Mercenariness

The Western Front does not cover everything -- the deceptions of the Bush Administration, the unintelligence of the intelligence community, the incompetence of the US civilian authority in Baghdad, the mercenariness of the humanitarian and reconstruction industry, the inflexibility of the US military leadership - no one film could indulge all those wrongs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You attack of our soldiers and label them as mercenariness. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Why are mercenariness not entering the area to find him? ❋ Unknown (2007)

This attribution of mercenariness to Burke (who had in fact accepted a small pension from the British government for services rendered, and who had also been the London lobbyist or representative of the colony of New York during his defense of the rights of the American colonists) is also to be found in the work of Thomas Paine and Dr. Joseph Priestley. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Belmont, for him, is a great recusant house where "mercy ... redeems the mercenariness of the Protestant market" in Venice, and Portia, as the epitome of "matriarchal Catholicism," presides in private over the rites and festivals of the Roman Church while providing a safe haven for her coreligionists. ❋ Barton, Anne (2006)

But having there thus elevated and puffed him up, he again here throws him down to mercenariness and sophistry; nay, to asking money and even to receiving it beforehand, sometimes at the very entrance of his scholar, and otherwhiles after some time past. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Neither would we have achieved the glory we have achieved so many years. [clearing indistinct words from original Tele Rebelde and Cubavision version] We should accomplish this based upon morality, conscience, patriotism, and integrity, because there have always been athletes, they always have, who in recent times have been lured by mercenariness, by commercialism, and by greed. ❋ Unknown (1996)

We should accomplish this based upon morality, conscience, patriotism, and integrity, because there have always been athletes who in recent times have been lured by mercenariness, by commercialism, and by greed. ❋ Unknown (1996)

_Kindly tell me if the Mr. KIPLING who has been making such a splendid speech about the Cabinet and their mercenariness and the treacherous nature of the Irish is the same Mr. KIPLING who wrote "The Recessional" and "Without Benefit of Clergy"? ❋ Various (N/A)

As the circumstances of the case and the motives of the parties are unknown to me, and as a biographer ought not to take the same liberties as a novelist, I shall neither expatiate on the fickleness and mercenariness of woman, nor attempt to describe the feelings of our unfortunate hero robbed of his ideal, but leave the reader to make his own reflections and draw his own moral. ❋ Niecks, Frederick (1888)

That visit to the stately home, which makes Elizabeth wince about her brusque rejection of Darcy's proposal, was omitted from the 1940 film, to clear Greer Garson of any suspicion of mercenariness. ❋ Peter Conrad (2011)

Oh, weariness of man's spirit before that unresting mercenariness in high places, which neither, when his race clamored for justice, nor when it languished for pity, would listen without hire! ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Mary is very thankful for your remembrance of her, and with the less suspicion of mercenariness, as the silk, the _symbolum materiale_ of your friendship, has not yet appeared. ❋ Mary Lamb (1805)

To send him any thing in return would be to reflect suspicion of mercenariness upon what I know he meant a freewill offering. ❋ Mary Lamb (1805)

Mr. Churchill and my sister are just arrived from France; you know my passion for the writing of the younger Cr ` ebillon: (324) you shall hear how I have been mortified by the discovery of the greatest meanness in him; and you will judge how much one must be humbled to have one's favourite author convicted of mere mercenariness! ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

The proof Satan undertakes to give of the hypocrisy and mercenariness of Job's religion, if he might but have leave to strip him of his wealth. ❋ Unknown (1721)

"... would yield to the lewdness of Honuphrius to appease the savagery of Sulla and the mercenariness of the twelve Sullivani, and (as Gilbert at first suggested) to save the virginity of Felicia for Magravius" -- now hold on a moment, how could Felicia still be considered a virgin at this point? ❋ Blish, James (1953)

It is about exploitation, mercenariness yep, it’s a word, disrespect, and possibly an agenda against the LDS Church. pete ❋ Unknown (2009)

I [hired] a mercenary to take out that [pesky] [mob boss] who threatened to shut down my business. ❋ AYB (2003)

He [hired] an army of [mercenaries] to fight the battle for him, paying them money. The [mercenary] only wanted the money for what he had done. ❋ Soulhaiena (2014)

[Mercenaries] [swept] across [the land], only to be rehired by those once their enemies. ❋ Detranova (2003)

Mercenary - [Mattias] [Nilsson] - [Mercenaries] 2 ❋ MagicMan803 (2008)

Me: [Don't get me wrong] here, I'll go out there and fight for my "dear little nation", but be [rest assured] that I will forever be a mercenary than [a patriot]. ❋ Merc Julian (2004)

He was mercenarial in his [profit] [strategy]. ❋ Gpathom (2016)

[Mercenary]: I [get to] [kill] you for money. N.K. dude: Im so ronry... ❋ Dirty Ape (2005)

"Don't come for [Mercy Eke], her [Mercenaries] are always on guard" "he had planned to [seize] power with the aid of a group of [mercenaries]" ❋ Duchess Eddie (2021)

Dude 1: Heard you asked [Trina] out last week. Dude2: Yeah, asked me if I owned my own home. I said "No", she said "[wrong answer]", and that I was "too poor". Dude1: Whoa! That's harsh. Dude2: Yeah, that bitch is a total mercenary. Thinks her [pussy's] made of gold. ❋ Bulldog6 (2009)

[Boba Fett] is a mercenary. ❋ L33T G8M3R (2003)