Why are mercenariness not entering the area to find him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [For $25 Million, No Way, But for $50 Million I’ll Think About It - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

We should accomplish this based upon morality, conscience, patriotism, and integrity, because there have always been athletes who in recent times have been lured by mercenariness, by commercialism, and by greed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cuba: Castro Blames U.S. for Defections] Reference

But having there thus elevated and puffed him up, he again here throws him down to mercenariness and sophistry; nay, to asking money and even to receiving it beforehand, sometimes at the very entrance of his scholar, and otherwhiles after some time past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

This attribution of mercenariness to Burke (who had in fact accepted a small pension from the British government for services rendered, and who had also been the London lobbyist or representative of the colony of New York during his defense of the rights of the American colonists) is also to be found in the work of Thomas Paine and Dr. Joseph Priestley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reactionary Prophet] Reference

To send him any thing in return would be to reflect suspicion of mercenariness upon what I know he meant a freewill offering.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference

Oh, weariness of man's spirit before that unresting mercenariness in high places, which neither, when his race clamored for justice, nor when it languished for pity, would listen without hire!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference

As the circumstances of the case and the motives of the parties are unknown to me, and as a biographer ought not to take the same liberties as a novelist, I shall neither expatiate on the fickleness and mercenariness of woman, nor attempt to describe the feelings of our unfortunate hero robbed of his ideal, but leave the reader to make his own reflections and draw his own moral.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

On the other hand, the feeling that one is one of the elect leads only too readily to presumption; the power which is associated with ecclesiastical officialism leads to domination, and even, in certain circumstances, to mercenariness (1 Pet.v. 2; 1 Tim. iii.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Johannine Writings] Reference

He was not deterred by Bahá’u’lláh’s upright and independent attitude which contrasted so sharply with the mercenariness of the Persian princes who were wont, on their arrival, to “solicit at every door such allowances and gifts as they might obtain.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [God Passes By] Reference