Sentences with phrase «greed behind»

Doesn't this year's WalMart's Back - to - school campaign slogan, «More School for your money,» just expose the greed behind their schemes?

A robust screenplay by David Scarpa, direction by Ridley Scott as bracing as a strong belt of brandy, and an excellent cast giving it all they've got contribute dramatic heft to a riveting story of American avarice and greed behind the factual 1973 kidnapping of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty's grandson, J. Paul Getty III (aka «Paul»), snatched from the streets of Rome on a sunny July day and held for a $ 17 million ransom which the old man refused to pay.

It's not even a particularly good depiction of the greed behind the mortgage crisis.

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Sometimes — especially in the startup world — what exists behind the buzzwords is little more than ruthless ambition and unrestrained greed wrapped in good PR.

They eliminate the factors associated with human trading since they trade without any attached feelings and they, therefore, don't suffer from greed which is the main reason behind the losses that most binary options traders in the world make.

Confession has stripped away the sins of greed, of selfishness, of laziness, of lust, envy and pride — but has left behind a great catalog of pain for which there is no one to blame.

That means leave your desputes behind and chase the race for the Holy Goal of ending corruption, mischief, bringing back justice and peace, end poverty and starvations, ending monopoly and unlimited greeds of men... But are doing that or not?

Similarly, when it comes to religion we seek out the secrets of the «tricks», the theological slight of hand, the play on people's ego and greed, the truth behind the mystery.

As well as eating and drinking, the faithful are expected to abstain from smoking and sexual relations between dawn and dusk, and to abjure lies, slander, greed, covetousness, giving false oath and denouncing someone behind their back (all of these are prohibited throughout the year by Islam.

Of course, the motivations behind this offering have been varied: fear, praise, worship, idolotry and sometimes plain greed have played a part.

We'll keep you updated... Name: Bodhi Ransom Green Famous parent: Megan Fox The thinking behind it: Bodhi is a Sanskrit name translated as «enlightenment» or «awakening» which relates to a Buddhist concept, wherein Bodhi is synonymous with the state of nirvana, being freed from hate, greed and ego.

A society based on unsustainable greed and financial «fairy gold» is simply not a good idea, and the fact that the economic arguments behind it are shaky offers an opportunity to move on from this.

Look behind the salads, sausage rolls and bite - size pizzas and it turns out that buffets are a microcosm of greed, sexual politics and altruism — a place where our food choices are driven by factors we're often unaware of.

Friends are torn apart by greed after their flatmate dies and leaves a mysterious suitcase of money behind.

The Big Short (Paramount, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD)-- Adam McKay is not necessarily the guy you look to for dramatic outrage at the greed and failure behind the economic collapse of the last decade.

As the world's population falls to its own greed, Eric clings on to the little possessions he owns, until a gang raid the village and steal his truck, leaving behind Rey (Robert Pattinson — TWILIGHT).

Boogie Nights is a unique tale of greed, excess and sex, and behind its controversial subject matter is a detailed examination of what you might call Hollywood's younger sibling - the black sheep, perhaps.

Behind the digital badging scheme is a toxic combination of corporate greed and hubris.

Greed, stupidity, ignorance, and even more greed are behind the historic effort to denigrate teachers, turn our schools into little more than Common Core Testing factories, and destroy the concept of a true and comprehensive public education system.

The motivation behind the M.A. was sheer greed.

Little by little, Wilmot enters a mirror house of illusions and hallucinations that propels him into a secret world of gangsters, greed, and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundreds of millions, or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness.

When problems are uncovered, exposing flaws in a system, it's not surprising to find greed hiding behind closed doors.

Many traders simply set unrealistically large profit targets for their trades with no rational behind them besides greed.

Ehh... Gamestop doesn't appeal to me either, but it's not greed that's behind their trade strategy.

I present to you Frontier Dev - Expansions / Updates & Micro transactions done right - with no Loot Boxes - it proves its possible to have Monetization in games to prolong the games longevity to the advantage of the gamer and the developers With EA, its corporate greed, I truly believe if they removed the Pay -2-Win scenarios this would of not garnered as much attention as it has and for now at least I can not see how they can re-implement anything that gamers alike are going to get behind in there droves - EA shafted themselves with seeing the consumer as a money pit and assuming that gamers have either an unlimited source of funds or its acceptable to suddenly throw out the balance of a game due to financial gain.

GREE, the company behind the game, plans a release to feature phones by the end of June in Japan, with smartphones (Android and iOS) planned for later this summer.

The «bold new direction» aspect comes from a narrative campaign that «captures the reality of modern - day terrorism and allows players to experience it from multiple characters» perspectives», putting players behind the iron - sights of a «revolutionary group» taking their country back from what they see as a system dominated by corporate interests and bureaucratic greed.

The game deftly rips apart the greed and pointlessness behind loot boxes and pay - to - win microtransactions.

Hidden behind cute couches and bells is a hell of selfishness and greed.

It's not a knee - jerk reaction, I tend to try and work backwards from the misery & death to understand the motives behind conflict & war and rarely see anything other than greed at the root.

This book is the definitive dialogue on the subject of paranoid hysterical paranoid alarmists and their denial of evidence for human - caused climate change — the money behind that denial, the political ideologies involved, and of course the unbridled greed that drives denial and denialism.

I'm not even a regular scientist, much less a (sound of choir, ray of sunlight from parted clouds) «CLIMATE Scientist», so don't really know what goes on behind the curtain, but I will say that it is increasingly apparent to me that much of «science» (save that bastion of purity, mathematics), has been corrupted by greed, a political agenda (whose operatives are dupes of the former, really, viz..

Be it due to greed or FOMO, some traders blindly follow the green candles, chasing pumps with scant consideration for the reason behind the coin's sudden spike.