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Sentence Examples Early in the action the eponymous hero, a Scottish mercenary soldier, is sentenced to be hanged together with a group of gypsies. They were, essentially, already regular armies, but depended for manpower acquisition on mercenary recruitment. Arnie's back trying to fulfill his job description as God's faithful mercenary. As a mercenary and reaver he should not have any qualms as the gold trickled into his pockets, the gold of blood-letting. Well, I don't know much about him, except that he's a hunter, a woodsman, and a mercenary. I hope that at worst they are being mercenary and irresponsible and thoughtless. That was a mercenary term for a poker game with fake chips, one just played for relaxation. As a result, Langley has a revengeful trait of character and a mercenary streak. The princes of Italy have lost their kingdoms due to their reliance upon mercenary or auxiliary armies. The Romans always recognized the uselessness of mercenary and auxiliary troops. 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. Critics called him mercenary and his unhurried, self-possessed manner could make him unfathomable. 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. We positively celebrate mercenary motives these days in most areas of life. They are both mercenary worlds where relationships are only relative to the next rung on the ladder of success. These cameras may have been launched with improved road safety in mind but they've been hijacked for mercenary reasons. You know, these men are over there and women are over there as volunteers, but they're not over there as mercenary volunteers. In his writing on India, Marx shows himself under no illusions concerning the brutal and mercenary nature of British rule. Not unconnected with these two mercenary characters are the Cohens, the family with whom the saintly Mordecai lodges. Show More Sentences In case that sounds completely mercenary he's also an old friend, and it would be good to see him again. An investor is very much afraid of the slow and mercenary courts, and of the factors of corruption and crime. I don't mean to mischaracterize what you're saying, but it makes it sound like Americans are very mercenary. She married him for purely mercenary reasons because she was a single mother with no means of support. When the public purse snapped shut, they resorted to ever more mercenary ways of earning a crust. And yet their aims are no less self-serving and their interests no less mercenary than those of any other union. Being in the Army, the mercenary had maps of every conceivable place on the planet. My father had no time for Ansgar, just because he had been a mercenary and a common soldier. I am placing an ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine to hire a mercenary to kill me at this very moment. He became a professional soldier, a mercenary, fighting wars and killing people and being completely detached from it all. 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. Sekules eventually left the sport behind, increasingly disgusted at the mercenary amorality of the businessmen and shysters behind the scenes. 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? This divide and rule policy has been as crudely mercenary as it has been undemocratic. The heyday of the unscrupulous mercenary type dawned when the colonial powers pulled out of Africa leaving chaos behind. That deadly combination has let loose a wave of vengeance killings, tribal vendettas, mercenary kidnappings and thievery. One or two of the more mercenary tour operators have stuck by ludicrous booking conditions. He claims to be mercenary, yet often acts out of character, especially in the third act. Their main role in Internet chat is to form a mercenary authority infrastructure in otherwise unregulated chat rooms. Show More Sentences The opposing forces consisted of the Veronese, led by Giovanni dei Ordelaffi, and the Paduans, under the English mercenary Sir John Hawkwood. 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. Yes, he was a willing mercenary in the pay of the government of Canada and a Crown corporation. Live life for God and our motives are no longer mercenary, and our life is not founded on an ignoble base. The damage to the intellectual and moral fabric of society resulting from such a mercenary and philistine approach is impossible to quantify. A US fighter pilot responsible for the destruction of two airliners, O'Brien is recruited to fly for a mercenary outfit. A lighter-weight dress sword with unusual gilt on the blade, it might possibly have belonged to the swashbuckling mercenary. During the second Punic war between Rome and Carthage, Syracuse was held by the mercenary Hippocrates for the Carthaginians. They are part mercenary and moral crusader, half gung-ho crazies and concerned artists. As a former agent himself, Horrigan hopes to disabuse renters of the notion that brokers are mercenary con artists. Before the state commission army, forces were assembled from diverse sources, including mercenary bands and irregular bodies of troops raised by local nobles. Feudal families held much of the power in an untamed empire of mercenary armies warring for control of small sections of land. Maddock's horse balked and reared as a mercenary snatched at its reins. If Nancy comes across as too mercenary, her situation must be understood. 