Exempel på avarice

• Through insinuations of avarice, especially incriminating when a tribesman's generosity is a mark of honor, a subtle, ironic inversion of valuation is intimated.

• Inquisitors may well have seen heretics as particularly prone to the sins of avarice and usury.

• What is the end of avarice and ambition, of the pursuit of wealth, of power, and preeminence?

• Thus, the colonial project appeared, at first glance, to be motivated by humanitarian goals as opposed to the commercial avarice of a select few.

• The vice of fauvelling and the muck of avarice are now occupying the throne and the highest position in the court.

• The authors warned against the ' tautological trap ' of theorizing corruption, avarice and ethnicity - yet these are the same categories they go on to use themselves.

• There are links here with penances for avarice or usury.

• The opening of the manuscript is proper to a musical monk, as are the diatribes against avarice and several other godly poems and tracts.

• It could dissolve what was unique, precious and personal, reducing everything to the indiscriminate object of private avarice.

• Or are they, on the contrary, scattered over the face of the country as avarice or chance may have happened to cast their own lot, or that of their predecessors?

• Through the combination of illustration and text, their physical attractiveness and rarity was raised, beyond scientific scrutiny and taxonomic exactitude, into the realms of aesthetics and avarice.

• Friendship, love and even avarice give way before it.

• Avarice needs to be made innocuous in the eyes of society, in order for the market to operate effectively.

• It may arise from envy, malice, avarice, covetousness and the like.

• Civil wars are also fuelled by the avarice for oil, diamonds and other raw materials that are used in western countries to make money.