How To Use Mercenary In A Sentence

He is a South African mercenary and one of my best friends. Times, Sunday Times
JOHANNESBURG - South African police said they were searching for an alleged British mercenary freed on bail after being charged with the murders of two black men near Johannesburg. ANC Daily News Briefing
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
The generous outreach to Sunnis is widely viewed as a profound betrayal by Bahrain's rulers and feeds Shiite perceptions of second-class status and being under siege from what they call a "mercenary" security force. The Seattle Times
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Because, Tremain thought, I'm a mercenary thug who used the word amoral? A Maiden's Grave
He was a mercenary, a criminal, an international careerist. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
The player is always a soldier, a mercenary on the player's base.
A mercenary spaceship ferrying a convict is attacked by a horde of unidentified fighter craft. Filmstalker: The Planet trailer online - Scottish Sci-Fi
At a more mercenary level, poor communication skills have been shown to be a predictor of medicolegal vulnerability and also of burnout. 2,3 The Values and Ethics of Euthanasia : Law is Cool
It becomes an authentic spiritual experience only if it is totally free from selfish and mercenary interests on the part of those who facilitate it.
That deadly combination has let loose a wave of vengeance killings, tribal vendettas, mercenary kidnappings and thievery.
What we don't want is a foreign mercenary. The Sun
Not unconnected with these two mercenary characters are the Cohens, the family with whom the saintly Mordecai lodges.
An ex-mercenary with special 'psychological chameleon' type abilities to blend in locally, is now hired to find out why an incredibly wealthy functionally immortal man was killed. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
THE wife of a British mercenary accused of an African coup plot yesterday told of her fears. The Sun
She's interested in him for purely mercenary reasons.
An inequality of years so considerable, had led him to expect that the fortune he had thus acquired, would speedily be released from the burthen with which it was at present incumbered; but his expectations proved as vain as they were mercenary, and his lady was not more the dupe of his protestations than he was himself of his own purposes. Cecilia
Rathi Intimidator can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and black creatures. 2, T: Search your library for a Mercenary card with converted mana cost 2 or less and put that card into play.
Why should the Isreali soldiers who were brutally attacked by a bunch of mercenary thugs be satisfied with anything other than the trial and imprisonment of those who were not already killed in flagrante delicto? The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
That sounds mercenary and self-serving; it smacks too much of self-advancement. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
It splintered into hundreds of competing chieftainships, all led by infantes claiming descent from Afonso I, all variously cooperative or mercenary, and all dependent on the slave trade for their survival.
Consider what dilution might occur in amicus work if it were to be more mercenary in an untenured world. Balkinization
It'll probably be merchandised like hell, but it definitely feels less mercenary than a lot of other children's entertainment.
UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves picks up the story of Nathan Drake, a fortune hunter with a shady reputation and an even shadier past who is lured back into the treacherous world of thieves and mercenary treasure-seekers. Shambhala SunSpace » Rod Meade Sperry – From The Worst Horses Mouth
Their pleasures gave but a pinchbeck joviality after all, were but a thin lacker spread over mercenary cares and heart-aching jealousies -- not the jealousies of passion, but the nipping vulgar vexation with which a shopkeeper trembles lest a customer should go to his rival over the way. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
Born in London the posthumous son of a clergyman and trained by his stepfather as a bricklayer, Jonson became a mercenary, then an actor and leading playwright.
You know, these men are over there and women are over there as volunteers, but they're not over there as mercenary volunteers.
Luke's innocence and virtuousness are emphasized in comparison to Hans' rugged masculine physical appearance, his morally ambiguous occupation and mercenary ideologies.
Less forgivable than the unaesthetic are the mercenary. The Golden Poppy
Military skills are a vital part of being a mercenary, but the successful mercenary needs other skills that the average squaddie never picks up during his military career.
You're a mercenary and you kill people with laser guns!
The private military industry has an image problem reducible to a single, rather dirty word: mercenary.
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
On the one hand, temple police functioned as a small mercenary army to protect the temple precincts.
Catching a mercenary's outstretched torso with the broad surface of his shield, the Colonel hurled his adversary high overhead.
This last but one looks increasingly jaded, cynical and mercenary. Times, Sunday Times
Six years ago, he became a mercenary for a private military corporation.
The first, clause 7, relates to recruiting a person to be a mercenary, and I guess that is something.
