Sentence examples for of pecuniary from inspiring English sources

They are also in the kidnapping business, with a mix of pecuniary and ideological motives.

It is true in terms of pecuniary costs and opportunity costs.

Such people are hell to live with under the best of circumstances, and in times of pecuniary crisis they're unbearable.

It's a similar story with the register of pecuniary interests, where members of parliament and senators are required to disclose gifts, positions in companies, investments, and other things.

It was not primarily the working conditions of the slave, with a lack of pecuniary reward and a vulnerability to violence that most incensed anti-slavery crusaders.

If Romberg's remarks appear cynical it is because we assume that dedications, particularly those between composers, are not sources of pecuniary profit but "expressions of respect".

Moscow, however, was eager to have its own patriarch, and it took advantage of the pecuniary needs of the patriarchs of Antioch and Constantinople to suggest that, in exchange for giving them financial support, Moscow be given a patriarch.

The challenge of the Land Court as the court of first instance regardless of the pecuniary jurisdiction, only depends on the mercies of the ward tribunals.

As the second stone fleet sailed south in January, the Whalemen's Shipping List published a report stating that 1861 had been a year "of unparalleled pecuniary hardship" owing to the replacement of whale oil with petroleum and kerosene.

It's not only Blair who's raking it in Tony Blair has come in for much stick recently on account of the pecuniary rewards he is reaping out of office.

IT'S just that kind of unabashedly pecuniary logic that has caused three of the country's large ballet companies -- New York City Ballet, Houston Ballet and San Francisco Ballet -- to decide against the sponsorship of individual dancers.