Sentence examples for they were profiting from inspiring English sources

But the special interests wouldn't make campaign contributions unless they were profiting from the public treasury.

"I'm not saying that their hearts genuinely lifted at the sight of our arrival, but they were profiting from our presence," Mr. Horovitz writes about that expedition.

Marques has alleged that the generals and company directors were complicit in the violence because they were profiting from blood diamonds and did nothing to stop the bloodshed.

The case against Dotcom and his allies rests on proving that they were profiting, knowingly and willingly, from the illegal sharing of copyright-protected material – in effect, that the exchange of pirated goods was part of the Megaupload business model.

Mr. de Villepin is accused of failing to stop a conspiracy in 2004 to defame Mr. Sarkozy and other politicians with falsified documents indicating that they were profiting from arms kickbacks.

Mr. Califano sent letters this week to senior officials of Google, Yahoo and MSN asserting that they were "profiting from advertisements for illegal sales of controlled prescription drugs online," and calling for stronger action.

"They are profiting off the crisis that they subsidized with their most profitable pill, OxyContin," it reads.

"If they're profiting from it," he said, "then they're associated".

They are profiting from the law; the people who make the music are not.

Eventually they caved and offered open, unencrypted MP3s in the last year or two, and now they're profiting again.

The pointed comment seems intended to show they are profiting as middlemen, not as prop-trading bettors.