Sentence examples for some profiteering from inspiring English sources
You'd think some profiteering schemes are too sick even for Wall Street.
Therefore, the growing narrative insinuating some deceptive, profiteering motives with regards to user data does not resonate with me.
Obama administration officials declined to characterize the causes of these gaping disparities in price, leaving unclear whether they reflect some form of malevolence -- profiteering by some institutions or price-rigging -- or rather more nebulous factors, such as varying estimates about the underlying costs of providing services.
Some called that profiteering.
Lord Loxley (a brilliantly odious Aidan McArdle) was back in town to indulge in some blackmailing, war profiteering and generally opposing the will of his much more sensible wife.
That excuse is not good enough and – given that the Competition and Markets Authority will not rule finally until December on whether there has been profiteering – some kind of action is needed in the meantime.
CEA's motto is "profit, not profiteering".
As Senator Lugar suggested, some nations had secret profiteering reasons to keep Saddam in power.
But judging from recent actions by our own House of Representatives, I question what it means to be all in this together if some of us are profiteering while the rest of us strive to do our best in whatever way we can.
As might be expected, the shortage of masks, whose efficiency in screening out germs is questionable but which clearly provide a psychological relief to a nervous populace, has led to profiteering, with some stores marking up the cost of certain brands to five times their pre-epidemic price.
