It seems very mercenary to charge your guests for their dinner and drinks. From LearnThat.org.
TED KOPPEL: They don't like the term mercenary at Blackwater USA. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwater: In Iraq to Stay?] Reference
And Brody as an ex-military turned mercenary is laughable. From Wordnik.com. [Predators Featurette: Spotlight on Royce | /Film] Reference
Why is the word mercenary considered politically incorrect?. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Clearly, I understand the meaning and history of the word mercenary. From Wordnik.com. [The Clog] Reference
It's hard for the ones with some education, which, to be mercenary, is who this book is targeted at. From Wordnik.com. [intertribal: escapism as a luxury] Reference
For many today, the mere term mercenary evokes inevitably the image of individual "soldiers of fortune" and other "dogs of war". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwater: Mercenaries without borders] Reference
The word mercenary is a term of art, and Blackwater doesn’t qualify. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Blackwater and the Debate over Privatization:] Reference
Which classes him as a mercenary, which is why we are reading this file. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Madonna] Reference
Should not all they be called mercenary who are always seeking consolations?. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Book II: Admonitions Concerning the Inner Life. Of the Fewness of those who love the Cross of Jesus] Reference
I wonder of Thompson asked her how her son’s career as a mercenary is going. sangfroid826 Says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Tea Party Time] Reference
It just all sounds a bit mercenary, which isn't how you come across when you're not writing about men. From Wordnik.com. [What A Girl Wants] Reference
Our so-called mercenary all-volunteer army is full of young men and women who enlisted for mixed motives. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Interviewed on the CBC programme, EO commander Stephen Barlow objected to being called a mercenary leader. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
How'd She Die: She was executed by Martin Keamy after Benjamin Linus foolishly called the mercenary's bluff. From Wordnik.com. [LOST IN NUMBERS: Twenty-Three Dead Characters That Should Return For The Final Season Of ‘Lost’ » MTV Movies Blog] Reference
The people of Szech'wan, compared with other Yangtze provinces, must be called a mercenary, if a go-ahead, one. From Wordnik.com. [Across China on Foot] Reference
I am known as a mercenary woman, and until we marry and give up the money, everybody will think scornfully of me. From Wordnik.com. [Red Money] Reference
Could he be called mercenary whom a high sense of honor had forbidden to assist me in the investment of my property?. From Wordnik.com. [A Romantic Young Lady] Reference
The commando, described as a mercenary, had fled Moheli in a motorized dinghy and and was looking for fuel in Anjouan on. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The cornerstone of his and your argument is that Mr. Marris is a mercenary, which is an incorrect and derogatory statement. From Wordnik.com. [The Clog] Reference
It has worked for the governments of Angola and Sierra Leone but is sensitive about being classified as a mercenary outfit. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Spicer, who despises being called a mercenary, found himself outside the boundaries of respectable Private Military Company. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
But for a player to accept a contract he is offered by his employer and then be accused of being a mercenary is a misplaced criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk] Reference
No one had used the word mercenary, of course. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
OpEdNews - Quicklink: CheneyBush's "mercenary" legions. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: CheneyBush's "mercenary" legions] Reference
Toward an accountability-based definition of "mercenary". From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Privatising war] Reference
He also rejected the use of the term "mercenary" to describe Blackwater. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
America, BR (before Rumsfeld), was never in its history a 'mercenary' country. From Wordnik.com. [RUMSFELD PRIVATIZES MILITARY, THEN QUITS] Reference
Polish Committee in Warsaw who should apply the epithet 'mercenary' to the Polish soldiers. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
And I don't mean an opportunity for a business perspective or in some kind of mercenary way. From Wordnik.com. [Being James Cameron] Reference
Without throwing around words like "mercenary" Deborah Avant is among the brightest thinkers on this issue. From Wordnik.com. [Lorelei Kelly: Privatizing National Security: The Conservative Blind Spot] Reference
We lost track of one another until one day I got an email from him saying he'd decided to become a "mercenary". From Wordnik.com. [Nick Bicanic: Shadow Company: The Road to the Senate] Reference
His distinguished kinsman, the connoisseur, scorns him as a kind of mercenary, or at least a manner of renegade. From Wordnik.com. [The Collectors] Reference
"Probably of every folk and race in the world, if I know the kind of mercenary who hires out for this sort of dirty work," Conan said. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Mists of Door]
He'd coordinate it from the village of Anserma, which was in the center of the area in which the "mercenary" teams seemed to be operating. From Wordnik.com. [Clear and Present Danger]
First of all, look up "mercenary" in the dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
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