Sentences with phrase «than greed at»

It's not a knee - jerk reaction, I tend to try and work backwards from the misery & death to understand the motives behind conflict & war and rarely see anything other than greed at the root.

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Or you could think of it as a version of the greater fool theory — you want to be sure there's at least one bigger sucker than you willing to buy your goodies when you finally get over your growing greed and decide that it's time to go.

The blistering consensus: that in shopping itself at far too rich a valuation and pretending to be more than it was, Wired Ventures fell victim to its own greed and famous arrogance.

Pride, anger, greed, judgmentalism, and gluttony, for example, are condemned all over the place in Scripture (way more than homosexuality), and yet most Christians are content to live in such destructive lifestyles while they point the finger at homosexuals and call down God's curses upon them.

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

Of the more than 600 movies released in this country each year, a substantial number of them are «guilty» of proselytizing on behalf of a worldview that celebrates greed, trivializes violence and winks at sexual activity among people of all ages at all times.

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.

However, much like an episode of the Simpsons where Monty Burns abates the safety inspector's concerns with ambiguity and charm, or where a banking crash is blamed on an individual's greed and selfishness rather than on inadequate regulation and recklessness from those at the top, Wenger will paper over the cracks from now until the end of the transfer window.

as long as this guy monreal areteta flamini and ramsey are the basis of our defence and the link to forward play arsenal will be nothing other than a 4th place team... at best... this has been obvious for 3 years now and the only reason we are in this position is the manager... greed and stupidity are at the root of the problem and a 3 year 8m quid contract is indicative of a club that is rotting at the core

Her new book, «A Course in Deception,» draws on her experiences in science, and weaves a tale of how greed and pressures to publish can lead to even worse outcomes than the sort we write about at Retraction Watch.

Worst of all, he's no good at it; and his obsessive insistence on allowing his robberies to run dangerously overtime — it has more to do with self - destructiveness than with greed — alienates us as much as it does his partners in crime.

The anti-corporate subtext does give the piece a topical heft, though Verbinski and company aren't really going for any grand political statements in this purely popcorn piece other than to state that people on the side of people are good and people on the side of greed at the expense of people are evil.

If you had a predefined profit target set at a 1:2 or 1:3 risk reward ratio, but as price gets close to that target you move it further away because you «think» price will keep going for an even bigger gain... that is greed, and it will almost always result in you making LESS than you would have if you just exited at your predetermined profit target.

There's nothing better than rescuing a Mutt - i - gree ®, one of the wonderful companion animals available at shelters.

Prior to his work at GREE, Shanti accumulated more than twenty years of experience as a games producer, marketer and «international deal person», all of which has proven to be valuable background for a role in corporate development.

With my time at Ruiner, I died a lot more than I'd care to admit, although we can chalk this up to my own careless greed while playing and the fact that the demo was presented on a mouse and keyboard.

The collection on display at the State Hermitage Museum, which includes two diptychs and two triptychs, spans the breadth of Griffiths» artistic concerns for more than a decade, beginning with an ode to corporate greed (21st - Century Boy, 2006), musings on the impact of war upon individual souls (Finest Hour, 2015) and the most recent, never - before - seen The Things They Carried (2016) which references the current refugee crisis with breathtaking urgency.

«It's time for meaningful action rather than ignorance and short - term greed at the expense of our next generation.»

It seems that greed did a better job of making the economy go weak at the knees, than tackling global warming might ever have done.