Sentence examples for wave of greed from inspiring English sources
It unloosed a wave of greed and violence.
When enough people stand up and say, "No, you can't do that here anymore!" and follow up with local laws and public pressure to forbid these destructive practices in their counties, the wave of greed can and will be turned back.
If we ignore the root cause of zero-hours contracts then like the inhabitants of ancient Pompeii this country shall be buried not under a mountain of molten lava but under a wave of corporate greed.
A recent study by Boyan Jovanovic and Peter Rousseau** notes a "monopolisation wave" at the end of the 19th century; a "scale-economies wave" in the 1920s; a "decade of greed wave" in the 1980s; and a "globalisation wave" starting in the late 1990s.
They also suggested that allowing the merger would further European goals of bringing changes in the financial services sector because NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse had "shown themselves to be a bridgehead of integrity and transparency against a tidal wave of opacity and greed that permeates the less-regulated segments of financial markets".
Once you get past the current wave of sheer ignorant greed, I promise you, you'll find a lot of interesting things going on.
The third wave of spying shows much less greed.
Had I factored in the self-destructive culture of greed, I could have spent considerably less time handing out leaflets and waving placards and spent considerably more time on the champagne aspect of the "champagne anarchist" life style.
At risk because of "greed".
That's the power of greed".
