Sentences with word «greed»
Greed, or avarice, is an inordinate or insatiable longing for unneeded excess, especially for excess wealth, status, power, or food. (Wikipedia) (See all definitions)
We have enough in this world to satisfy everybody's need, but everybody's greed» - shared his view Ronnie and many guests supported his initiative by giving generous donations.
BUSINESS
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Yet Anderson never once lets on that he's making a message movie, and his main focus is on the clash between the twin churches of greed and piousness.
MOVIES & TV
There was a lot of greed, but in my opinion, few expected bailouts, but took them when they were offered.
MONEY
Timely enough, Good Teeth features a golden and glittering monument to Mammon — a false god of greed, projecting the illusion of perfect happiness.
ART
Oddo — who is responsible for assigning street names and numbers — chose Cupidity Drive, using a word meaning inordinate desire for wealth, Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception, and Avidity Place, which is derived from avidita, meaning greed, for the new streets.
POLITICS
And I remembered how greed was equated with mental illness in other cultures.
BUSINESS
As they start to perform their stunts, you witness both man who were once school yard friends start to turn on each other as their inhibitions dissolve and their greed begins to possess them.
MOVIES & TV
The choice provisions got gummed up in several different ways (shortage of good alternatives, mediocrity and greed of some providers, insincerity of school districts).
EDUCATION
She always encouraged me to enjoy the fruits of this existence but without desperation, without greed, without neediness.
HEALTH & FITNESS
10), and greed (chap 11).
RELIGION
There's still an imperative element of purity here in that passion and there will be peeps who get the blog thing, but do not have the drive to do the right thing because of greed and ego which (will become apparent soon enough and lead to inevitable failure).
ART
Forget Douglas» wicked, confident take on Gordon Gekko, the Wall Street rationalist for «good greed.»
MOVIES & TV
If you go into this expecting a slick, international thriller with some relevant social commentary about relations between the United States and Mexico, the state of corporate greed and how bad things often happen to good people — well, there's a LITTLE bit of that stuff lightly sprinkled in.
MOVIES & TV
And in this case, it's not clear why corporate greed trumps infanticide in degrees of heinousness.
RELIGION
Let's jump straight into the third reoccurring theme, availability and/or the greed of publishers.
BOOKS
To illustrate the sin of greed, what better than a gambling stock?
MONEY
Such a high degree of volatility could be unsettling and drive irrational behavior, such as selling out of fear or buying and leveraging out of greed.
MONEY
«Nobody is saying don't make money, make it good and clean; but not some of the ones I know; sickening, that kind of greed and selfishness, look at where it landed us.
POLITICS
Prior to my arrival, they had been a part of the state university, but ego clashes, greed, and a failed coup forced them to venture out on their own.
SCIENCE
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers (Paxton, Thornton) erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over four million dollars in cash is...
MOVIES & TV
It was the «greed is good» era, when we lived to work, not the other way round, and because we worked hard, we played hard too.
AUTOMOBILES
When you find a promising new investment idea with a prospect of making a lot of money, it triggers the emotion of human greed which is the enemy of a rational mind.
MONEY
«Your pronouncement for milk donations for the poor people trampled by typhoon Yolanda makes the milk companies grin with greed.
PARENTING
Dr. Dennis Macy DVM - «We should not allow politics and tradition or greed to enter the decision (on frequency of vaccination).
PETS
What astounded me more than anything was that these young people had not only imagined future worlds, but imbued them with the conundrums of our modern planet; pollution, greed, climate-change, the disturbing dark potential of Ai and genetic modification.
EDUCATION
Until recently, the dominant Catholic Church did little to condemn the greed of the ruling class; it opted for the peace and order of the status quo rather than for the justice and turmoil of social change.
RELIGION
Austerity is class war and oligarchical greed, and it needs the appropriate left response, not a propagandised lazy mindless response.
POLITICS
I think it all boils down to a greed for power, power and more power.
FASHION
Johnny (Emile Hirsch, Lords of Dogtown) is the leader in their sordid world of drugs, greed, power and privilege.
MOVIES & TV
Well, even if it is a new tax, which I don't dispute, I don't think it can be characterized as a «grab», which suggests illegitimacy and greed, when the province faces an enormous deficit.
LAW
A combination of political disarray and commercial greed have stopped them from picking up the radioactive pieces of the Soviet collapse.
SCIENCE
There's nothing worse than locking yourself into a field you hate out of a sense of obligation or greed; it's better to be a happy, talented artist than a miserable and mediocre lawyer.
JOBS
To become a successful trader and make good profits, one must keep all the emotions at bay, including greed and fear.
MONEY
Another resident, Elizabeth Sunday, decried the situation and described it as greed on the part of the product marketers.
POLITICS
While his friends were childhood friends, they also succumbed to greed.
MONEY
While he is motivated by greed and lust for high living, Oskar, after having seen the slow methodical extermination of the Jews in Krakow, becomes sympathetic to their cause and begins to systematically buy everyone he can to work in his factory.
MOVIES & TV
The root cause of this problem is both poor education / low knowledge on the importance of money management, as well as greed.
MONEY
But the harnessing of self-interest by markets does not transform greed and indifference to the poor into virtues; nor does the market render concern for the poor and charity unnecessary.
ENVIRONMENT
I believed that Realtysellers probably had a potential for good at the beginning but their ultimate chosen direction for greed ended up compromising their own integrity in the end causing chaos in their ranks and ultimately the industry.
REAL_ESTATE
News, gossips and sharp moves caused by technical reasons can cause traders» emotions to shift quickly between emotions of greed and fear.
MONEY
However, the latest indictment of contemporary socioeconomic class division from director Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo) finds just enough hope amid its cutthroat maze of greed and corruption to allow for audience sympathy, especially for those who can relate to missing a house payment or feeling the financial pinch.
MOVIES & TV
We are saying: keep your bottles, keep your processing of cow/soy/whatever products, keep your packaging, and keep your greed for profit at my and my baby's expense.
PARENTING
In Foreclosed, Alison Elizabeth Taylor turns to architecture and interior space to reveal the pathos of lives dispossessed by the recent economic disaster and to explore the human impact of the short-sighted policies and greed that triggered millions of foreclosures.
ART
This is doubly the case with Paul Singer, whose greed recently caused the entire economy of Argentina to falter.
POLITICS
The banks and those regulating them believed that the bubble would never stop growing, that markets were always self-correcting, that greed was always good, that their ponzi schemes would never collapse, and that none of the debts would ever turn bad.
POLITICS
The leaders we have have saturated themselves with greed and become corrupted, from the first to the last!
RELIGION
McKibben talks about greed and treachery, and tells us he feels «deep, blood-red anger.»
ENVIRONMENT
Just another example of predatory lending and greed.
MONEY
Did climate alarmist scientists» greed siphon away needed funds from much more important, critical science and practical solutions for solving non-global warming deaths?
ENVIRONMENT
In this case, the only thing saving elections in the region from outside corrupting influences may be the greed of those same corrupting influences.
BUSINESS