rescued more than one thousand of them from certain extinction in labor / death camps.

A profile of war profiteer, entrepreneur, aviation tycoon, arms dealer and documentary filmmaker Viktor Bout.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The two race to find the artifact before the war profiteer Asav, who only wishes to obtain the tusk for his gain.

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).

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).

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.

Not exact matches

I guess you prefer politicians that lie their way into a second war while we're still fighting the first without bothering to figure out how to pay for it, give no - bid million dollar government contracts to their profiteering cronies, then fail to oversee those contracts, leading to BILLIONS of tax dollars wasted.

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!!

It is a mockery of the multi-verse to imagine that Earth, (aka, the befouled, way - over-crowded, war - profiteering & starvation - choked, singular - human - terrarium), is a mere 6 - 10,000 years old!

Not pursuing that wasteful war with Iraq and avoiding the profiteers would've been great.

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

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 poliWar 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 poliwar - 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.

His hyper - violent journey leads him right to the doorstep of the war - profiteering Senator Armstrong.

Thrashing alongside these ideas of cultural expansion is a fight to protect the home country, from a war - profiteering thief named Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis, having an enormous amount of fun) and his partner, the American radical Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan).

And when one considers the millions of women denied freedom thanks to Islamic Fundamentalism and the millions more slaughtered during religious wars, moral crusades can also be as damaging to humankind as profiteering.

You might say «But I'm not a terrorist or a pervert or profiteering of war crimes!»

Truman investigated war time profiteering, Kefauver investigated crime, Kennedy investigated labor, Church investigated the CIA, and Mondale investigated non-profit fund raising.

To stop paying OPEC would entail changing the mindset of this administration and its donors and supporters in big business, prominently including oil companies and associated war - profiteering companies like Hallburton, so I wonder about the depth of your commitment to alternative (renewable) energy sources; please correct me if I am wrong.

The Oil Depletion Protocol: is a global framework for distributing the world's remaining oil reserves more equitably than free market forces would allow, to avoid resource wars, profiteering and economic collapse.

Now that we know what an 83 % CO2 cut means, what would this Democratic, Al Gore - type profiteering, environmental jihadists» war on CO2 cost Americans?