Exempel på cupidity

• Curiosity had been her ruling motive, far more than cupidity. 

• Deciding, however, that his valuables were sufficiently protected, and that nothing was left out to excite the cupidity of a man to whom he had not been properly introduced, the person from Hartford went forth with a final retort. 

• The sight of so much wealth arouses the cupidity of the knaves, and they at once brew a plot to murder the huntsman in his sleep. 

• The wealth of her merchant princes had often tempted the cupidity of the despots of Asia. 

• This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business. 

• Her theme is that a mixture of ignorance and cupidity on both sides produced a great many boomerang effects.

• Other allegations had been motivated by cupidity, 819/2/39.

• The motives of his backers were hardly more edifying, moved as they evidently were by a mixture of political ambition and cupidity.

• The circumstances were unique and it is hard to judge to what extent inexperience, cupidity or a combination of the two were to blame for the dificulties.

• I do not think it is mere cupidity and the desire to possess a valuable part of territory which they have not hitherto possessed.

• They think they have something up their sleeve which is far better—something that will appeal to the cupidity of mankind.

• Then as the men's cupidity was raised so was the output diminished.

• What is that but an appeal to the cupidity of certain classes?

• It could not be said that it was due to a mercenary attitude, or cupidity on the part of the legal profession.

• You will not succeed in carrying conversion through by appealing merely to cupidity.

• They seemed to me to symbolise a measure of speculative cupidity and bad planning which has hardly been equalled this century.

• But the misdemeanours of these people would not have been possible without the cupidity and willing compliance of certain merchant banks.

• Of these the most important is its appeal to cupidity, but it may also justly be described as a self-regarding and essentially uncreative activity.

• If they help steer a company into healthy profitability they are charged with cupidity and favouring the interests of a particular class.

• These men again and again condemn cupidity in the rich, and appeal to precisely the same feelings in the poor.