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Перевод: acquisitiveness

[существительное]
стяжательство; жажда наживы; жадность

Тезаурус:

1. Lancaster's objections to the regime, however, were concerned just as much with domestic affairs: he criticized the queen for her greed and acquisitiveness, singling out for special mention her appropriation of the lordship of Pontefract which had been held by Earl Thomas in right of his wife, He complained that the treasure left by Edward II had been "wastede and born away withouten the wille of Kyng Edwarde his sone, in destruccioun of him and of his folk", and proposed that Mortimer "shouldd dwelle oppon his owen landes".
2. In acquisitiveness and greed there was little to choose between the victors and the vanquished in the political struggles of the 1320s.
3. I have tried to emphasize the positive in this book, and in that spirit I should like to repeat that the longer term counter to fighting, jealousy and acquisitiveness is to train the child, patiently and repetitively, to share, to wait patiently, to see that pulling hair hurts, to co-operate - in other words to be socially sensitive.
4. He no longer fears ridicule or criticism; instead, his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough, that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism, and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed.
5. It had seemed to him perfectly reasonable that she should eventually wish to marry, just as she might choose, in a fit of boredom or acquisitiveness to buy herself a fur coat or a new item of jewellery.
6. By this time the acquisitiveness of the younger Despenser was beginning to fracture the unity of the court, and Audley was one of Despenser's first victims.
7. In the tendency to portray non-violent peoples as lacking the egoism, selfishness, pettiness, and acquisitiveness so typical of the modern world, the issue is less one of distortion of the data, than of greater or lesser degrees of selectivity and emphasis in reporting and analysis.
8. Acquisitiveness was served by marriages, alliances and sheer brute force.
9. The gain is in the emotion of love not in the greed of wanting some other person's love which is only a form of acquisitiveness and immediately defiles love.
10. Some of the objets d'art were bought on her orders, at home and abroad; others she prised out of rich Iranians who often found her acquisitiveness on behalf of the country irksome but impossible to resist.
11. The cultural changes of the Thatcher years - supply-side improvements in management, shopfloor relations and the spirit of acquisitiveness - have resulted in a strong underlying improvement in Britain's economic performance, which the world recognises if the Labour Party does not.
12. If we walk round the towns and villages we will not find the acquisitiveness and competitiveness of modernity.
13. There are three basic urges in first edition collecting - romanticism, acquisitiveness and snobbery.