moneylenders

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Copenhagen Climate Conference: run by anti-Christmas bigots « Anglican Samizdat 2009

These peasants were thinking of popular risings on the pattern of all the risings in the history of China -- attacks on the towns and the killing of the hated landowners, officials, and moneylenders, that is to say of the gentry.

A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

Governments are, however, severely strapped for funds and have little choice but to agree to the conditionalities of the new "moneylenders".

Archive 2004-06-01 2004

He also paid off the debts his soldiers had accumulated over the last few years from moneylenders, wine merchants, and prostitutes—no questions asked—even though it was a huge drain on the treasury.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Think of the man who preached poverty and threw the moneylenders out of the Temple, how he might react to a televangelist telathon, say.

Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

He also paid off the debts his soldiers had accumulated over the last few years from moneylenders, wine merchants, and prostitutes—no questions asked—even though it was a huge drain on the treasury.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

The bank was established in the 1970s specifically for lending to self-employed women on low interest, so they're not indebted to moneylenders and make them financially independent.

Betwa Sharma: Rural Women Turn Solar Energy Entrepreneurs in Indian Village Betwa Sharma 2011

I have no idea what I would say if someone asked me if I could categorically rule out the possibility that Jews tend to be greedy moneylenders.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010

He also paid off the debts his soldiers had accumulated over the last few years from moneylenders, wine merchants, and prostitutes—no questions asked—even though it was a huge drain on the treasury.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

A popular Renaissance morality play had two Jewish moneylenders talking:

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011