He brought his elbow up sharply into the Hythrun's face and then kicked the stunned mercenary's legs from under him. TREASON KEEP
In Italy the employment of mercenary companies became endemic, as the tyrants like the Visconti needed to employ these mercenary armies to prop themselves up - and that in a way was the cradle of the Renaissance.
No doubt the bowman is a mercenary hired by my former Sergeant-of-Arms.
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
And in their 2009 report the Working Group noted: the Working Group recognizes that whilst the Convention remains the only universal instrument dedicated to addressing mercenarism, many activities performed by private military and security companies under government contracts do not easily fall within the definition of "mercenary" as set out in the Convention. David Isenberg: It All Depends on What You Mean by Regulation
By the term mercenary, I don't mean ruthless and cold killing for a buck. GreenCine Daily
I am placing an ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine to hire a mercenary to kill me at this very moment.
Maddock's horse balked and reared as a mercenary snatched at its reins.
He was actually a privateer, a mercenary licensed by the government to loot merchant ships flying the colors of England's enemies -- mainly France and Spain," explained Wareham.
When the public purse snapped shut, they resorted to ever more mercenary ways of earning a crust.
If this is so it is quite possible they are mercenary bowmen from eastern Europe, and these archers are known to have used horn and sinew shortbows.
Richardson pits this code explicitly against Matilda's nefarious campaign to sign Gerald on as her personal mercenary.
A lighter-weight dress sword with unusual gilt on the blade, it might possibly have belonged to the swashbuckling mercenary.
What we don't want is a foreign mercenary. The Sun
I enjoy being totally mercenary about supporting people I like in print.
She married him for purely mercenary reasons because she was a single mother with no means of support.
He was a mercenary, a criminal, an international careerist. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
His actions are entirely mercenary.
It has a quality of defiant freedom, of unmercenary and anonymous endeavour. Times, Sunday Times
I don't mean to mischaracterize what you're saying, but it makes it sound like Americans are very mercenary.
This design could not long escape the penetration of the Gothic king, who continued to hold a doubtful, and perhaps a treacherous, correspondence with the rival courts; who protracted, like a dissatisfied mercenary, his languid operations in Thessaly and Epirus, and who soon returned to claim the extravagant reward of his ineffectual services. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
They are both mercenary worlds where relationships are only relative to the next rung on the ladder of success.
And Brody as an ex-military turned mercenary is laughable. Predators Featurette: Spotlight on Royce | /Film
In essence, the Glorious Revolution was a coup d'état undertaken by an adventurous foreign prince and his mercenary army, supported by local aristocracies, not an uprising of ‘the people’.
The Romans always recognized the uselessness of mercenary and auxiliary troops.
If Nancy comes across as too mercenary, her situation must be understood.
Before the state commission army, forces were assembled from diverse sources, including mercenary bands and irregular bodies of troops raised by local nobles.
He says, "German ritter, a rider, i.e. a trooper," and quotes from Halliwell, "rutter, a rider, a trooper, from the German; a name given to mercenary soldiers engaged from Brabant, etc. The Romance of Names
Of course, the spirit of these themes remains very much present in BUNSHINSABA, named for a particular mercenary haint summoned by a troubled schoolgirl Lee Se-eun who is bullied mercilessly after moving from Seoul to the superstition-hagged Korean provinces. Learn Witch Learn
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.
It's hard for the ones with some education, which, to be mercenary, is who this book is targeted at. Intertribal: escapism as a luxury
I'll be mercenary and mention that it gives me a much needed royalty from the sale that doesn't come from used books. Vamps on BBC Radio!
He wrote a book called Cut-Throat, the true story of his uncle, the gangster, mercenary, drug-smuggler and gun-runner Rod McLean, who was married to his father's sister Susan. The brothel paid for my school fees
She is the first who has redeemed the name of sutler from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness and plunder, and I trust that England will not forget the one who nursed her sick and who sought out her wounded to aid and succor them and who performed the last office for some of her illustrious dead. World’s Great Men of Color
When the public purse snapped shut, they resorted to ever more mercenary ways of earning a crust.
Sekules eventually left the sport behind, increasingly disgusted at the mercenary amorality of the businessmen and shysters behind the scenes.
Machiavelli laments the decline of the Italian city-states and attributes it to the use of mercenary and auxiliary armies instead of native forces.
