Sentence examples for for profiteering from inspiring English sources

Had this stunt been tried back in 1944, the firms' excessive profits would have been confiscated and their top executives jailed for profiteering.

WHEN finance is not being blamed for wrecking the economy, it is being attacked for profiteering.

An enraged French customer, having paid a hundred and five dollars for a single melon, sued the store for profiteering.

Nor is he immune to paydays from the entertainment companies he browbeats for profiteering from cultural sewage.

Maine has adopted a law that gives the state authority to negotiate discounted prices on drugs, and the right to prosecute companies for profiteering.

He liked them to need him, and he had already claimed under oath that he had bribed Stevens's son, Ben, a former state senator with a reputation for profiteering from government contracts his father had a hand in.

But the convention was losing sponsors and participants right up to its opening day because of accusations from other Tea Party groups that Tea Party Nation, which is unapologetically for-profit, was profiteering.

Earlier this month, Mr Boutros-Ghali, the nephew of the former UN secretary-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali, was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in jail for corruption, profiteering and abusing state and private assets.

However I am not for companies profiteering from this highly vulnerable challenge.

The company says it is essential for energy firms - often accused of profiteering and misleading customers - to be honest about future bills.

Because abuses are so rife, even more modest measures could make a big difference, including by cracking down on rip-off for-profit colleges, subduing profiteering private lenders, providing sufficient funding for public universities and community colleges, refinancing loans and providing more generous federal grants.