Sentence examples for mindless greed from inspiring English sources

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This is the wages of unthinking entitlement and mindless greed.

"I'm afraid mindless greed has eaten into the soul of the A.N.C.," he said of his own party.

Not all hungers are alike, and courage shouldn't be confused with mindless greed, or self-sacrifice with self-immolation, particularly because other people can easily get burned.

What Sumption describes is the tragedy of war: France devastated by "the mindless greed and indiscriminate violence of the warrior class" as the conflict reached "a murderous and increasingly pointless military stalemate".

I remember the consequences for the people we seek to represent – the crumbling schools, the inadequate hospital buildings, the faltering transport infrastructure, the nasty mood of get-rich-quick that incubated the mindless greed in the City, for which we are now all paying.

The deformed babies born from mothers who had taken thalidomide during pregnancy were not caused by mindless "greed" on the part of the drug manufacturer.

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As if Brunetti weren't already steaming about the "mindless, atavistic greed" motivating everything from the shabby practices of the banking industry to the irresponsible dredging of the Grand Canal, Leon hits him with a crime that really tries his soul — the murder of a gentle veterinarian who made ends meet by working shifts at a slaughterhouse on the mainland.

The world's economic woes were caused by the mindless malevolence and greed of the economic elite who treat the rest of the world as their fiefdom.

When Chester urges his small flock to realize that "love is our safe haven from that which is brutal, from mindless activity and organized greed," Ethan feels the spirit move him unexpectedly.

Our final winner belongs to a group of native nations that have been battling the mindless Canadian government as it seeks to prioritize industrial greed over long-term social and environmental safety.

Mindless yammer.

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