Sentence examples for capitalist tendencies from inspiring English sources

Officials are also facing an assault from within: the expanding capitalist tendencies of elite athletes, who want to be treated the same as their counterparts in Western countries.

There was, for the moment, a vague consensus that the NEP's admitted strengthening of capitalist tendencies could be compensated for by an even greater strengthening of industry, the proletarian class, and the Soviet government.

WHEN Warren Buffett took over a fading textile company named Berkshire Hathaway in 1965, Mao Zedong was still plotting his Cultural Revolution, which forced anyone suspected of capitalist tendencies into crushing manual labour.

Their names were Queenie and Casino, they told us, and they would be our hosts for a show with a title that promised lots of good fun to anyone of capitalist tendencies: "Money: The Game Show".

Around half a century later, poet Marge Piercy blistered plumbing's capitalist tendencies in To the Pay Toilet: "You strop my anger, especially/ when I find you in restaurant or bar/ and pay for the same liquid, coming and going".

They had reason, since Yin had spent more than two decades of his life in prisons, labor camps and on farms as punishment for his capitalist tendencies.

Viewed through this perspective, the capitalist tendency to isolate an economic process from its antecedents and effects is fundamentally flawed.

Most importantly, if pursued correctly such a potent movement could hark back to the best of Occupy Wall Street including the latter's decidedly anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist tendencies.

In the United States and other capitalist democracies, the tendency has instead been to move increasingly toward fascism: nepotistic, aristocratic, rule.

they're capitalist countries with redistributionist tendencies". It's the kind of preemptive rebuttal one supplies when one knows what their opponent means but would rather spend time attacking something else.

For what football demonstrates more eloquently than any economic tract is how feeble are the self-regulating tendencies of capitalist markets, of how easy it is for industries to succumb to perverse and self-destructive incentives and of the necessity for external intervention by way of regulation and rules to make good those endemic shortcomings.