Sentences with phrase «personal greed»

«This case is the age-old tale of the abuse of political power to satisfy personal greed,» prosecutor Tatiana Martins told jurors in Manhattan federal court.

In short: personal greed would get in the way of treating customers fairly.

Most importantly, they had a visceral understanding of what's at stake when we put personal greed ahead of working together to protect our resources.

Dont try to defend these actions to Americans who are aware of the truth.We got along fine before these countries and before personal greed ruined our American society.

Humanity is increasingly endangered by the consequences of out-of-control patriarchal power as well as corporate and personal greed that has emerged from the «money-to-be-made» by inflicting misery on society.

It would be unseemly to suggest that professional ego and personal greed have anything to do with a decision to cherry-pick data when the need arises.

Mobutu Sese Seko (1930-1997), was the Zairean dictator who roasted his country and seared his people on the cruel altar of un-sated personal greed.

Some that can not be eliminated are selfishness, personal greed, and personal ambition.

But to suggest that trying to preserve a BUDGETARY concern of a few thousand dollars is somehow equivalent to personal greed along the lines of taking your millions offshore... I may be misreading the implications here, but if this is what we're being asked to do, it's among the most dishonest bullshit that's ever been slung around an S&R comment thread.

A prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday in the federal corruption trial of State Senator Dean G. Skelos and his son that they would hear «the age-old tale of abuse of political power to satisfy personal greed,» while the pair's lawyers suggested that the government was trying to criminalize both legitimate politics and a father-son relationship.

It's a cautionary tale of collective malpractice and personal greed all converging at a moment which helped set about the global economic downturn, and the production design (by regular Wong Kar-wai collaborator William Chang) opts to remove all walls from the aesthetic equation as a way to emphasise that, even though it's a culture which thrives on secrets and subterfuge, there really is nowhere to hide your dirty laundry.

Nevertheless, personal greed still is involved with any intent to obtain more grant money and more professional advantages through dishonest means.

Wenger at 68 years of age is selfishly holding on to his 8 mill quid salary putting his own personal greed before millions of Arsenal fans.

Whether it was for personal greed, the joy of stealing or to assuage hunger is not a concern for deciding whether someone is guilty of an offence.

The Amazon team was referring to the successful career Mr. Preston has built as an author, and hinted that personal greed was the reason Mr. Preston may have written his letter.

Although not always stated explicitly, the implication is clear: scientists are motivated by personal greed.

Then there's also the more unsavoury aspect, personal greed: Incentives and compensation, particularly in the US, are so lucrative and so biased to raising the EPS and share price at all costs that share buybacks become, consciously or unconsciously, a compelling priority for boards/senior management — often to the detriment of shareholders, EVA and/or even the dividend.

Through poor managers, cheap owners and personal greed, they each found themselves making moves out of Leeds on to a new chapter of their careers.

Motivated by envy and personal greed, West and Zampella went so far as to deliberately undermine the efforts of other developers within the Activision family and then lied about their conduct.

Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara called the case «another example of a political figure in New York state putting his own personal greed ahead of the public's trust.»

What value is that oil, if the government is so overrun with cronyism and personal greed that the oil can't be extracted and moved to market, to be turned into real money?