"society" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Was it the prosperity of an acquisitive society prepared to forsake children, or the depression which accounted for the inter-war population trends?
- They could be considered an acquisitive society, often accused of thinking of nothing but how to earn money.
- "In our acquisitive society a lot of students already have a lot things," said Laura Gross, director of marketing for American Express Gift Cheques.
- In "Ujamma" he declared: "In acquisitive societies, wealth tends to corrupt those who possess it.
- Rich in Time The basic difference between our acquisitive societies and those of hunter-gatherers isn't a matter of sophistication, Juliet B. Schor suggests, but of desires.
- Tawney opposed what he called the "acquisitive society" that causes private property to be used to transfer surplus profit to "functionless owners" - capitalist rentiers.
- Into their satiric compacters goes all the short-sighted self-obsolescence of an acquisitive society.
- "We live in an extremely acquisitive society," said a model-tall Lauren Bacall lookalike decked out in a few major acquisitions herself.
- We are, after all, an individualistic, acquisitive society with a powerful and vulgar popular culture.
- Save for a few surface evils he sees nothing wrong in an acquisitive society, with its equation of money and virtue, its pious millionaires and erastian clergymen.
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