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How to use pecuniary in a sentence

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In reality what happens is the blatant misuse of public office for pecuniary gain.
Awards of damages are primarily intended to compensate for loss, whether pecuniary or non-pecuniary.
After the conclave certain honorary distinctions and pecuniary emoluments are awarded to the conclavists.
You must also by law declare certain pecuniary interests in the statutory register kept for this purpose.
He was arrested on suspicion of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and damaging police property.
Does that cover a person adjudged liable to pay a pecuniary penalty in a civil action?
It does not agree with the Government that pecuniary compensation would not provide redress.
Given my pecuniary circumstances, I did not really allow my eye to roam and gaze longingly at other more sporty or luxurious motor cars.
After all, it's just a piece of metal suspended by a machine-made ribbon with no jewels or special pecuniary value.
The pecuniary advantage lost by the dependant need not be merely financial.
Under capitalism, the motives guiding decisions are pecuniary, not personal, selfish, not social.
It will cover pecuniary and non-pecuniary damage to hotel and restaurant guests, customers and visitors.
The new law increases the pecuniary fine envisaged for those tour operators who violate this obligation.
That included income from employment, transfer payments, investment income and other pecuniary income.
The prime minister's pecuniary interest register does not list his daughter's scholarship.
Decisions of the Council or of the Commission which impose a pecuniary obligation on persons other than States, shall be enforceable.
How can you be said to have a direct pecuniary interest in the outcome of proceedings if it does not matter tuppence to you, personally, who wins or loses.
Mr. Speaker, I listened with rapt attention as the chronicled the history of pecuniary matters in parts of Canada.
To reduce the workload of the Federal Supreme Court, the new Act increases the required minimum amount in dispute in pecuniary matters.
In addition to pecuniary damage, the aggrieved person is entitled to the compensation for non-pecuniary damage.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Their accounts were kept, and their references to pecuniary matters were always stated, in terms of liquid measure.
The pecuniary employments have also the sanction of reputability in a much higher degree than the industrial employments.
He was to supply the funds, and the pecuniary profit was to be shared by the Gisborne family.
But unbeknownst to it, this very violence thrived on these pecuniary fertilizers.
I assure you, my dear Sir, that you truly hurt me with your pecuniary parcel.
The cost no more entered into his calculations in a personal than a pecuniary sense.
With them the mercenary and the pecuniary are ever distinct from the religious.
As extravagance is excess in outlay, exorbitance is excess in demands, and especially in pecuniary demands upon others.
Consequently, the expropriation of the capitalists would bring no direct and pecuniary gain to the labouring classes.
On receiving this sentence of extrusion, Portia turned upon her poet with a demand for pecuniary compensation.
The ground of survival in the selective process is fitness for pecuniary gain, not fitness for serviceability at large.
Mr. izard, the doctor's enemy also, but from a pecuniary transaction, never countenanced these charges against him.
Thomas Traddles, without acquitting myself of the pecuniary part of this obligation, would weigh upon my mind to an insupportable extent.
Her Ladyship became possessed of this pecuniary remittance under circumstances which surround it with a halo of romantic interest.
He would then have suffered under the pecuniary distresses which, because they are removed, he now reckons as nothing.
The corporation for pecuniary gain has neither body nor soul.
The field of human sympathy, out of which I might have raised the needful pecuniary crop, is closed to me from want of time to cultivate it.
As long as it is her interest to provide herself with pecuniary resources for the future, she verbally engages to go on.
The pecuniary gain from rag rug weaving may easily be calculated.
I left my share in the profits untouched, and I possess a pecuniary interest in our establishment to this day.
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