Sentence examples for Some pecuniary from inspiring English sources

So long as the railroad company 'continues to exercise' the privileges conferred by its charter, the state has power to regulate its operations in the interest of the public, and to that end may require it to provide reasonably safe and adequate facilities for serving the public, even though compliance be attended by some pecuniary disadvantage.

He made some pecuniary bequests to friends and those who had assisted him in his final illness.

To prove Mr. Gupta committed securities fraud, the government must show that there was a quid pro quo arrangement between the two men in which Mr. Gupta realized some personal or pecuniary benefit.

A typical offender in the UK received a punitive pecuniary sanction, and in some cases also a ban.

Manufacturing jobs are still often treated as "better"—in some vague, non-pecuniary way than paper-pushing is.

Some town officials believe that complaints about legal settlements and development plans mask a pecuniary motivation on the part of some Edgemont residents.

It is a common experience of mankind that pecuniary loss almost invariably causes some form and degree of mental distress". In Stewart v Rudner, 349 Mich 459, 470; 84 NW2d 819571957), this Court said that "all breaches of contract do more or less" cause "vexation and annoyance"; similarly, see Kewin v Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins Co, 409 Mich 401, 417; 295 NW2d 50 (1980).

Is there some merit after all to identifying the "pecuniary externalities" common to all economic activity that are so clearly conceptually inferior to finding the "marginally relevant real externalities" that would provide clearer guidance to enlightened public policy?

In some instances these sales were out of private pecuniary gain.

We now recognize, of course, that they didn't know what they were talking about -- and some were talking prejudicially based on professional and/or pecuniary interests.

Such an analytical approach may have its place when the subject is pecuniary damages, which can be calculated with some precision.