Sentences with phrase «one's greed»
In fact, compare Smith with any one of hundreds of other contemporary «heroes» — selfish, shallow, arrogant people who habitually put their appetites, their egos and their greed ahead of all else.
SPORTS
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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.
GAMING
We are saying: keep your bottles, keep your processing of cow/soy/whatever products, keep your packaging, and keep your greed for profit at my and my baby's expense.
PARENTING
Twenty-three years after Gordon Gekko told us greed was good, Oliver Stone revives everyone's favorite slick huckster for «Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.»
MOVIES & TV
I'd like to see you take your greed elsewhere and not using mothers and babies but there will always be fools who will line up to fill your incompetent pockets nicely.
PARENTING
I do exclusive / pocket listings for an investor because of his greed, not mine.
REAL_ESTATE
Her obsession to reunite with her former husband is complicated by her new look and his greed.
MOVIES & TV
«I fell right into it and my greed took me down,» Painter said.
BUSINESS
His cleverness was matched only by his greed — so great is his love for treasure that even his specter will fight to the bone to protect his booty.
TECHNOLOGY
Proulx's inimitable genius is her creation of characters who are so vivid - in their greed, lust, vengefulness, or their simple compassion and hope — that we follow them with fierce attention.
BOOKS
They are in it only for the money, and in their greed they treat animals as a cash crop deserving of no favors, just torture.
PETS
The predator paints the children's attempts to intervene as «proof» of their greed.
MONEY
When talked to afterward in Frostown, Cubyrinth, or Sparkleton if the player is at that point already, Rouge apologizes for letting her greed get the better of her and mentions how Bowser and Eggman gave her the slip.
GAMING
Despite the hordes of critics who have verbally assaulted Amazon for its greed in the Hachette dispute, an article for Forbes today demonstrated the outcome of the current contract negotiation holds a certain percentage of Amazon's revenue in the balance.
BOOKS
The problem is that its greed comes at the cost of human lives.
ENVIRONMENT
Are women the cause of all that or should we blame most of the online dating agencies for their greed in promoting that thought?
DATING
Why, because of their greed, you see the way the frequent flyer system is going, in most cases you have to pay a fee to get an award, if you want a ticket in a week you have to pay a lot of money.
TRAVEL
If so, maybe we could quantify how our greed negatively impacts our team.
SPORTS
«Hiram Monserrate was undone by his greed and now will pay the price,» said city Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn.
POLITICS
Backyard breeders and mills, face the devastating results of your greed — get a real job.
PETS
As they start to perform their stunts, you witness both man who were once school yard friends start to turn on each other as their inhibitions dissolve and their greed begins to possess them.
MOVIES & TV
Many are wondering why Thomas was so «blatant» with his greed, and what Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said: «As we allege, Mayor Thomas used his campaign and inaugural accounts as personal piggybanks.
POLITICS
Consequently, you either need clients who think like you do and agree with you, or clients that have made enough money with you in the past that their greed overwhelms any trepidation they might have in your portfolio choices.
MONEY
Those bright young things at the various banks who thought it a good idea to cash in on «subsidised «(ie stolen) money and provided finance for wind farms deserve our contempt and then total disgust at suggesting they now be «grandfathered» for their greed, ignorance and negligence (failing to do their due diligence on effectiveness of wind farms).
ENVIRONMENT
Thanks to the drunken negligence of the crew, the ship catches fire, and it is only upon learning that his son has sneaked aboard that Tracy realizes the consequences of his greed.
MOVIES & TV
The point being brought out in all of these verses is that these people were greedy, and they needed to repent and turn from their greed by being generous, honest and content.
RELIGION
Those focused solely on increasing their wealth trip themselves up with their greed, or turn into gullible fools — they always forget, and must always re-learn, how difficult it is to recover from losses.
MONEY
He may not be winning any «best Christian» awards for his greed or lack of tact, but he would do for honesty.
RELIGION
Instead of crying out your greed and fear, you should first educate yourself on what actually happened three years ago and why it came to that.
REAL_ESTATE
Backward compatibility would kill PSNow, and we all know that Sony puts their greed above all else.
GAMING
Call it greed, the home run factor, or whatever for some reason it is difficult to sell winners.
BUSINESS
Family courts across our country are in support of alienation to feed their greed for title IV D incentives to states.
RELATIONSHIPS
We and our blessed and foolish land need not be bound to our idolatries or regrets, our greeds or fears.
RELIGION
So I think there are reasons to be optimistic about our greed and stupidity not killing nearly as many people as it could have.
ENVIRONMENT
The Way of Jesus can save me from my gossip, my judgmentalism, my grudges, my worries, my greed, my hypocrisy, my self-centeredness, my hate, my misplaced loyalties, my prejudices, and my stubborn belief that enough stuff can make me happy.
RELIGION
In a new blog post, the analytics firm argues that «the loot box controversy hampered Star Wars Battlefront II out of the gate» as shown by the game's monthly active users compared to its predecessor's, and that the resulting dumpster fire has caused publishers to rethink lootboxes and self-regulate or at least modulate their greed — an effect we've already seen in the MMO industry too.
GAMING
The Right in their greed was oblivious to it.
RELIGION
How much of their greed can we tolerate.»
LAW
When Labour wins there will be a reckoning for those who thought they could get away with asset stripping our industry, crashing our economy through their greed and ripping off workers and consumers.
POLITICS
Our net worth allocation is our greed and fear gauge because it keeps us from buying too much of a particular asset when it's high and not buying enough when it's low.
BUSINESS
Cameron's obstinate defence of Maria Miller against the large majority of his own party and the public who want to be rid of her for her greed, arrogance and sheer callous disregard for decent standards in public life needs some explaining.
POLITICS
It was desperate for the contract, so its greed prompted it to pledge security personnel it could not provide.
POLITICS
They make terrible investments when their greed and desire to conform overwhelm considered analysis.
MONEY
By not waiting for the morning, when most people are at work, they put potentially hundreds of adults and children at risk through their greed and poor planning.
INSURANCE
What you've got to do is focus on your greed for less.
BUSINESS
Can not help but wonder if Cadet Bonespurs call for death penalty for «drug dealers» will be applied to the pharmaceutical companies that intentionally cause high levels of addiction based upon their greed?
POLITICS
We're happy to help make the most of their greed by taking up to 50 % cash deposits and charging them interest when they hedge.
BUSINESS
He has lost his honor with his greed for power and money.
SPORTS
Self-righteous doomsters lick their lips as they list the horrors rushing towards us as a direct result of our greed and selfishness.
ENVIRONMENT
This brings about a life and death fight between the bewildered tugboat crew and the aliens, as the crew is caught between their greed to collect their salvage booty and their instincts for survival.
MOVIES & TV