Sentence examples for pecuniary from inspiring English sources

"Each week the commission receives complaints involving persons employed by large public-sector departments who are alleged to be fully employed by the department concerned, yet also have a direct pecuniary interest in a private business that has a substantial contract with the department," Latham said.

The prime minister's pecuniary interest register does not list his daughter's scholarship.

"Ministers must have regard to the pecuniary and other private interests of members of their immediate families, to the extent known to them, as well as their own interests, in considering whether a conflict or apparent conflict between private interests and official duty arises," the standards say.

OF THE numerous controversial theories about the workings of stockmarkets, few have had a bigger pecuniary impact than a marriage between the notion of efficient markets and a legal principle known as "fraud-on-the-market".

Yet bizarrely, perhaps, a new study by the government of President Álvaro Uribe claims that there may be just 125 hostages still being held for ransom, be that pecuniary or political.Officials from Fondelibertad, the government's anti-kidnap agency, have combed through the cases of the 3,307 kidnaps since 1996 that are officially still unresolved.

FOR the average Indian-restaurant diner, aesthetic considerations perhaps weigh less heavily than alcoholic or pecuniary ones.

Few demands, other than pecuniary ones, are made on Soka Gakkai's followers, who are taught to attain enlightenment and prosperity through chanting sacred phrases handed down from a 13th-century monk called Nichiren.

Here there may be a happy congruence of society's need for more volunteers and the non-pecuniary benefits for individuals who step forward.

There may be a happy congruence of society's need for more volunteers and the non-pecuniary benefits for the individual Nesta, the innovation incubator and funder, sees greater involvement of volunteers in the provision of public services as a means of making them "people-powered".

It added: "The finding of a violation constitutes in itself sufficient just satisfaction for any non-pecuniary damage sustained by the applicants …".

Perhaps non-pecuniary aid like food would deliver safer returns with a lower risk of unintended side-effects?