Sentences with phrase «greed which»

«Anyone who is surprised by this SEC investigation into ICOs either hasn't been paying attention or has been entranced by greed which has made them oblivious to how the financial industry works.

On the contrary, one particular paragraph illustrates the intention and crass greed which solely motivates these fiends.

The Kyoto protocol was made the way it was by self interest and greed which to our eternal shame was in no small part Australian.

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.

Fear can be both good and bad in trading, unlike greed which is essentially always bad for a trader.

Another new edition is Sam Claflin who plays Philip, a missionary who provides a Christian infused moral core to the violence, treachery and greed which these characters partake in at any given moment.

Yusuf, there is doing your job, which in my opinion is looking after your player and trying to get the best possible deal, and then there is just pure greed which usually is along side not looking out for the player, but only your own pockets.

I stopped going last season, unable to stomach the stench of lies and corporate greed which is steadily strangling our once honourable club.

The issue is mans selfishness and greed which always starts conflicts.

I must commend others that have commented on corrupt churches and greed which comes in many forms.

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.

«There is a degree of cynicism and greed which is really quite shocking... and that does suggest that there are some very wide cultural issues that need to be strongly addressed.»

There's some positive but mainly negative news from Japanese games giant GREE which is set to cut jobs in North America as it completes the removal of Openfeint from its business in the region.

Not exact matches

When you have these kinds of price hikes, which in some cases I believe are just simply criminal and they are done because of greed, it's like putting a gun to somebody's head and saying you need to pay me this very high price for the drug or you die.

This is straight back to the rampant greed and speculation on dodgy paper «assets» which preceded the GFC.

Highly volatile, low - returning markets end in fear, which leads to higher - returning markets with much lower volatility, followed by the eventual greed that starts the cycle again.

... which is to say fear, greed and other primitive instincts drive your decision making.

Bubbles inflate with greed and deflate with fear; whether the mechanism by which fear and greed are expressed is active or passive is a secondary issue.

It helps me keep my reins tight on greed and fear (to which it is so easy to fall prey to) so that i can take good care of my money.

The Deep State elite, which for decades has exhibited an endless lust for other people's money and greed that is beyond biblical, is simply not going to allow every day citizens to benefit from gold holdings that have surged in value.

I have a Business and a Theology degree — let me tell you — in a Capitalist system (which greed is avowed as a value now)-- there couldn't be more opposites.

He is insistent that piety and greed were not contradictory in the Middle Ages, which is quite correct.

Into the risk - averse worlds of corporate lawyers and bankers in the 1970s came a new generation of raiders, a mogul horde the likes of which had not been seen since the days when Jay Gould and other grandees of greed held sway.

Having wondered, I've got to ask this of believers and non-believers of all persuasions: Which philosophy is more likely to plunder the world for greed and personal gain — those who think there is an afterlife or those who think this is all there is?

For example, the Protestant doctrine that we are all sinners is reflected in the Freudian - Marxist behaviorist - positivist claptrap claiming that there is no virtue, that all our actions arise from dark psychic urges, exploitative class greed or biological impulses — which supposedly proves that talk about good and evil, right and wrong, and certainly saintliness is illusory.

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.

But the Bible talks way more about divorce, greed, gluttony, pride, most of which are overlooked in our churches.

In his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri, issued in 1939, Pope Pius XI deplored the fact that «these most powerful means of publicity, which can be of great utility for instruction and education when directed by sound principles, are only too often used as an incentive to evil passions and greed for gain.»

Admittedly I have drawn attention to large - scale suffering, but the question is just as difficult to answer when we come to the hatred, lust, malice, greed, pride and selfishness which mar the national, social and family life of our own country.

Meeting predictable hemming and hawing, they resolved to do what they did best: «to preach their feelings publicly in the pulpits, to declare the state in which our [Spanish] sinners, who owned and oppressed these peoples, were, and, after dying in it, where they would finally go as a reward for their inhumanity and greed.»

We've isolated and condemned homosexuality as an especially egregious sin because 1) it's a sexual thing (and we're obsessed with sex), 2) it's relatively easy to identify and name, (unlike gossip and materialism and greed, which are condemned more often in the Bible and are more pervasive in our culture), and 3) it is «other,» (when you're straight, and in no danger of committing homosexual acts yourself, it's easy to call it an abomination because it's easier to remove specks from others people's eyes.)

How can you expect the members of a profession which is largely based on greed and tax - exempt income to preach against greed?

I have no opposition to corporate greed but I do warfare, which is why I and many others were critical of the war.

So these end the Christian church in the U.S. Sadly the Crystal Cathedral which was the exemplary work of Reverend Schuler (years of true faith) was destroyed by his own children (motivated by greed).

That leads on a pathway too permanent inner happiness.you people think you solving the world with your limited areas of buisness and criminal justice degrees or phony rip off international banking degrees.there is more education and technology but have not solved global poverty so sad.and most of you commit suicide which makes you a selfish sob and the root cause of it is false hope and GREED

Finally, there is the fact that Christians love to pick and choose which sins are the worst — things like homosexuality and murder — while ignoring sins that are prevalent within our own congregations (which might actually be much worse)-- sins like gluttony, greed, and pride.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

Bill Nye never became irrelevant and has been working to increase kid's knowledge of science for decades unlike organized religion which is attempting to dumb down our children so they can be fooled into repeating the same mistakes as their parents, those of prejudice, exclusivity, hate, greed and ignorance.

In «Mr. Bad Example,» he lampooned the greed of the eighties, and in «Boom Boom Mancini» and «The Hockey Song» he questioned the hidden violence which often drives American sports.

Capitalism is a idea which promotes greed as a good, but Jesus described as Mammon.

We must differentiate between the values and concerns of the Kingdom of God and the modern equivalents of Christendom, such as the world market which propagates its own values based on greed and the logic of world economics.

«Can human nature which has been so long conditioned by the stimuli of capitalism,» asked the CENTURY, «discipline itself while still subject to the same stimuli, to the point of curtailing its greed for profits when profits are to be had?»

The trick is fooling the world into thinking there is some invisible evil spirit that made you do bad things so you can shift the blame for the greed, the selfishness and the hubris with which most religious zealots conduct themselves.

It is so important to create feminized culture based on caring, nurturing mutual help and change the prevailing masculine culture of competition, efficiency and power greed, which is the culture of globalization.

The Christian has found in the cross the key to the problem of the tragic element of evil which comes to light in man's inhumanity to man, war, oppression, hatred, greed and famine.

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.

The articles of missionary spirituality which missionary has to attain are transparency, responsibility, courageous witness, freedom from greed, and the practice of service and diakonia, as found in the Apostle Paul's self - confession in Acts 20.

No third party could be effective, he felt, unless it displaced one of the major parties — in which case it would become a competitor for power, with its idealism and sincerity certain to be «diluted with opportunism and corrupted with the lust of office and the greed for the spoils of office» (October 19, 1932).

I watched a doc on Enron and how everyone ducked and dodged taking fault for the mass abuses of the company — which occured mainly due to greed and power.

Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.