Sentence examples for greedy themselves from inspiring English sources

As he describes it, part of the problem was that they were greedy themselves.

But Greedies themselves depend on having Modests around in order to be viable.

The people who hacked phones to get stories and make money for themselves: greedy, selfish and immoral.

In the postwar years, labor unions became greedy and rewarded themselves with feather-bedding and rigid work rules — turning much of the public against them.

He told Miss Knef he despised the "small-minded, the greedy who called themselves democrats and communists".In her book Miss Knef takes care not to endorse these incorrect views.

In a sop to public anger at greedy financiers paying themselves small fortunes a year after receiving big taxpayer bailouts, the British government today announced it would tax bank bonuses at a rate of fifty per cent.

So the greedy suitors made themselves at home, eating Odysseus's food, drinking his wine and raping his maids.

In our evolutionary past, individuals seen to be selfish or greedy may have found themselves ostracized — or even killed.

It got little support.In the current political climate, members of Congress are under more pressure to distinguish themselves from greedy bankers.

Eighty percent of the 2,366 respondents, questioned mostly by telephone last winter, expressed fears that wealth would turn them into greedy people who considered themselves superior.

But once the advocacy groups succeeded in framing the debate as a contest between themselves and greedy corporate interests, no one bothered to solicit the opinion of local Congolese.