private gain in a sentence
Examples
- For public use _ not for private gain.
- One fourth of these involved seeking private gain.
- I don't use the laws for private gain, so why do I have to be stopped ?"
- Sooner or later, as reasonably intelligent voters understand, most elected leaders turn public service into private gain.
- In this case, the dogs'public office would be used for the company's private gain, the commission said.
- Some analysts say one trouble is that the deal tries to mix private gain and public policy.
- Public progress has led to private gains, as bankers are more willing to gamble on new neighborhoods.
- Populist silverites in the Democratic South and West accused Eastern plutocrats of prolonging the depression for private gain.
- USAID officials asserted two Harvard advisers, Andrei Shleifer and Jonathan Hay, had abused their positions for private gain.
- In Connecticut, eminent domain for private gain has been used in projects in Ridgefield, Bridgeport, Torrington and Bristol.