Fox "News" has long been a fomenter of violent crime, encouraging the tin-foil hat crowd to embark on mercenary missions to take out liberals and other normal, thinking people in waves of violent crimes in churches, woman's health clinics, and pretty much anywhere they find them, and this was true of the so-called witless tea party protests of Obama's tax reform plan. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
Bought with a flag's delicious hanch The mercenary wolf was ftanch: Fables by the Late Mr. Gay. In One Volume Complete
Great victory at CRÉCY, near Ponthieu in northern France, where English longbowmen, supported by dismounted horsemen, routed the undisciplined cavalry and mercenary crossbowmen ofFrance. B. The British Isles
He had some mercenary scheme to marry a wealthy widow.
He's first seen down-and-out, with a scraggly beard and out of work until his old mercenary buddy Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard.
Most of those that did survive, along with many of King Harold's thegns, seem to have crossed to the continent as mercenary troops.
Live life for God and our motives are no longer mercenary, and our life is not founded on an ignoble base.
The Working Group recognizes that whilst the Convention remains the only universal instrument dedicated to addressing mercenarism, many activities performed by private military and security companies under government contracts do not easily fall within the definition of "mercenary" as set out in the Convention. David Isenberg: It All Depends on What You Mean by Regulation
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
Being in the Army, the mercenary had maps of every conceivable place on the planet.
We tend to be rather mercenary when it comes to shrubberies. M Bastard 6 : Bev Vincent
In these games you play as Bolton on a world tour as a mercenary for hire.
He had some mercenary scheme to marry a wealthy widow.
An e-mail arrives announcing a campaign to tackle mercenary claims handlers. Times, Sunday Times
'That would not signify so much,' said Carr, 'if the man was honest; but I may say to you, that, under the most specious professions of honesty, I don't believe there is a more crafty or mercenary head in Westminster Hall, than that orange tawny caxon his covers. The Old Manor House
The once seamless constitution of the United Kingdom - the product of a millennium of political evolution - has been shredded by this adventurer and his gang of mercenary barrow boys, so that it is now reduced to incoherence.
As a mercenary and reaver he should not have any qualms as the gold trickled into his pockets, the gold of blood-letting.
These cameras may have been launched with improved road safety in mind but they've been hijacked for mercenary reasons.
Remember, this is Monbiot, a serious analyst of anthropogenic global warming, not Bjorn Lomborg or a mercenary from the Heartland Institute. SolveClimate: Biochar and George Monbiot’s Misguided Rant
`Word amongst the mercenary fraternity in New York is that he's already left for Bosnia, j Amaya said. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
The Hunter is an account of a corporately funded mercenary and his pursuit of a mythic thylacine - a Tasmanian Tiger.
Once Alexander had destroyed the professional core of Persians and mercenary Greeks at Issus, Darius had to rely on levies from outlying satrapies.
THE wife of a British mercenary accused of an African coup plot yesterday told of her fears. The Sun
Incapable of finding any satisfaction in mercenary intrigues, they succumb to an indefinable sort of languor, which is called home-sickness, though, in reality, love with them is indissolubly associated with their native village, with its steeple and vesper bells, and with the familiar scenes of home. Recollections of My Youth
Well, I don't know much about him, except that he's a hunter, a woodsman, and a mercenary.
This all says in advance okay, she occupies to the megalith mountain range, impossibly all and the mercenary soldier regiment is together ignorant.
The connection isn't made explicit, but the time of Carlos, the international mercenary, is over, and that of Bin Laden, the theoretician, is just beginning. Carlos director Olivier Assayas on the terrorist who became a pop culture icon
And it's surely no coincidence that this most overtly mercenary of musical forms springs from an urban area lying only a few miles from Hollywood where the global entertainment industry is headquartered.
Any scurrile pamphlet is welcome to our mercenary stationers in Anatomy of Melancholy
James is so mercenary that he'd turn in his own mother for the reward money.
Also notable, if you will, are ‘When in doubt, do nowt’ (great moral support for procrastinators) and the mercenary ‘Never do owt for nowt’.
That was a mercenary term for a poker game with fake chips, one just played for relaxation.
Wigan's improvement since losing their first two matches has been both remarkable and romantic - a heart-warming tale of homespun success in these increasingly mercenary times.
Early in the action the eponymous hero, a Scottish mercenary soldier, is sentenced to be hanged.
Added to that, guns, machine-guns, rifles, and ammunition, were run over into the plebiscite area, and a mercenary "insurrectionary" army was raised, partly from the local Polish population and partly from Poland proper. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
MORONI: French mercenary Bob Denard said he was negotiating his surrender after French special forces invaded the Comorian capital of Moroni at dawn. ANC Daily News Briefing
Feigned unwillingness or indifference in obedience to such advice may perhaps be called coyness, but it is only a coarse primitive phase of that attitude, based on sordid, mercenary motives, whereas true modern coyness consists in an impulse, grounded in modesty, to conceal affection. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
My father had no time for Ansgar, just because he had been a mercenary and a common soldier.
