Sentences with phrase «mean greed»

EA should have learned their lesson with the rather severe PR backlash they received from fans, but that doesn't mean their greed won't rear its ugly head again.

Cupidity means greed, fourberie means trickery or deception and avidity is derived from a Latin word that also connotes greed.

For the new streets, Oddo chose Cupidity Drive, which means inordinate desire for wealth; Fourberie Lane, defined as trickery and deception; and Avidity Place, derived from avidita, meaning greed.

In New York, where addresses are the ultimate status symbol, a street name that means greed may be a little too straightforward.

Not exact matches

Reversion to the mean will always trump, greed, optimism, liquidity and stupidity.

But the game lost its connection to Magie and her critique of American greed, and instead came to mean pretty much the opposite of what she'd hoped.

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?

We re-discover the meaning of heroism and friendship as we see the two hobbits clawing their way up Mount Doom; we see again the endless evil of greed and egotism in Gollum, stunted and ingrown out of moral shape by years of lust for the ring; we recognize again the essential anguish of seeing beautiful and frail things - innocence, early love, children — passing away as we read of the Lady Galadriel and the elves making the inevitable journey to the West.

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.»

Would I be right in guessing the meaning you want to convey is that pastors / the church are often driven by greed and that giving financially to the church doesn't necessarily result in attending to the needs of the vulnerable?

With these pastors, priest, popes, and elders all lying to the people, misleading the flocks, as was prophesied they would in Ezekiel 20, Malachi 2, Jeremiah 23:1 - 5, we are all a lost generation of pestilence, greed, and poverty, and this is not old people, as taught to us in Isaiah 43:11,13 - 19; that this book gives us the past, present, and future of what is going on, then, and now, it's juxtapose, meaning one must «compare» what is going on today with what went on long ago, for it has not changed any, not a bit from how people went astray then, full of pride, and are doing the same thing now, calling it good, or right, prophesied in Malachi 3:13 - 15.

At the same time, he insisted both that salvation meant primarily the persuasion of men and women to live after God's law, and that it also meant redeeming evil institutions from selfishness and greed.

As Jesus used lust in a broad sense to mean any excessive desire, Paul, too, describes lust as a darkness of mind that can lead to lasciviousness, impurity, or greed.

It means nothing when preachers pontificate about greed — when greed is one of the cornerstones of most churches.

At baptism you die for the sin (for example gayness, hated, greed, revenge, mean, lie, murder, adultery, fornication, anger, insulting, condemning, cursing, etc.) and you enter Christ.

Yeah you mean like all the adulterers running around, the people who are full of greed and gluttony.

Yes of course have understood what you meant after all the country is a country of all Egyptians whether Muslim or Christian or Jewish if any... those all have suffered for 30 years in the hands of this dictatorship which cared less for the people of Egypt only was there a greed for their money beside the control of their life and destiny... but above all only people with true faith can achieve what they have achieved, as people with no faith have not that will and power within granted by God to his believers...

More and more young people who are turned in on themselves, mean or vain, prone to greed or jealousy, lacking self - control, inconstant.

What would it mean to declare God's kingdom come to a financial system whose language is greed and exploitation?

The simple pages of Genesis reveal in sheer majesty both the original plan of God, and the qualities of human nature in that beginning, and what could, and did befall if man ate of the tree of the experience of sin: the harmony with God is destroyed, and the tyrannical power of the soul in man, if man adores himself as his sole centre of life and meaning, is to bring into the flesh a storm of unruly desire and addictive greed.

Ask yourself why Ferguson was happy to allow the likes of David Beckham, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Jaap Stam and Cristiano Ronaldo to leave the club, when seemingly their intentions to do so were not motivated by greed, yet a young upstart tells the club «I want an obscene wage like the players at Man City, if you don't give it to me then I am off» and for some reason rather than choosing to cash in on a player who appears to not know the meaning of the word «loyalty» (just ask Everton supporters), instead hands the player the biggest deal in the club's rich history.

