Sentence examples for greed for a from inspiring English sources

Third is greed for a tax cut -- although our children and grandchildren will be paying for the huge deficit.

Some consumers, and even some software makers themselves, say there is no reason, other than greed, for a company to charge hundreds of dollars for a floppy disk, a cardboard binder and a sheaf of documents.

In other words, FairCoin traded the excitement of volatility and greed for a quiet, long-term stability.

For once, a spot of executive greed for a bigger payout would be good news for shareholders, too.

Settling the matter seems out of the question, with each side accusing the other of lying out of greed for a ball that could bring a million dollars.

At the time in the 1840s when European visitors were denouncing American greed for a fast buck, one of the earliest newspapers April Fools, printed by the Boston Post, proved their point.

As Bottomley emerged from adolescence to maturity he began to show signs of the characteristics that would be much in evidence in his later life: greed for fleshly pleasures, a thirst for fame, spontaneous generosity, combined with a charm that, according to his biographer Julian Symons, could "tempt the banknotes out of men's pockets".

What he said in the movie was "greed, for lack of a better word, is good".

The Wall Streeters loved Mr. Gekko, who declares in the film that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good".

For many days, the jurors seemed to be doing some channeling themselves: summoning their inner Gordon Gekko, the character in the film "Wall Street" best known for the line that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good".

It seems greed, for lack of a better word, was just too good.