As our viewpoint character she is the most stable and sympathetic person in the film, and yet she is almost completely mercenary, serving no code but her own desires and whims.
The situation reminds us of fifteenth-century Italy, where casualty-averse mercenary condottieri conducted protracted and nearly bloodless warfare.
And yet their aims are no less self-serving and their interests no less mercenary than those of any other union.
The mercenary, too, could not hide his surprise.
All those mercenary adventurers who, as we know, are called sophist by the multitude, and regarded as rivals, really teach nothing but the opinions of the majority to which expression is given when large masses are collected, and dignify them with the title of wisdom. Human Traits and their Social Significance
For better or worse, with sincerity or mercenary attachment, the hip musical climate was heavily involved.
Critics say he is a mercenary and a poor trainer, but there have been flashes of class in his brief appearances in claret and amber.
Canadians, I truly believe, are not mercenary beings.
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.
As a result, Langley has a revengeful trait of character and a mercenary streak.
An investor is very much afraid of the slow and mercenary courts, and of the factors of corruption and crime.
Fox "News" has long been a fomenter of violent crime, encouraging the tin-foil hat crowd to embark on mercenary missions to take out liberals and other normal, thinking people in waves of violent crimes in churches, woman's health clinics, and pretty much anywhere they find them, and this was true of the so-called witless tea party protests of Obama's tax reform plan. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
They were, essentially, already regular armies, but depended for manpower acquisition on mercenary recruitment.
He's first seen down-and-out, with a scraggly beard and out of work until his old mercenary buddy Rayburn gets him a job as a bodyguard.
The damage to the intellectual and moral fabric of society resulting from such a mercenary and philistine approach is impossible to quantify.
His Rotarian dreams are crushed, however, when his mercenary business partner squeezes him out of the property he planned to develop. ISAAC CAMPION
In Warheads, while demonstrating irritant-gas, a mercenary trainer tells the film team: ‘The stink is so strong, you'll get a whiff of it too’.
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
His father was a bullying adventurer who earned a precarious living as a mercenary soldier and deserted the family when Johannes was 17.
`Word amongst the mercenary fraternity in New York is that he's already left for Bosnia, j Amaya said. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
Talk about good times for it's mercenary culture.
mercenary killers
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.
This divide and rule policy has been as crudely mercenary as it has been undemocratic.
She takes to the blade with astounding speed and then attempts to join Guiscard's mercenary company as a soldier. Archive 2010-03-01
Or was I supposed to think that she was cold, uncaring and mercenary in crediting his novel as her own work, and pocketing all the money?
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.
Only a cynic would dare suggest it is anything but coincidence in this mercenary age of cash comes first. The Sun
In his writing on India, Marx shows himself under no illusions concerning the brutal and mercenary nature of British rule.
But when a product is found to be dangerous, companies and their lawyers increasingly have been turning to what I call mercenary scientists, researchers who will produce the studies needed to question scientific findings suggesting increased risk. Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
The locations in England and Jordan are garbage-strewn, skuzzy and glamourless, a comment on the grubbiness of private-contractor mercenary work and the shadowy corporate/government power systems that employ it. StarTribune.com rss feed
In case that sounds completely mercenary he's also an old friend, and it would be good to see him again.
Virtue flies from the heart of a mercenary man.
Critics called him mercenary and his unhurried, self-possessed manner could make him unfathomable.
Small black and small armor Xi fair outside the tent, before gathered some mercenary soldiers at them, an eyes expose strange light-that is the penurious wind.
The princes of Italy have lost their kingdoms due to their reliance upon mercenary or auxiliary armies.
The profession of mercenary is one of the oldest in the world.
What a mercenary, presumptuous, arrogant young fool. Times, Sunday Times
What a mercenary, presumptuous, arrogant young fool. Times, Sunday Times
TED KOPPEL: They don't like the term mercenary at Blackwater USA. Blackwater: In Iraq to Stay?
But not before John had his fill of mercenary musicianship.
It tells the story of a mercenary who embarks on a journey of self-understanding and self-realization.
