buccaneering in a sentence
Examples
- But the upshot is a jarring blend of new-age buccaneering and more old-fashioned national protectionism.
- Foley knows he must maintain patience, that his stalled career should not force him into becoming a buccaneering quarterback.
- The story for which Disney is remembered involves the buccaneering Archbishop Blackburne performing confirmation in St . Mary's.
- For all his buccaneering reputation, he had never fitted the cliche image of a bare-knuckled Lancashire textiles magnate.
- The deal dramatized the contrast between Desmarest's buccaneering penchant for risk and Jaffre's focus on fiscal orthodoxy.
- But for aficionados of corporate buccaneering, Burnett's failure resonates as the Enron debacle unfolds in the United States.
- Selkirk was an unruly youth, and joined buccaneering voyages to the South Pacific during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- Viewed from London, buccaneering was a low-budget way to wage war on England's rival, Spain.
- "We can't allow American businessmen to continue to be robbed by buccaneering barristers, " he railed.
- It was assumed this would have disrupted and disorganized their forces just before the Spanish foot made contact with the buccaneering force.