In the United States, there has grown to be a mercenary ritual around so-called naming rights.
Gorugo 13, about the travails of a mercenary sharpshooter, is representative of the trend.
Welsh Archer (male, age range: 35-55), a professional soldier, with almost a mercenary attitude.
His long dark history as a mercenary in Africa, from 1961 onwards, had blurred everything about him.
Why is the American government supporting a mercenary army in Mexico, you ask?
The painter was, Lady Hale writes, a mercenary who would serve the highest bidder without, it seems, sacrificing his artistic integrity.
He was in the Belgian army and had been a mercenary for the army of Rhodesia, the white-ruled precursor to Zimbabwe, and fought Marxist guerrillas, the newspaper said.
Adapted from a British political thriller, and produced by David Fincher, the series stars Kevin Spacey as a mercenary Democratic House Majority Whip and Robin Wright as his wife.
She joined Silva in his quest to become a mercenary selling his talents for jobs to the highest bidder, something that clearly came about later after she escaped her childhood victimization.
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Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said authorities have arrested a U.S. citizen who "had all the appearances of a mercenary" working to destabilize the South American country's government.
But, unlike the Rolling Stones, say, who have not written a great song since the disco era and come together only to pad their fortunes as their own cover band, Springsteen refuses to be a mercenary curator of his past.
Had the Greek from Rhodes called Memnon, who served Persia as a mercenary general (as the Spartan Clearchus had served Cyrus the Younger in his failed attempt to seize the throne from his older brother in 401) not died from illness early on in the campaign, Alexander might have been given a much tougher ride.
They are there to have fun, they are often drunk, and from a strictly mercenary point of view, this is a great room.
There, a putsch led by Bob Denard, a veteran mercenary, was put down by French troops.
In this environment, a world apart from the early frontier days of the Internet, hackers today universally exhibit a certain mercenary sensibility, cannily juggling multiple offers, playing judge in hustler beauty contests at hackathons, planning acqui-hire trajectories, and in general maximizing their value as the stewards of the new body of technical knowledge.
Noose, a genetically engineered dwarf mercenary, barely survives a terrorist attack on a neohuman dance club.
The information, he said, had come from a captured Mauritanian mercenary - who had been fighting with pro-Gaddafi forces.
The real enemy of "Step Brothers" is Brennan's egregiously successful younger brother Derek (Adam Scott), a superconfident go-getter whose mercenary brand of ingratiating narcissism makes him a parental favorite -- and unites Bren and Dale in their loathing.
Representative ELIJAH CUMMINGS (Democrat, Maryland): Blackwater, we have to question in this hearing, whether it created a shadow military of mercenary forces that are not accountable to the United States government or to anyone else.
That's why they've made peace with Calipari, a man who has pushed the mercenary limits of the amateur sport.
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The founders are looking for fast-track short-cuts to good jobs, and some mercenary freedoms, not a life of adventure.
It unveiled first-person shooter Killzone: Mercenary, an extension to a popular franchise, and Tearaway, an adventure game set in a world made of paper, developed by Media Molecule - the team behind the best-selling LittleBigPlanet.
Agencies, on the other hand, are more mercenary: initially, they are looking for a transaction, not a deep relationship.
The prince is game for the mercenary match until he falls hard for Mitzi (Fay Wray), a willowy working-class beauty.
Online dating sites, whatever their more mercenary motives, draw on the premise that there has got to be a better way.
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