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. By mid-to-late evening, there was overwhelming evidence that Russia was using a mix of mercenary and conscript forces. She was a soldier, a mercenary, a spy on a mission to save the world. Machiavelli laments the decline of the Italian city-states and attributes it to the use of mercenary and auxiliary armies instead of native forces. Any mercenary who comes after me and mine will pay the ultimate price. The situation reminds us of fifteenth-century Italy, where casualty-averse mercenary condottieri conducted protracted and nearly bloodless warfare. Show More Sentences 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. The profession of mercenary is one of the oldest in the world. 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. In these games you play as Bolton on a world tour as a mercenary for hire. Why, then, does she bother to lecture a blabbermouth like Jaimee Grubbs or any of Tiger's other mercenary mistresses? No doubt the bowman is a mercenary hired by my former Sergeant-of-Arms. 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. I enjoy being totally mercenary about supporting people I like in print. 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. Luke's innocence and virtuousness are emphasized in comparison to Hans' rugged masculine physical appearance, his morally ambiguous occupation and mercenary ideologies. 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. The benefit of technocracy is that it avoids the petty mercenary self-interest of industry players. The scene ends with a Street Fighter-like battle between Captain America and a mercenary. 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. 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. The player is always a soldier, a mercenary on the player's base. Six years ago, he became a mercenary for a private military corporation. A dreamy, blue-eyed rebel is approached by a mercenary wearing a scary mask. Once Alexander had destroyed the professional core of Persians and mercenary Greeks at Issus, Darius had to rely on levies from outlying satrapies. However, at its extreme, this has led to the all-too-familiar deformation of the professional as simply the expert for hire, or another mercenary on the make. Show More Sentences To do that kind of farewell would be mercenary and exploitative. A biotech company wants mercenary animal hunter Martin David to try to find the Tasmanian tiger. The family of Frank Toman recall how they were targeted by close friend Beth Hood in the most mercenary way. He had lost his electorship and his duchy, which was being plundered by the Emperor's mercenary soldiers. The Carthaginians then hired Xanthippus of Carthage, a Spartan mercenary general, to reorganise and lead their army. However, Montrose, who had raised a mercenary force in Norway, had already landed and could not abandon the fight. In 1685 he sent the Scottish and English mercenary regiments of his army to England to assist in putting down the Monmouth Rebellion. Volunteers in the British Legion were motivated by a combination of both genuine political and mercenary motives. If, as Holroyd and others surmise, George's motives were mercenary, then he was disappointed, as Bessie brought him little of her family's money. Parliament managed to negotiate treaties with the princes of German states for large sums of money, in exchange for mercenary troops. Henry and Eleanor mobilised their own supporters and raised a foreign mercenary army. To this exercise they were trained from infancy, in order to earn their livelihood as mercenary soldiers. Armies of the period could be formed from either feudal or mercenary forces. Accompanied by William de Roches, his seneschal in Anjou, he swung his mercenary army rapidly south to protect her. His primary objective was the fortress of Issoudun, which had just been captured by Richard's mercenary commander, Mercadier. From the time of Psammetichus I onwards, Greek mercenary armies played an important role in some of the Egyptian wars. In the Battle of Vaslui, Stephen had to summon the Large Host and also recruited mercenary troops. However, it is most likely that these were individual mercenary bands, not a Hunnish kingdom. By contrast, Europe had moved to 'sporadic' warfare in the Middle Ages due to the availability of professionally mercenary armies. Venice sent a multinational mercenary army which soon regained control of the major cities. Show More Sentences Others choosing to continue a mercenary role escaped control by taking advantage of the large Danube delta. During this time the mercenary pension system became a subject of disagreement. By this time, he had become convinced that mercenary service was immoral and that Swiss unity was indispensable for any future achievements. In addition, his opposition to the French and to mercenary service was welcomed by Zurich politicians. He receives help from an Eastern European prostitute, who he later discovers is undercover mercenary Beth Bailey, also sent to track Abib. He notes that mercenary troops were used too often and proved unreliable. John also began recruiting mercenary forces from France, although some were later sent back to avoid giving the impression that the King was escalating the conflict. However, the trend of employing allied or mercenary troops was expanded such that these troops came to represent a substantial proportion of Rome's forces. The Giantling was furious, but the mercenary turned Lord was not daunted. Refusing to spend the best years of their youth in perpetual fear, the three lads hire covert black ops mercenary Drillbit Taylor as their personal bodyguard. The play, often considered to be a comedy, reverses traditional views on