How to Use pecuniary in a Sentence

pecuniary

adjective

• But there are signs that the national rate of airport pecuniary carelessness is on the decline.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2020
• Cutting taxes for the wealthy is not some minor pecuniary errand to Ryan but a defense of liberty and a moral calling of the highest order.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 6 Mar. 2018
• This opens up the door for support, for guidance to the right resources, and ultimately more pecuniary clarity and success.
  — Wendy Rose Gould, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2019
• Though Rolls-Royce wouldn’t discuss anything so gauche as pecuniary matters, the price tag of the new Boat Tail is likely to have been exponentially higher than this sum.
  — Christian Barker, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• He is charged with capital murder during a first-degree burglary, and murder for pecuniary gain - meaning that he was paid to commit the slaying.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 13 May 2022
• But the board’s latest move betrays hesitation that shareholders might not put the same value on non-pecuniary factors.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 8 June 2022
• Preserving power, and the pecuniary interests that come with it, is the priority.
  — Clarissa Ward, CNN, 9 Apr. 2021
• Connolly said White has been been charged with capital murder during a first degree burglary, and murder for pecuniary gain - meaning that he was paid to commit the slaying.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 1 Sep. 2020
• To hear Jason Momoa and company tell it, though, there is space for ambitions more philosophical than pecuniary.
  — Kevinisha Walker, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• Alemi, of Burnley, Lancashire, denies 13 counts of fraud, three counts of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception, two counts of forgery and two counts of using a false instrument.
  — Ian Leonard, Fox News, 11 Jan. 2023
• The dignity and creative-pecuniary value of consumer in-market knowledge.
  — Peter Weedfald, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• Foxx’s example demonstrates the extent to which the right kind of pecuniary inducements can transform those who swing through the regulator-to-private-sector revolving door.
  — Steven Higashide, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2020
• Advocates of this approach have often claimed that investing in ESG factors will not have a negative pecuniary impact.
  — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• Our department’s proposal makes clear that trustees must keep savers’ retirement income at front of mind, and not use workers’ and retirees’ savings for non-pecuniary purposes.
  — Patrick Pizzella, Fortune, 6 July 2020
• Assane’s quest for revenge against Hubert Pellegrini (Hervé Pierre), the man who wrongly accused his father for his own pecuniary gain, is now taking its toll, putting his family and himself in harm’s way.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 12 June 2021
• But to deliberately throw up roadblocks that prevent easy comparisons is to turn up an institution’s collective nose at anyone with even the mildest pecuniary concerns.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2016
• Voting centers, as places where anyone living in the county can vote, would eliminate that and realize a savings on the pecuniary and time costs of notifying voters, training judges and staffing multiple centers, Garreis said.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• Less explicitly clear but of obvious concern are Trump’s own pecuniary interests.
  — Chris Sagers, Slate Magazine, 13 Jan. 2017
• Like all professionals, public-school teachers choose where to work on the basis of a number of factors, including student quality and other non-pecuniary characteristics.
  — Reihan Salam, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
• To become a superpower the United States embraced ideals delineated in its Constitution, guided by national interests, rather than short-term pecuniary gains of its politicians or business elite.
  — Vitaly Skotsyk, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
• ABC reported the act also means family members can often not obtain judgments for non-pecuniary damages, such as pain and suffering, when a passenger dies in international waters.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 11 July 2017
• The jury convicted Hendrix on three counts of capital murder: murder for pecuniary gain, pursuant to a contract for hire; murder committed during a first-degree burglary; and, murder committed during a first-degree robbery.
  — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Stoking populist rage at undocumented immigrants does not threaten the pecuniary interests of a major media company’s owners; stoking populist rage at the economic elite does.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018
• Democratic Party primaries will almost by definition draw out disagreements over taxes and transfers, but in 2016 the primacy of fiscal issues ended up giving short shrift to less pecuniary consequences of increasing concentrations of wealth.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 16 Sep. 2017
• With its court action, the ACCC is seeking declarations, injunctions, pecuniary penalties, corrective publication orders, orders for a compliance program and costs.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2017
• There was thus an indefensible political—rather than pecuniary—purpose, as well as direct presidential involvement in the obstruction of justice, a process which extended to doctoring and withholding evidence requested by Congress.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• For example, the prejudgment interest statutes in Massachusetts and Minnesota limit the application of prejudgment interest in personal injury cases to pecuniary damages.
  — Kevin Bessler, Washington Examiner, 26 Mar. 2021
• The policy requires plan sponsors for state and local pension funds to evaluate investments only on pecuniary issues, prohibiting considerations of environmental or social factors.
  — George Strobel, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• Scholarly commentators and pundits generally shrink from ascribing base pecuniary motives to the military-industrial complex.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The previous regulation provided that fiduciaries’ primary duty is to maximize pecuniary returns.
  — WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024