Sentence examples for not so greedy from inspiring English sources

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We are not so greedy that we will take their promise to protect our benefits as a bribe to allow them to wreck the Social Security system for our descendants.

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But the fact is, people weren't so greedy.

For each greedy trial lawyer there is a not-so-greedy defense lawyer in opposition.

We need not be so greedy of our days -- why not take as many as are really good, and leave the rest to our children?

People can forgive a blustering bully if they decide he's a big-hearted tough guy; not so a greedy bully who surrounds himself with shakedown artists.

At one point Martha thinks: "He is not so much greedy for women as blind to what he thinks he needs and so he grabs at everything".

If Mr Fastow's winnings are cited in court, he needs only to compare his fees with those of investment bankers arranging mergers and acquisitions, underwriting shares, and putting together fancy financial deals.Compared with other rainmakers of the late 1990s, Mr Fastow might not look so greedy.

"I wish more of them were a little stronger to notice what we're doing and not be so greedy".

The hunger for progress has been blunted somewhat by the power of Obama's triumph, as though we dare not be so greedy as to think, ok, what next?

People think the prices of high-end collectible wines such as 2005 Bordeaux will continue to drop as the economy worsens (they will, but not by much), and that next time, producers won't be so greedy when they set their prices, should they see a spectacular vintage.

Don't be so greedy.

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