events of the Trojan War and depicts Achilles as a coward, Ajax as a dull, unthinking mercenary, etc. Engaging in trade, piracy and mercenary activities, they roamed the river systems and portages of Gardariki, reaching the Caspian Sea and Constantinople. Campaigns like Edward I of England's wars in Wales might have provided a good opportunity for a younger son of a landholder to become a mercenary soldier. It oversaw the mining of iron and precious metals from Iberia, and used its considerable naval power and mercenary armies to protect commercial interests. Henry mobilised a mercenary army in the west of Normandy, but as William Rufus and Robert's forces advanced, his network of baronial support melted away. The major impact of the war, in which mercenary armies were extensively used, was the devastation of entire regions scavenged bare by the foraging armies. These were mostly, but not exclusively, members of the Baluba tribe and had fled the persecution of Munongo's mercenary affreux and their black rank-and-file. His motives were generally assumed to be mercenary, but the couple came to cherish one another, remaining close until she died more than three decades later. Adrian undertook to raise a body of mercenary troops from Campania. In January 1688 he had forbidden any of his subjects to serve the Dutch and had demanded that the Republic dissolve its six mercenary Scottish and English regiments. Show More Sentences Pinto similarly was betrayed by a mercenary, captured by the Burmese and placed under the charge of the king's treasurer who took him to the kingdom of Calaminham. With the promise of a pardon as a reward, Dom and Brian's crew must race an organisation of lethally skilled mercenary drivers through the streets of London. Examples from Classical Literature De Launay was rich, of course, but he did not believe that mademoiselle was mercenary. This name is derived from the German 'landsknecht', applied to a mercenary soldier. It would be a mistake no doubt to suppose that the comitatus owes its origin to this mercenary service. Barneveld, representing the Arminian or remonstrant provinces, levied a body of mercenary soldiers in several of the cities. They resolved to collect bodies of mercenary troops, both infantry and horse. Her friend and champion was a volunteer, far from a mercenary, and he deserved the reward, if she could bestow it unalarmed. But the poor devil of a mercenary has no money, and this is the mortal sin. With them the mercenary and the pecuniary are ever distinct from the religious. I am pocked from head to heel like a Swiss mercenary late come from Venice. This was the origin and beginning of the mercenary, or, as it is also called, the Libyan war. Is it that I am honored by having this mercenary drunkard for a husband? But the most objectionable thing in the mass is its mercenary character. But let us not waste time or thought on commercial or mercenary craft. If ever there was a mercenary plotter whose thoughts and designs were always in her mean occupation, I am the amiable creature. Lecount's cool avowal, when she rose to leave us, of her own mercenary motives in wishing to discover her master and to enlighten him. Many a mercenary perished, but finally not a boyar remained alive. Now, this muscle-bound man of myth roams the land with a rag-tag team as a mercenary for hire. There was nothing mercenary in his connection with politics. But if you think I was consistently mercenary you are mistaken. Well then, on that mercenary ground, will you agree to let me hector a little? Show More Sentences Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army, in the midst of peace, and among a free people. Callicrates and other popular leaders became mercenary instruments for inveigling their countrymen. One has the mercenary spirit, the other has singleness of purpose. The starets was one of the most far-seeing and mercenary scoundrels. But Toby insisted upon it, as he now began to think that Jimmy might be a mere mercenary, who would be sure to prove faithless if not well paid. Believe that they are not all mercenary, although I have, through a series of strange fatalities, faded out of my place in life. Then she tried a child's story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it. She was in pursuit of fame, not filthy lucre, and her literary dreams were as yet untainted by mercenary considerations. The reader must understand that McFate is really describing a spectrum from pure individual mercenary to major corporate enterpriser. I admire this mercenary young person distantly related to myself, more in this dress than if she had come to me in China silks, Cashmere shawls, and Golconda diamonds. As for mercenary forces, all examples show, that whatsoever estate or prince doth rest upon them, he may spread his feathers for a time, but he will mew them soon after. The Hercules we meet has already finished his labours and has seemingly nothing left to accomplish so spends his days travelling around Greece as a mercenary. We become mercenary or self-denying, very much as we are instructed. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of mercenary? Words that rhyme with mercenary What is the plural of mercenary? What is the adverb for mercenary? What is the adjective for mercenary? What is the noun for mercenary? Translations for mercenary Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words mercenarism mercenariness mercenaries Mercedes-Benz Mercedes Merced mercer Mercer mercerization mercerized mercery merch 9-letter Words Starting With m me mer merc merce mercen mercena mercenar