Sentences with word «avaricious»

I concede that this strategy is often abused by avaricious agents, but the fact that it is prone to abuse, doesn't make the practice, in and of itself, unethical.

Low down payment programs sponsored by the government, non-existent underwriting, and avaricious bundlers, sellers and buyers of residential mortgage securities propelled the home ownership rate to a historic high of 69 % in 2006.

It is typically a stopping point for accessing Isis and the Pyramid as well as the cave leading to Baharata, and travelers can experience firsthand how the town got it's name after dealing with the avaricious merchants.

And whenever hosts have them in their homes They realise the French are such men So greedy and so avaricious That he ought to drive them off with kicks.

These arrogant and avaricious leaders are living examples of patently unsustainable lives and, yes, they take pride in their gigantic ecological «footprints» and lifestyles based upon excessive consumption and unbridled hoarding.

Not everybody associated with climatology is an egotistical, avaricious, arrogant Rasputin - in - waiting.

Thanks to the most arrogant, avaricious and foolhardy among us, all of humanity as well as much of life as we know it are now inhabitants of a planet that is failing fast because of global overconsumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities of the human species.

Even so, does the human family not have the some rights and some reasons to expect better behavior from people who act in such conspicuously avaricious and outrageously irresponsible ways?

The most avaricious, sociopathic people in our societies are in business and govt.

The LA Times has described their collection as «very 1980s... big, brash, expensive, even vaguely avaricious in tone.

During the Protestant Reformation, artists made satirical prints criticizing the Catholic Church and in particular the Pope, who was represented as a grotesque, avaricious figure.

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall (Avaricious and Prodigal)», 2009, C - type print Edition of 5 + 2APs, 177.8 x 228.6 cm; framed: 199.5 x 250 x 4.5 cm, 70 x 90in; framed: 78 1/2 x 98 1/2 x 1 3/4 in

Britain is home to a wealth of ancient artefacts, some left behind by the Romans and Saxons who once occupied the isles, others brought here by eager explorers and avaricious armies.

Their may only be four playable heroes, but they're supported by an eccentric cast that includes bumbling kings, avaricious businessmen and lecherous, thigh - rubbing sages.

As its name suggests the Monkey forest is inhabited by avaricious grey monkey.

Giving and buying often exceed generosity and need as a brittle piece of plastic becomes an avaricious spoiler of hopes and dreams.

«The Golden Egg weaves in Brunetti's relationship with his family, his avaricious boss and the beautiful Signorina Elettra.

One of them: «The challenge for bookstores will be to stay relevant now that the most avaricious readers no longer must visit them to get their next book,» even in print, of course.

I don't see Kindle Unlimited as another example of Amazon being avaricious, because there are two other companies out there doing exactly the same thing: Oyster and Scribd.

Character - driven to the nth degree, The Golden Egg weaves in Brunetti's relationships with his family, his avaricious boss and the beautiful Signorina Elettra.

The black press disparaged Hamilton for his avaricious pursuit of money, even at the expense of other blacks.

According to the NEA, children are being victimized by avaricious corporate types who don't pay their fair share of taxes.

While teachers unions continue to slam the wealthy for not paying their fair share of taxes, it is the finger - pointers who are really the avaricious ones.

The release of this one - year study and the resulting blog post combined the worst elements of the policy world: an avaricious approach to research and a dogmatic approach to punditry.

This year's Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, from the same developer, pays tribute to this tradition with the lovingly - cel - shaded Tombstone Trail casino, an avaricious undead haunt lorded over by skeletal croupiers in fetching top hats.

Also, this Robin isn't trying to steal wealth from the rich to give to the poor so much as keep the heavy burden of taxation by the avaricious monarch at bay.

(Unrated) Eco-expose» about many dangerous chemicals politicians knowingly allow avaricious corporations to manufacture and disseminate in consumer products.

You'll uncover the shady pasts and green - eyed and avaricious desires of the game's seven playable characters — if you're willing to play through the game three separate times — as you explore ever deeper while the Cave itself plays the dual roles of court jester and adjudicator.

