Sentences with phrase «as greedy»

«Not Obama's fault Bush got our country the way it is, as well as greedy banks and people who bought homes that they couldn't afford.»

However, those who we really condemn as GREEDY are in reality psychopaths, those folks who know no bounds to their wants and desires, who acquire resources to the detriment of their fellow beings without experiencing any uncomfortable thoughts regarding the damage that they are causing others due to their lack of the thing that makes most of us well developed humans, a conscience.

And you won't come off as greedy, overly aggressive, or selfish.

Most candidates are inherently uncomfortable with the subject — they don't want to come across as greedy or solely money - motivated.

Many people see this as a greedy, anti-community cash grab.

The cryptocurrency sphere often gets a bad rap from the mainstream press which paints it as greedy, ignorant and naive.

As a greedy geek with a counter crammed full of kitchen gadgets and a taste for meat, that certainly appealed, as did Cinder's promise of sous - vide style cooking without the hassle of preheating water baths and bagging up your meals.

Apple is as greedy as ever now.

More disturbingly, however, lawyers are seen as greedy and self - obsessed.

In a 2002 American Bar Association (ABA) survey, 69 % of respondents identified lawyers as greedy and 51 % said society would be better off with fewer lawyers.

For members of a profession often portrayed as greedy, it is nice to have evidence that proves otherwise.

But for David to take his concerns with this report and use them to paint a broad - brush picture of the MBA as a greedy, monopolistic entity, unconcerned with clients or the public, is a distortion of truth.

«For members of a profession often portrayed as greedy, it is nice to have evidence that proves otherwise... Lawyers donated an average of two weeks a year to pro bono and community work,» writes Bob Ambrogi, in his post on a new ABA survey of pro bono work.

Legislators are beginning to see the bill as greedy.»

Which raises another little thing that bugs me: Climate change alarmists have cast themselves as the prudent, scientific ones, and climate change skeptics as greedy fools.

My years of blogging, sending out thousands of emails and publishing letters have left me with the feeling that people who want to advocate for the Earth, just as forcefully as the greedy kings and masters of the universe among us so religiously and adamantly promote the patently unsustainable, seemingly endless growth of the «Economic Colossus», we call the global political economy, have been spinning our wheels and going NOWHERE.

If you still see the companies as greedy monsters at that point, I will repeat my spoiled princess line.

However, the upside is (if you can call it that) is that they're still not AS greedy as Microsoft.

As a greedy, space - capitalist your goal is to get filthy stinking rich!

As a greedy, space - capitalist your ultimate goal is to make as much as you can.

Wario first hijacked Mario's castle, and then his entire series of games with Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land, allowing Wario to star as his greedy, pudgy, yet powerful self.

The small dogs should not be given the opportunity to lead because they are known as greedy and dominant and you must not let them to think like they are the bosses.

Seems to me it's not the intelligent ones that think of all breeders as greedy.

The bankers will immediately dive into riskier loans, and look to work that amazing multiplier effect as quickly as their greedy little paws can robo - sign loan docs.

Bottom line is that Canadian banks have not been as greedy as other banks around the world, they have been conservative in their lending policies and it all has paid off.

For many years, the American consumer was misinformed about bad credit mortgages as greedy, unscrupulous lenders lured them in with super low rates (known...

And thus, much as the greedy need to hear this advice, it is unlikely they will listen.

Coercing them into paying interest on currently loaned money is bound for trouble and comes off as greedy.

Icahn likes to consider installing new management too, typically considering current management as greedy and / or incompetent.

HFT is often bandied about in the media as a greedy activity that produces no real economic value.

As far as greedy corporations go, Amazon is very customer friendly.

I have the right, as a consumer, to view Amazon as greedy and I don't trust them.

That's how it maintains the low, low prices customers love, while driving booksellers out of business and framing publishers as greedy villains — even though books are the * only * product we sell, whereas books are just the gateway drug Amazon uses to lure customers through the door.

The DOJ also pointed to an email that one student sent to Jobs asking why Apple was raising the price of ebooks, which the student summarized as greedy.

Through the benefits of modern technology, HarperCollins can finally be as greedy as it wants to be.

Although the throttle response is about as greedy as a piranha that smells blood, the shift action is still smooth enough to pardon even emergency midcorner downshifts.

It's easy to question the motives of a Bill Gates or a Whitney Tilson, or worse, paint them as greedy profiteers (when, in all honesty, neither are making a profit off of any of this).

In Illinois, opponents successfully pushed laws to make it harder for teachers to bargain or strike over issues beyond salary, then framed teachers as greedy.

but it's true that the average americans are still struggling just to get by, and the wealthy and powerful are still just as greedy as ever.

She faces court cases challenging teacher tenure and job protections, the defection of historically loyal Democrats, growing apprehension over the Common Core, diminishing ranks, public relations campaigns painting her union as greedy and a complicated chessboard of state and local members with a variety of interests.

Long among the most powerful forces in American politics, the unions are contending with falling revenue and declining membership, damaging court cases, the defection of once - loyal Democratic allies — and a multimillion - dollar public relations campaign portraying them as greedy and selfish.

12:00 M — TCM — The Treasure of the Sierra Madre One of Humphrey Bogart's best films casts him as greedy prospector Fred C. Dobbs, who teams up with old - timer Walter Huston and youngster Tim Holt to find a horde of gold.

2:00 pm — TCM — The Treasure of the Sierra Madre One of Humphrey Bogart's best films casts him as greedy prospector Fred C. Dobbs, who teams up with old - timer Walter Huston and youngster Tim Holt to find a horde of gold.

portrays us as the greedy and hapless schmucks that we are.

Take - Two says its games can go further with microtransactions — but it doesn't want to go so far that fans see it as greedy.

He's got all the awfulness to him as a greedy capitalist without the coolness or complexity of an awesome bad guy.

The lead «seven» have great chemistry, and Peter Sarsgaard is effective as the greedy robber baron looking to plunder a small town of its wealth.

Director Danny Boyle helms the show, which stars Donald Sutherland as greedy oil tycoon J. Paul Getty.

THE BANK In this timely 2001 drama from Australia about corporate shenanigans, Anthony LaPaglia steals the show as a greedy CEO who hires a mathematician to predict stock market patterns.

Boon Joon Ho's latest film stars Tilda Swinton as a greedy CEO who promises a new breed of «super pigs» that she claims can save the world from starvation.