Sentence examples for profiteers of from inspiring English sources

That which can make a profit is given over to the spivs and profiteers of the private sector, while the rest of us carry the can for the bits of the economy that can't make a profit, thus threatening not only the particular services involved, but also the cohesion and unity of society as a whole.

Of the for-profit colleges, this official said, "They are nothing short of war profiteers of the worst order.

So: shoe manufacturers — profiteers of the Great War.

The entire industry, as Treasury adviser Shriti Vadera put it in 2001, is peopled by "thinly capitalised … profiteers of the worst kind".

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One of the biggest property profiteers of the Rent Act of 1957, was Peter Rachman, a dead Pole, who, when alive, provided presents to Christine Keeler's friend Many Rice-Davies.

Hewlett-Packard has admitted to creating and using slush funds for bribes, money laundering, and clandestine "bag of cash" handoffs in order to profiteer off of lucrative government contracts in Russia, Poland, and Mexico, according to court documents.

Smart, long-shot campaigns around things like lifting the minimum wage, taxing corporations, getting private profiteers out of health-are and – heck, yes – even bringing US troops back from Iraq and Afghanistan (not just recycling them as private contractors).

But ultimately, what was offensive about it is people who profiteered off of the disaster, and that's what the scene's about.

Still, people in other states say California is failing to hold up its end of a long-running bargain, even as its governor, Gray Davis, blamed "out-of-state profiteers" for driving up the price of electricity and pushing the state to the brink of crisis.

But war profiteer of the year must be that Chomsky of the multiplex, Adam Sandler.