We need some magnificent role models, some publishers like the Penguin mogul, Allan Lane, whose motivation was notably described as ‘both missionary and mercenary’. 2009 April « Tales from the Reading Room
To be sure, Bolt had caught the great pike which headed the feast; and Bolt, no doubt, had helped to rear those fine chickens ab ovo; Bolt, I have no doubt, made that excellent Spanish omelette; and, for the rest, the products of the sheepwalk and the garden came in as volunteer auxiliaries, -- very different from the mercenary recruits by which those metropolitan The Caxtons — Volume 10
Eric Roberts plays a hissable former CIA operative (he's so hammy you know he can't be trusted), Mickey Rourke turns up as an ex-mercenary/nonparticipant (via a long monologue, he explains that he left his heart in Bosnia), while Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger appear in cameo roles (the governator has nothing more urgent to occupy his days?). The Seattle Times
Unaccountable to the public -- except those in agribusiness -- these agents employ a secret arsenal that would make any mercenary army proud: helicopters, airplanes, guns, poisons, traps, snares, and wildlife-chasing hounds. Wendy Keefover-Ring: Wildlife Services Dodges Disclosure on Animal Killing
a mercenary enterprise
Besides, her object was not purely mercenary.
At first glance, he resembled a truck driver, or perhaps a mercenary soldier.
I communed with myself: By his brow he is a thinker, but his intellect has been prostituted to a mercenary exaction of toll from misery. The Dignity of Dollars
His is a prose that almost palpably exudes probity and decency (a very Orwellian word, that), while his political trajectory - from disaffected Etonian schoolboy, to disaffected imperial policeman, to disaffected dallier in the pays-bas of the Depression, to convinced socialist warrior, to disaffected socialist and anti-communist whistle-blower - also speaks to us of a probity and decency, which all too often seems absent from our mercenary, venal and debauched age. Jura Duty
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 mercenary interests on the part of those who facilitate it.
She was a soldier, a mercenary, a spy on a mission to save the world.
So it's only natural that when they hit too close to home, when they hold a mirror up to the panting demographic and showcase people's reprobate and mercenary nature, the target should retaliate.
Critics called him mercenary and his unhurried, self-possessed manner could make him unfathomable.
The French first sent forward Genoese mercenary crossbowmen, whose weapons, their bowstrings slackened by a shower of rain, proved no match for the English longbows.
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.
Mercenary activities are particularly appealing to people (usually young males) who have difficulty coping with demobilization and who still yearn for a life of excitement.
He is a South African mercenary and one of my best friends. Times, Sunday Times
What happens, chuckie, is ... we just enlarge the contract with Blackwater corp. 'and similar war for profit mercenary private contractors, officially declare American democracy' dead '. and complete America's descent to ignominy. Poll: Nearly Six In 10 Back Congressional Troop Withdrawal Deadline
The mercenary ones simply put up with them and pretend that they love them for what they can get out of them.
The heyday of the unscrupulous mercenary type dawned when the colonial powers pulled out of Africa leaving chaos behind.
‘The exercise originated from frustration with ‘reliables’ who were continually being arrested for embroilments in trivial crimes and causing delay in our mercenary objectives.
The Romans always recognized the uselessness of mercenary and auxiliary troops.
She is the first who has redeemed the name of "sutler" from the suspicion of worthlessness, mercenary baseness, and plunder; and I trust that England will not forget one who nursed her sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
While the doings of ‘private contractors’ still pop up in articles about prisoner abuse, what such mercenary outfits are up to on the home front is hardly ever mentioned.
The detail behind the generalisation is a stint as a partner in Executive Outcomes, a South Africa-based mercenary outfit whose most high-profile alumnus is Simon Mann - the former SAS officer who arrived back in the UK earlier this month after five years locked up in a prison in Equatorial Guinea on charges of involvement in a plot to overthrow the state. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
I am nevertheless slightly discomfited by news that Erik Prince, the former SEAL officer and founder of Blackwater, is now in the process of assembling a mercenary battalion for the United Arab Emirates. David Isenberg: PMC und Drang in the Persian Gulf
He became a professional soldier, a mercenary, fighting wars and killing people and being completely detached from it all.
Their main role in Internet chat is to form a mercenary authority infrastructure in otherwise unregulated chat rooms.
It was no longer a home; children were never born and bred there; the fireside had become mercenary — a something to be bought and sold — a very courtezan: let who would die, or sit beside, or leave it, it was still the same — it missed nobody, cared for nobody, had equal warmth and smiles for all. Barnaby Rudge

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