Sentence examples for a profiteering from inspiring English sources

Mounce says that RIO is a for-profit operation, but not a profiteering one.

The truth of the matter is Eric Corley is a "profiteering glutton," using Kevin Mitnick's misfortune for his own personal benefit and profit".

The building's state was not the handiwork of a profiteering landlord.

Teaching is a vocation of service, and teachers need to know that their school is not being driven by a profiteering idealist.

Or, like so many exiles, he could have shifted gears and decided to exploit the mess as a profiteering politician or businessman — there were offers.

She marries and divorces, becomes entrapped by a profiteering medical consortium, gets involved with a "rangy and dangerous" alcoholic, gives birth to two daughters and battles midlife sorrow.

A Hollywood script has a predictable role for a corporate executive: He's a greedy, profiteering lout, likely to resort to murder to further his aims.

Jeong-hoon warned Hyun-jun of a war profiteering organization known as IRIS, a force that had long existed to create political turmoil to profit from a country's strife and his counter-agency that opposes them.

The United States still faces a hostile regime ruled by ayatollahs and protected by a brutal, profiteering Revolutionary Guard — tough enough to have weathered its own Egyptian-style uprising in 2009.

Romm adeptly expounds the puzzle of the philosopher's life: Seneca, revered for centuries as a pristine moral voice, was despised by many contemporaries as a hypocritical, profiteering lackey.

How can anyone justify, in the 21st century, the looting of Greek treasure by a greedy, profiteering British aristocrat, 210 years ago?