Sentences with phrase «more acquisitive»

When it ceases or CCJ becomes more acquisitive, the «turn» in uranium could be upon us.

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Most of this research backs what happiness gurus have been telling us since before R. H. Tawney wrote about The Acquisitive Society a century ago: that the constant pursuit of more and better stuff — higher salaries, privilege and the baubles that accompany success — doesn't result in increased happiness.
An entirely different sort of pastoral counsel is appropriate for those acquisitive, competitive persons who are not looking after someone else's resources but trying only to acquire more resources for themselves.
Capitalism does allow more freedom for selfishness and more opportunity for the acquisitive, but some capitalistic systems also allow more freedom and opportunity for everything else as well.
This emphasis upon the present and the past among the poor may be born of a lack of hope; but in some cases it may be a product of an honest cultural difference indicating a more self - accepting and less acquisitive style of life, a style which should be respected and not automatically deemed inferior to the more ambitious future - oriented activities of the middle classes.
This dream, so the narrative reports, will cause settled power to become more aggressively acquisitive.
With equal certainty it may be said that it is wrong to work solely to gratify an acquisitive impulse, amassing more and more riches as the «chief and highest end of man.»
US: Acquisitive Patrón to move into vodka, gin The Patrón Spirits Company, best known for its namesake premium Tequila, looks set to move into the wider white spirits category with the acquisition of... read more
I've discovered in particular that I have a lot more tops than I need, especially as I went through a highly acquisitive «cheap and cheerful» phase a few years ago.
In Matthews's terms, the majority of the acquisitive group have some friendships that are closer and more intimate than the rest - equivalent to the friendships recognized by the «discerning» — but do not exclude as friends people who do not meet these exacting criteria.
The Code of Québec has not changed the process of acquisitive prescription, which may be set up against... [more]
I'm not very acquisitive — the more I design, the less I want things.
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