Mercenary

But not before John had his fill of mercenary musicianship.

Not unconnected with these two mercenary characters are the Cohens, the family with whom the saintly Mordecai lodges.

Six years ago, he became a mercenary for a private military corporation.

Talk about good times for it’s mercenary culture.

It’ll probably be merchandised like hell, but it definitely feels less mercenary than a lot of other children’s entertainment.

Last Wednesday demonstrated that we have gone beyond the problems posed by the West Lothian Question proper and are now confronted by a contingent of rogue MPs who are as mercenary as they are unaccountable.

In his writing on India, Marx shows himself under no illusions concerning the brutal and mercenarynature of British rule.

Canadians, I truly believe, are not mercenary beings.

My father had no time for Ansgar, just because he had been a mercenary and a common soldier.

And yet their aims are no less self-serving and their interests no less mercenary than those of any other union.

We positively celebrate mercenary motives these days in most areas of life.

It becomes an authentic spiritual experience only if it is totally free from selfish and mercenaryinterests on the part of those who facilitate it.

I am placing an ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine to hire a mercenary to kill me at this very moment.

I don’t mean to mischaracterize what you’re saying, but it makes it sound like Americans are verymercenary .

I decided I couldn’t be pressed like this, the third job involved no relocation and would be better for my CV, if you want to look at it in purely mercenary terms.

But in this day and age, with so many mercenary lawyers around, talking libel and slander, you cannot even speak ill of the living without caution.

An investor is very much afraid of the slow and mercenary courts, and of the factors of corruption and crime.

They are both mercenary worlds where relationships are only relative to the next rung on the ladder of success.

So right now I have to get the Aberdeen team playing a lot better than they are now, stay around for a while and show that I am a rugby person, and not a mercenary .

Even in this mercenary age, with the entire football agenda being driven by money, that might be too much for the clubs concerned to contemplate.

Richardson pits this code explicitly against Matilda’s nefarious campaign to sign Gerald on as her personal mercenary .

The first, clause 7, relates to recruiting a person to be a mercenary , and I guess that is something.

In case that sounds completely mercenary he’s also an old friend, and it would be good to see him again.

When the public purse snapped shut, they resorted to ever more mercenary ways of earning a crust.

The player is always a soldier, a mercenary on the player’s base.

I enjoy being totally mercenary about supporting people I like in print.

In these games you play as Bolton on a world tour as a mercenary for hire.

The profession of mercenary is one of the oldest in the world.

These cameras may have been launched with improved road safety in mind but they’ve been hijacked for mercenary reasons.