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.
There, a putsch led by Bob Denard, a veteran mercenary, was put down by French troops.
Within hours they had surrounded the barracks where the mercenary coup leader had holed up.
Mr. Stock winces at the terms "mercenary" and "hired guns, " which he considers inaccurate.
Is our work as advertisers of any importance in the trenches of these mercenary wars?
The knowledge itself was turned over to the stewardship of yet another new mercenary class: marketers.
Noose, a genetically engineered dwarf mercenary, barely survives a terrorist attack on a neohuman dance club.
Its charter includes un-mercenary promises to respect human rights and uphold British foreign-policy aims.
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.
The arrested men will appear in court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Thursday accused of contravening anti-mercenary laws.
Agencies, on the other hand, are more mercenary: initially, they are looking for a transaction, not a deep relationship.
Instead, we see the full fury of the Russian military and mercenary allies directed against Georgia and the Georgians.
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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Why is the American government supporting a mercenary army in Mexico, you ask?
The founders are looking for fast-track short-cuts to good jobs, and some mercenary freedoms, not a life of adventure.
The information, he said, had come from a captured Mauritanian mercenary - who had been fighting with pro-Gaddafi forces.
The prince is game for the mercenary match until he falls hard for Mitzi (Fay Wray), a willowy working-class beauty.
By 1995, the government had started to employ foreign mercenary soldiers, paying them with some of the remaining diamond-mining concessions.
If Storm's zombie army is shifting into mercenary mode, researchers say, it could mark another step in the evolution of cybercrime.
Online dating sites, whatever their more mercenary motives, draw on the premise that there has got to be a better way.
The painter was, Lady Hale writes, a mercenary who would serve the highest bidder without, it seems, sacrificing his artistic integrity.
Ironically, bankers managed to do them what they had done to the artisan class: split them into new mercenary and labor subclasses.
They often are treated as some important new category, as if for-profit enterprises are mercenary privateers (pirates) and nonprofits are business retards.
Yet all we see is Huppert glaring at him with mercenary intent.
They are there to have fun, they are often drunk, and from a strictly mercenary point of view, this is a great room.
For America, the case of the Sirius Star underlines longstanding concerns that piracy off Somalia, still strictly mercenary, might soon attract jihadist operators.
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He said the group agreed they should not urge Mr Assange to leave the embassy as that would make them "mercenary and contemptible individuals".
He is something of an underground mercenary, hired by everyday people to fix situations that cannot be dealt with through legal means (e.g. by blackmail).
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