Sentences with phrase «greedy institution»

Whereas marriage has been called a greedy institution because married hetero couples tend to focus more on each other and their kids, and less on friends and family, that did not happen for same - sex couples who tied the knot.

Included in the above are a few prevalent beliefs about marriage: that it creates a sense of ownership (well, it's true — women were the property of their husband for many, many, many years); that it stifles freedom and independence (it has been called a «greedy institution «-RRB-; it enables couples to become «too comfortable,» and the label «wife» and the expectations that come with being a wife are troublesome for some women — especially woman who have been married before.

After all, marriage has been called a greedy institution — it sucks up time you could be spending by yourself, with friends, with relatives, volunteering, exploring and growing.

Good question, but there's still a lot of societal pressure to couple up and put a ring on it, even though marriage has been called a «greedy institution,» limiting both men's and women's freedom, including sexual freedom — unless you have an open marriage and that, my friends, is up for you to create or not.

Whereas marriage has been called a greedy institution because married hetero couples tend to focus more on each other and their kids, and less on friends and family, that did not happen for same - sex couples who tied the knot.

Marriage generally does not support activities and friendships outside the couple, as I've learned in my research for The New I Do, leading some to call it a greedy institution.

Brian, the Air Force reservist and sociology Ph.D. candidate, calls the military and graduate school «greedy institutions, in terms of time requirements, energy level, multitasking — teaching and research — and everything else.»

Her research suggests that both family and college sometimes act as «greedy institutions,» central to class production and reproduction projects, pulling students in different directions — the collective responsibilities to family may hinder the college experience, but at the same time, the college experience may hinder the fulfillment of family obligations.

Despite its open - source origins, blockchain tech could end up being fenced in by greedy institutions, says Bijesh Amin of Indus Valley Partners.

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That fateful summer forever changed investors» perception of banks and while before they were seen as institutions able to facilitate liquidity for businesses and individuals, now they were seen as greedy vultures ready to use taxpayer moneys in order to be rescued.

Greedy loan sharks lurk in all the lending institutions.

The crony community of massive banking institutions, monetary institutions, authorities, politicians, the courts, and their corporately owned media have employed propaganda, lies and spin medical doctors to influence Americans that naïve and greedy property owners crashed the worldwide credit score markets in 2008.

But Don't Get Greedy and Use the Flash — In light of more and more museum attendees sneakily skirting «No Photography» signs with surreptitious cell phone usage, institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago are loosening their limitations on visitor photography, though the practice does come with some copyright complications, if not a social - media boost.

«Each believer and each leader, each field and each discipline, each institution and each individual must be touched by the call to change our greedy ways and destructive habits.»

That's why the contemporary institution is sometimes called «greedy marriage.»

Poor lending programs, geared to bring in abundant loans to a greedy lending institution, contributes to a loss in value for thousands of decent people who are victims of plain greed by mortgage lenders.