Sentence examples for war entrepreneurs from inspiring English sources

DUBAI — Not long ago, Mohammed Daoud was making good money hiring out halls for wedding parties thrown by a new class of Afghan war entrepreneurs.

Family founder Henry Howard Houston (1820-1895) was one of America's greatest post-Civil War entrepreneurs, a top executive of the Pennsylvania Railroad as well as a leading speculator in oil, mining, and other railroad ventures.

As the muckraking historian Matthew Josephson wrote during the Depression in his book "The Robber Barons," objections to the ethics of post-Civil War entrepreneurs like Jim Fisk and Jay Gould were countered by the observation that they were "smart men".

Even scientists who are fighting for reform are often not aware of the roots of the system: how, in the boom years after the second world war, entrepreneurs built fortunes by taking publishing out of the hands of scientists and expanding the business on a previously unimaginable scale.

It is a departure from the mindset that depict most people in the former Yugoslavia as either blind followers of ethnic war entrepreneurs or as intrinsically motivated for violence by deep-rooted intra-ethnic loyalties and inter-ethnic animosities.

Instead, it lost its way to war entrepreneurs, careerists and yea-sayers.

If you have the better product, why not knuckle up and go to war?" Entrepreneur: "Ummm".

War veteran, entrepreneur, mentor and patriarch.

For most of the post-war period entrepreneurs were all but banished from economics.

B1 The Aftermath of War AN ENTREPRENEUR -- When American bombs struck a canyon in northern Afghanistan, they created an avalanche of boulders that blocked the road below.

Mr. Singer was a Holocaust survivor, a veteran of the Korean War, an entrepreneur, a marathon runner, and a collector of antique automobiles; his son said appropriately, at his father's funeral service, "My Father embodied the American Dream".