Sentence examples for greedy concern from inspiring English sources

Silver becomes a secondary consideration in this incarnation of Treasure Island, and treasure hunting a greedy concern in the face of so much suffering.

"My family and friends here suffer the consequences of this whole greedy business". Blas Espinosa shares Nieto's concern.

But lately these characters are looking like greedy rogues whose concern for others rivals Marie Antoinette's.

Comics represented poor value for pocket money to a greedy, speedy reader concerned primarily with the fatness of purchased reading matter, so I never experienced the excitement of agitating for the new Beano on a weekly visit to the newsagent.

It's not necessarily that people who work in NYC or SF are greedy or amorally concerned with making money.

that wasn't here only a few years ago... is the biggest risk for [Russia's] development and even survival". And while business owners may be concerned about greedy and corrupt state bureaucrats and the deplorable decline of the rule of law -- so concerned that capital outflow from Russia has grown fourfold since last year -- they will not talk about these concerns in public.

But admiration for this charming fixer is tempered by concern about the greedy family he has served.

If parents don't raise the subject, Ms. Hetzer said, grown children should dismiss any concerns about appearing greedy and broach the issue themselves.

The moral climate, the educational and social climate, and greedy and messianic big-government politics concern me.

"THE TOOTHACHE OF KING FARFAN," a children's operetta from Latin America featuring 20 life-size puppets by Jose Lopez, concerns a selfish and greedy king.

The deal, which will bring King and his greedy relatives a windfall, isn't his primary concern, though.