When: December 13th Why: It's a little ironic that the villain of this story is an avaricious reptile, because Warner Bros. could be accused of similar behavior following the decision to split «The Hobbit» into three movies.

How avaricious humanity's lost its way, how an ambitious corporate cog travels to a spa in the Swiss alps to retrieve his boss, and eels.

The ticket ends up a winner, and Charlie's share is $ 4 million, but his shrewish, avaricious wife, Muriel (Perez, Do the Right Thing), is upset at having to share any more of their winnings than they have to.

Pokémon games have always had ways to get rich a little quicker, be it the Amulet Coin item across the series or working at the Hotel Richissime in X and Y. For Sun and Moon it looks like avaricious trainers can earn a little extra cash by tossing Pyukumuku back...

Meanwhile, the hobbit Bilbo (Martin Freeman) is trying to diffuse the situation and snap Thorin out of his avaricious funk.

The blacks teach the whites valuable lessons, but it's the whites who save the blacks — sometimes from themselves, as Grisham, Schumacher, and Goldsman (not a black guy among them) toss in some avaricious ACLU / NAACP lackeys hungry for their ring in the media circus.

It is a magnificently unsettling film in its exploration of the male libido: Women are all avaricious and warn smoulderingly of their «power» to withhold sex, and men are helpless to their «other head.»

Their problem was and is their guru - to - the - stars dad Stafford (John Cusack), a snake - oil salesman if ever there were one, and their avaricious mom Christina (Olivia Williams).

Again and again, the film squanders its every opportunity to make a meaningful statement, whether about post-Katrina gentrification, about the pressure on these wannabe Peter Pans having to make concessions to adulthood, about the crush of a mom - and - pop operation by an avaricious conglomerate, or about any of the worthwhile themes hinted at but studiously avoided.

Quest: (LOW) Jump: Crimson Strongmen Objective: Hunt an Iodrome and a Volvidon Rewards: F Treasure Set, F Booty Set, F Pirate Set, F Buccaneer Set, F Legendary Set, F King Set, F Greedy Set and F Avaricious Set

In this return after over a decade to the big screen by Jim Henson's much beloved creations, the long mothballed Muppets Studio in Hollywood becomes threatened with destruction at the avaricious hands of a greedy oil tycoon, Tex Richman (Cooper, The Kingdom), looking to exploit the crude he knows is in the ground underneath the famed Muppet Theater.

(In English and Burmese with subtitles) Last Will and Embezzlement (Unrated) Tarnished Golden Years documentary, narrated by Artie Pasquale, chronicling the epidemic of financial exploitation of the elderly by avaricious charlatans.

The story of seven hired guns who contract to protect a small town from an avaricious mining baron features an all - star cast that includes Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke.

Contagion's complicated storyline contains a plethora of additional plot points, ranging from an avaricious pharmaceutical peddling an ineffective vaccine to a renegade scientist (Gould) being pressured to destroy the fruits of his promising research to the ethical dilemma of a CDC official (Fishburne) who selectively uses top secret information to direct his wife (Sanaa Lathan) from a hot zone to a safe haven while leaving thousands around her to perish.

Ultimately, All the Money in the World is a thoroughly enjoyable film, despite Getty being the avaricious tycoon he was.

To put the unfolding scenario in proper historical perspective, the British had first invaded the Emerald Isle back in the 12th Century, establishing at that time a feudal system which ensured that avaricious noblemen could enrich themselves at the expense of the local populace.

The doubles who've embraced their baser, sick, more avaricious natures serve as further warnings of how close everyone is to giving in to the darkness.

That, of course, would be Johnson's Davis Okuye, a primatologist whose prize subject — a sign - language - fluent albino gorilla named George — unluckily runs afoul of a pathogen that plummets from the sky, courtesy of an avaricious corporation.

In this western an avaricious, ambitious ex-Civil War officer becomes a gambler after his dishonorable discharge.

Unfortunately, the avaricious magnate will stop at nothing to keep the town from being built, and violence ensues.

Lex Barker is the pilot who reluctantly tries to bail the avaricious Rooney out.

I «t cerebrate they are avaricious.