I worry that unless the concerns of ordinary, working people are properly addressed within the political arena by a party that fully supports their aims and aspirations, the real issues of poverty, division and disconnect will mean the people of the United Kingdom suffer and the growing culture of greed and apathy will lead to politics becoming more distant and more irrelevant

For those not up on their SAT words, avidita is Italian for «greed,» cupidity means «lust for wealth,» and fourberie is French for «deceit.»

This custom is certain but no problem for couples with a suppression of no weak matters under that, could receive indicates more highly on wings greed, doubts and the refusal of its mean couple.

That means a tight chronological order, complete with dates in the frames» corners; a subdued history, complete with the arc of justice bending towards greed; and less than flashy characters, folks like you and me.

When his grandfather refused to pay the ransom money — for many reasons, including greed and his belief that to do so would mean that the rest of his grandchildren would then also be kidnapped — things went south, and though Paul was, eventually, rescued, the emotional and physical costs for him (including the loss of an ear) and for his family were high.

And now, this small, probing film about what it means to feel small in the face of colossal corporate greed.

Is it simple greed driving him, Fraser knowing fewer crewmembers means a larger share of sunken Nazi gold for him, or plain insanity?

The plethora of writers weave a tale of greed and money where the acquisition of cash is a numbers came, a way to keep score and not a means to satisfaction.

I mean, there are only very few motives to work with (love - problems, money / greed, power, or a combination thereof) and it's really hard to write something that twists these elements into something I haven't read before.

Why that happened, be it carelessness, greed, or even well meaning but naive foolishness, is relatively unimportant.

When placing stop losses, you can not place them based on greed, meaning, you can't place them too close to your entry just because you want to trade a bigger position size.

Your trading rules are meant to keep you safe from making bad decisions in the moment due to your ego, fear, and greed.

Essentially, a high level of greed means participants favor riskier assets while a reading of fear signals a flight to safety.

Due to being a rare type of dog, this often means that they're a target for unscrupulous sellers to make larger profits through deceit, neglect and greed.

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What will happen is less people will go, the income will drop, and the greed of some of these people will mean that the islands tourism will actually start going backwards.

I mean look at Tekken, Crash, Spyro, Resident Evil and many other games that were SO DAMN GOOD but because of greed they went multiplat and BOOM.

They're also both guaranteed hits that would succeed on name recognition alone, but such is the greed of their publishers that they've tried to squeeze as much money out of players as they can by what seems the most underhand means possible.

Since GREE is involved in this game, this means it will be a free - to - play game with optional IAPs involved.

Curated by Susette Min, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, this exhibition explores the competing meanings of hospitality and the different ways it can be seen as a form of welcome or hostility, driven by necessity and greed, fear and desires and subject to conventional demands of etiquette and the law.

... and then quotes Jared Diamond, with a wonderful quote, I think [we humans] did go wrong, not «if» we went wrong, but we did go wrong, in our trajectory up the evolutionary «volcano» of life, and where we went wrong, I think, well, it was not our fault exactly, but the way we evolved, the DNA we carried, the way our brains grew and the way we are «wired» as beasts (animals)-- we often forget we are mere beasts, part of the animal kingdom here — the way we developed meant that our IQ and our visionary acumen and our creative skills led to our developing a seemingly — I say «seemingly» — unstoppable greed for more and more and more and more.

Democracy therefore becomes no more than a means to satisfy individual greed and indulgence in the face of catastrophe.

The famed physicist and doom monger also fears that «evolution has inbuilt greed and aggression to the human genome», meaning that we might wipe ourselves out before Earth turns into Venus.

Ultimately it means the end of decent and meaningful society and greed and anarchy will prevail.

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

Supported by Waitrose supermarket in the UK, and filmed across the seas, the film shows the greed and politics in the fishing industry and what that has done to the world's — that means our own — stock of fish.

For as long as law has been a profession, and not just a means by which to regulate a civil society, lawyers have been unceremoniously tainted with shades of greed and a Machiavellian, «the ends justify the means» approach to life.

The public interest does not mean the interest of the public in prurient matters, nor the greed of the paparazzi or people selling stories to the newspapers.

So this means the decision was motivated by avarice, insatiable greed for riches, and an inordinate desire to gain and hoard wealth.