Sentence examples for pecuniary disadvantage from inspiring English sources

So long as the railroad company 'continues to exercise' the privileges conferred by its charter, the state has power to regulate its operations in the interest of the public, and to that end may require it to provide reasonably safe and adequate facilities for serving the public, even though compliance be attended by some pecuniary disadvantage.

It is said that this operates to depreciate the pecuniary value of the property belonging to the plaintiffs in error, but a similar result would follow if other limits were prescribed, and therefore the power to prescribe limits could never be exercised, because, whatever the limits, it might operate to the pecuniary disadvantage of some property holders.

But if a pecuniary answer can't fix the structural disadvantage — and it can't — what can? Thanks to a compromise between Southern slaveholders who wanted enslaved blacks counted in the population, for the sake of boosting Southern congressional representation, and Northern whites who didn't, the framers enshrined the three-fifths clause in the Constitution.

•     Gain a pecuniary advantage.

Gain a pecuniary advantage.

Others may be lured by pecuniary rewards.

All pecuniary aid will be thankfully received.

These network effects can be disaggregated to pecuniary and non-pecuniary effects.

But the English legal system has other pecuniary advantages.

On one pecuniary matter, however, Mr. Catsimatidis was quite clear.

Work matters more for psychological reasons than pecuniary ones.