Sabaa Tahir

I don't go on social media with a mercenary intent to promote. That's just wrong. I go to learn, to listen, to have fun, to find people who love what I love and who introduce me to new things. That's where the joy is: in the interactions.

Pakistani Writer

Mike Rowe

Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?

American Celebrity

Boris Yeltsin

Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.

Russian Statesman

Robbie Fowler

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

English Athlete

Michael Avenatti

I'm a mercenary. That's what people hire me for, and I don't apologize for it.

American Lawyer

Larry Holmes

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

American Athlete

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

Iraqi Public Servant

Sam Altman

You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.

American Businessman

Rick Majerus

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

American Coach

Ted Waitt

I don't want a mercenary management team.

Implies disapproval and a lack of moral or ethical values in taking up causes for personal gain.

Negative Connotation

Historically neutral when describing soldiers in past conflicts, such as mercenaries in medieval times.

Neutral Contexts

Often appears in literature and media, depicting a character with complex moral ambiguity.

Literary Usage

When used as an adjective, it carries a negative judgment about someone's motives.

Pejorative Sense

Applies to various situations, not just military, where financial gain is the main incentive.

Non-Military Context

Can describe someone in a personal relationship primarily interested in their partner's wealth.

Personal Relationships

 Perhaps most clever of all, though, and least obvious, by flipping the data on its head, the researchers were able to deeply explore the coordination networks in Syria that were ultimately responsible for receiving and transporting the foreign fighters to the border. These were networks of mercenaries, not ideologues,

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 he continued to make false papers at the expense of all kinds of sacrifices. I'd like to talk about those sacrifices, because there were many. There were obviously financial sacrifices because he always refused to be paid. To him, being paid would have meant being a mercenary. If he had accepted payment,

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 was the severed head of a foe. They preserved these heads in jars of cedar oil and showed them to guests who visited their homes. Celtic warriors were so valued in the ancient world that foreign kings often hired them as mercenary soldiers to serve in their armies.

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 There's also a long tradition of people being tattooed unwillingly. Greeks and Romans tattooed slaves and mercenaries to discourage escape and desertion. Criminals in Japan were tattooed as such as far back as the 7th century.

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 become a language that all humans speak this is the story of how money made us modern how it opened the globe and spread ideologies transforming the ancient world into a complex civilization of merchants mercenaries

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 And I should be thinking about ways to help them partner with us and invest in a more meaningful way. I know this sounds a tad mercenary. I'm not confused about how it sounds. But here's what I want to tell you,

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 As the Roman Empire split in two, these tribal armies played larger roles in its defense and internal power struggles. In the 5th century, a mercenary revolt lead by a soldier named Odoacer

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 affecting Swiss mercenaries serving abroad. Its symptoms, including fatigue, insomnia, irregular heartbeat, indigestion, and fever were so strong, the soldiers often had to be discharged.

Mercenary