Sentences with phrase «whose greed»

Such attorneys will be the most effective in pursuing your suit against the tire company whose greed and negligence has caused you so much pain and suffering.

They complain about taxes, primarily to assuage the expectations of Americans, whose materialism they share, but whose greed they find perplexing, somewhat narcissistic, and, in some cases, oddly self - destructive.

A series of events lead to their civilization co-opted by Lord North (Tom Hiddleston), whose greed lays waste to every thing in his path.

There's a menagerie of supporting fauna, each with their own recurring gag: from a cockerel who's astonished every morning to find that the sun has come up, to a somewhat camp Pigling Bland whose greed always gets the better of his cultivated manners.

Based on a true story about a small - time, self - possessed personal - injury attorney whose greed entangles him in a case that threatens to destroy him.

At the end of their first week of witnesses, federal prosecutors sought to refocus attention on Silver as they continued to create a portrait of a powerful political figure whose greed they allege led to multiple corruption schemes.

This is doubly the case with Paul Singer, whose greed recently caused the entire economy of Argentina to falter.

We need U.S. Senators, members of Congress and state legislators who have the guts to take on the big money interests whose greed is destroying the American middle class.

But such folly is recorded in the OT Israelites whose greed drove them to give up their relatively egalitarian social system and to emulate the neighboring Amorites with their disparities from fabulous wealth to abject poverty.

Not exact matches

Wills says that unlike the popes of old, whose overriding sins were greed, venality, and lust for temporal power, the modern popes, beginning with Pius IX, recruit Catholics into «structures of deceit» about Church doctrine and discipline.

I am convince that they are more Americans led by God's love than those whose motivation is fueled by greed and bigotry and hatred.

Upton Sinclair wrote a book called The Jungle, whose real impact lay not in its revelation of human greed but in its portrayal of the inhuman conditions in which sausages are made.

Beyond that our main concern must be to see that man, whose folly drove him from the Garden of Eden, does not commit the blasphemous act of destroying, whether in fear or in anger or in greed, the great and lovely world in which, even in his fallen state, he has been permitted by the grace of God to live.

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

It's under the control of money hungry individuals whose only real concern is lining their pockets as much as they can get away with whilst neglecting or damn right ignoring the multitude of issues that surround the football side of the club that are a direct result of the aforementioned greed.

«Despite growing public support for this measure, the Coalition Government continues to ignore this and any other strategy which involves targeting those whose recklessness and greed caused the financial crisis in the first place.»

Our communities can no longer suffer from the greed of CEO campaign contributors whose only interest is to make profits.

Even Adam Smith, whose Wealth of Nations in 1776 supposedly established the foundations for the «greed is good» philosophy, knew better.

Again, lower - class subjects whose attitudes toward greed had been nudged in this way became just as likely as their wealthier counterparts to sympathize with dishonest behavior (taking home office supplies, laying off employees while increasing their own bonuses, overcharging customers to drive up profits).

Besides that astute play, this is one stubborn dude whose unmovability is a study in greed.

Considered one of the greats of Canadian cinema, «The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz» is a modest effort from director Ted Kotcheff that details the rise and fall of a young Jewish kid whose aspirations and greed end up cutting him off from his friends and family.

In Short: A solid online shooter ruined by thoughtless corporate greed, whose malign practises could damage the whole of gaming if they are not kept in check.

And this time, Stone and screenwriters Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff aren't going to let anyone get confused: Wall Street is evil, greed is bad, and Shia LaBeouf is so believable as a man whose testicles have dropped.

Rather, the main character of the film is undeniably Thorin Oakenshield, whose character arc sees him corrupted (almost jarringly quickly) by «dragon's sickness,» which is essentially greed and paranoia fostered by possession of the dragon's immense wealth.

Withered, nasty creatures, whose personal greed / self - interest has turned them into something devoid of anything noble and good.

The entire episode is an object lesson in IP and copyright among writers who don't understand the tools and technologies they use — and whose sense of self - entitlement (or greed) runs roughshod over the social and cultural principles of their own medium: books.

Though many things have been repaired, there are a lot of people whose lives were practically ruined by their own greed, and the greed of others.

Killing EVERY free roaming cat would not save this, or any other, species whose habitat is being destroyed by our wreckless and insatiable, ill - considered greed.

Does Reverend Billy, whose comic performances critique consumerism and corporate greed, qualify as an artist, when he has never defined himself as such (nor has any art establishment)?

The greed was excessive, but in his defense he and Chesapeake co-founder Tom Ward (whose self - dealing was also highlighted in the book) did create a multi-billion dollar company from scratch that became one of the leading energy producers in North America.

The ideals of Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Schrodinger and thousands of others, were in shreds because of greed, stimulated by the prizes of research funding to be awarded to those whose science was weak and whose integrity was weaker, all in the name of a political fantasy, but upon which fed an incresingly hungry industry — «Climate Change».

His portrait shall forever hang in that shameful gallery of treasonous Americans whose ideology, vanity, and greed drove them into the arms of foreign reactionaries determined to scuttle the American project.

I'm not even a regular scientist, much less a (sound of choir, ray of sunlight from parted clouds) «CLIMATE Scientist», so don't really know what goes on behind the curtain, but I will say that it is increasingly apparent to me that much of «science» (save that bastion of purity, mathematics), has been corrupted by greed, a political agenda (whose operatives are dupes of the former, really, viz..

Part of the reason the law - firm ecosystem has changed so dramatically in a single generation is greed: The most profitable partners steadily discarded their underachieving colleagues, because they didn't want to share the spoils... Within the next decade or so, according to one common hypothesis, there will be at most 20 to 25 firms that can operate this way — the firms whose clients have so many billions of dollars riding on their legal work that they can truly spend without limit.