Sentence examples for declared greed from inspiring English sources

The original volume, a slim, plaid-covered paperback that poked fun at the gin-soaked polo-shirt and loafer-wearing set, started out as a piquant bit of mockery but, like "Liar's Poker," a bestseller about bond traders, and "Wall Street," the movie in which Michael Douglas declared greed to be good, it ended up being adopted as a kind of guidebook for those who wanted in.

In the 1987 movie Wall Street, the character Gordon Gekko famously declared that "greed is good," a line that has come to symbolize the darkest aspects of materialism.

Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas' character memorably declaring that "greed is good".

He officially declares his greed of the money motivated him to enact his plan, though he privately admits to Bob that his true motivation was because of Bob being chosen as Krusty's sidekick instead of Cecil.

IT WAS an "avoidable tragedy" caused by poverty and greed, declared President Olusegun Obasanjo's spokesman.

Three anarchists had driven up from St . Louisspecially to see her. "What we have been living since Reagan is a policy of liberating the forces of greed," she declared.

The bell, Mr. Shelton declared, symbolizes "the validation of greed over mutual aid," whereas the gong is a "call to fight against this injustice".

About 1,250 people had tickets to temporary seats (built for greed's sake) that were declared unusable.

"Shame on Pallotta," declared one critic at the time, accusing him of "greed and unabashed profiteering".

In the edict, Diocletian declared that the current pricing crisis resulted from the unchecked greed of merchants, and had resulted in turmoil for the mass of common citizens.

America's top CEOs -- the clueless millionaires whose greed, ignorance and arrogance drove our economy off a cliff -- have declared their top legislative priority for 2009.