Sentence examples for made greed from inspiring English sources

She made greed respectable.

His appearance in the film, "Wall Street" made greed glamorous, even gave it sex appeal.

In rapid Op-Ed succession, we children of the postwar demographic bulge have been blamed for turning religion into an indulgent free-for-all, for giving elites a bad name and for making greed respectable, or at least acceptable.

Von Stroheim convinced Lehr to let him make Greed first, promising low costs.

If Ronald Reagan accomplished anything it was to make greed a virtue and government a vice in the eyes of many.

Empty suits sit in sterile offices staring at computer screens and making greed-is-good speeches.

Contrast Smith, who announced his resignation from Goldman in the op-ed article, and Siewert, who has just joined up with the greed merchants after working in the administration that made that greed legal.

While the case may be made that greed can motivate college grads to seek careers in finance and consulting, let's not overlook the fact that their choices have been narrowed considerably by the outsourcing of American manufacturing and technical jobs overseas in the past 15 years or so.

Floating voter-grabbing potential: 3/10 Scottish Socialist party Unshaven actor Tam Dean Burn comes across as very scary – like one of those intimidating Taggart villains who doesn't have the slightest fear of DCI Burke – as he draws analogies between the financial crisis and gambling in this Make Greed History appeal.

That makes the greed motive work against itself, since profit maximising is the chief, if not the only, prompt for action in the financial markets.

Because that invisible hand of the marketplace makes individual greed a source of strength, and because if the weak are not "eaten," society itself becomes weaker.