Sentence examples for analysis of usury from inspiring English sources
On usury see generally J. T. Noonan, The Scholastic Analysis of Usury (l957); R. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (l926); R. Tawney's Introduction to T. Wilson, A Discourse upon Usury (1925); B. Nelson, The Idea of Usury (1949).
John Noonan has shown how Church doctrine developed in areas like usury (see his book, "The Scholastic Analysis of Usury").
THE Medicis made their money out of banking and then, to atone for the sin of usury, financed the Renaissance.
Today, we see the popular suspicion of usury returning with our renewed hatred of the bankers.
(Think of Pound trying to explicate the finer points of usury in the "Cantos").
The ancient problem of "usury," in the form of the exploitation of the ignorant poor by moneylenders, is still important in many parts of the world.
She gave a minitutorial about the history of usury laws, and about how credit card disclosures had become a tool for gouging customers.
The party denounces exorbitant interest rates charged on the debt of our country, and Islam is against the practice of usury".
"Up to the present," it states, "they are the masters of usury and leaders of sexual exhibitionism and prostitution".
British sharia isn't about chopping off hands, but complicated financial instruments to avoid sin of usury.
A 2006 statement from Zawahiri did include a reference to something, unspecified, that Franklin said about the evils of usury.
