| 词汇 | example_english_acquisitive |
| 释义 | Examples of acquisitiveThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Equality cannot prevail if individuals behave as ' 'acquisitive maximizers in daily life' ' (p. 140). We have approached the list by identifying offences that are inherently acquisitive and known to generate large profits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I wonder whether when he used the words "the consumer society", that was, in itself, a euphemism for the acquisitive society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, most of the money comes from rich and acquisitive individuals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He talks about the majority of crime being committed by drug users and refers to it as acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Recent evidence suggests that the deterrent effect of drug testing can have an impact on offending rates and in particular, on acquisitive crimes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The evidence shows that there is a link between acquisitive crime and drug taking. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are still quite a number of rather wicked, acquisitive people in the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When it comes to the point, our competitors' commercial considerations and all the mundane acquisitive instincts come to the surface. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Good empirical evidence suggests that approximately half of all property crime—burglary and other acquisitive crime—is committed by people seeking to feed their drug habit. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Equally, it is not possible to blame the acquisitive society for the rise in crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although crime is disturbing wherever it occurs, a sudden upsurge of serious disorder or acquisitive crime in a peaceful rural area can be very disturbing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The psychology of a capitalist society is that we have selfish acquisitive motives running rampant throughout all sections of the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The links between drugs and, especially, acquisitive crime are now so firm that no one can doubt them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here is an honest endeavour to find an answer to the acquisitive society, also with freedom, and the mixed enterprise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We believe in a less acquisitive society—a society that is gentler and that associates more quietly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then there is the reduction of the opportunity for acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason is that the old-age pensioners about whom we are talking are not acquisitive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that the acquisitive society may encourage dissatisfaction, discontent and envy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The new society must have as its purpose the satisfaction of the needs of many and not merely the acquisitive instincts of the few. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that they came with an acquisitive purpose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their problems are compounded by a selfish and acquisitive culture to the creation of which we are all party. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know that they are very unpleasant experiences, but most people fear crimes of violence much more than acquisitive crimes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a naturally acquisitive desire for land by local authorities, and once having acquired it they find it extremely difficult to give it up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was asked what assessment we had made of the clear link between drug misuse and acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any explanation of this kind—the explanation either of poverty or of the wickedness of the acquisitive society or any such explanation—is necessarily superficial. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the past few decades there has been an enormous increase in all the ugly aspects of our vulgar, acquisitive society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, after two years, the rate of acquisitive crime more than halved and involvement in drug selling had been substantially reduced. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were always a number of acquisitive and aggressive men in the tribe who wanted to eat the seed necessary for the next harvest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The aggressive psychopaths almost always offended again, but aggressive psychopaths were far more often convicted of acquisitive than of aggressive crimes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Despite the acquisitive society in which we live to-day, the highest form of investment is investment in man. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We live in an acquisitive society and the answers have never been found. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think that it is a very convincing argument that one county should be labelled acquisitive and the other non-acquisitive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The answer surely lies eventually in moving towards a major break with the materialistic, acquisitive, greedy sort of society that we have at present. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are stimulating pressures in our acquisitive society which make for militancy and unreason. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As a result of that, there is far less acquisitive crime and far fewer drug addicts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The greatest single cause of crime stems from those who are addicted to drugs and are funding their drug habit by acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Harm reduction—reducing damage to the health of the addict and damage to society through acquisitive and violent crime—may consist of giving a substitute drug. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that we are living in a more greedy and acquisitive society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would be nervous that, first, it would be diverted from that duty in the place of boards that perhaps develop acquisitive tendencies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Neutrality in the past has not always proved a sure shield against the territorial ambitions of acquisitive powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think that it is now called acquisitive procurement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A large proportion of offenders—especially for acquisitive crime—go into prison as drug addicts and are helped to come off their drug addiction. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot make this country richer unless we appeal openly to the acquisitive appetite among the producers of wealth. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Another of those vague "slogan" questions imputes subversive motives to all who do not accept the main elements of our acquisitive society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We need to be as effective as possible when dealing with such acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe that it could lead to a sea change in the fight against acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Crudely speaking, illegal drug use is linked to acquisitive crimes, while alcohol is linked to driving offences and violent crimes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a natural, primitive, capitalist, acquisitive instinct and a need for hygiene. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Home-loving women with imagination, who might have exercised some restraint on the acquisitive instincts of the builders and architects, are excluded from the preliminary discussions in committee. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Research shows that there is a strong link between drugs and acquisitive crime, and that treatment can play a significant part in reducing both drugs misuse and associated crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have to bear in mind that the treatment must be available where it is needed most, in the areas with the highest levels of acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We would not wish that to be possible, because the criminal lifestyle regime is intended to catch only offenders who have been involved in acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They see with a clarity which some of us seem to lack that an acquisitive society has the seeds of death in itself, but they can scarcely make a protest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The contents of these houses, and, indeed, much of the contents of our museums and galleries, are really the accumulation, the trophies and the bric-a-brac of that grandly acquisitive age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many takeovers are purely acquisitive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We hope to publish early in the new year important research which indicates that there is indeed a very strong relationship between the misuse of drugs and acquisitive crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is that wrong, selfish, acquisitive or unreasonable? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When someone as naturally right-wing and acquisitive as me is compelled to say that figures such as that are an outrage, the matter needs to be tackled. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Recorded crime figures include statistics on drugs offences and on acquisitive crimes, such as burglary, but do not record whether the latter are related to an offender's drug habits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cite that simply to support my assertion that it does not hold water in logic to argue that the acquisitive society can be blamed for the growth in crime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The trust is not acquisitive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The same would be true where an offender was convicted of one offence of any description, from which he had benefited, and had two past convictions of any acquisitive offence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With more leisure and more time to make buying decisions, society could become more acquisitive—not just in the sense of acquiring consumer goods but in the sense of acquiring compassion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of the most insiduous evils that democracy has had to encounter at all stages of history has been that of the appeal to the acquisitive instincts of people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was acquisitive and altruistic, proud and modest, but beneath it all humble and compassionate. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Studying the isolated central nervous system; a report on 35 years: more inquisitive than acquisitive. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By following the same method, namely, deduction through collection, he divides the acquisitive art into "possession taking" and "exchanging goods", to which sophistry belongs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The same is true with the collection of learning, recognition, commerce, combat and hunting, which can be deduced into the kind of "acquisitive art". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By giving one destroys those acquisitive impulses that ultimately lead to further suffering. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They could be considered an acquisitive society, often accused of thinking of nothing but how to earn money. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the 1990s, the company began an acquisitive growth strategy, purchasing an average of two competitors a year. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Acquisitive projective identification, where someone takes on the attributes of someone else. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Although sympathetic to his characters, he highlights their insular, snobbish, and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Acquisitive crimes to pay for the chemicals are inevitable if the survivor is unable to find employment. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Activities are distinguished as conjunctive, protective, injurious, competitive, divulgative, gregarious, repetitive, initiative, acquisitive, selective; the social synergies as conformity, interdependence, cephalization, co-ordination, conscience, etc. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Acquisitive prelates occasionally held multiple major benefices. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Acquiring a piece of movable or immovable property by prescription is known as acquisitive prescription while losing property or a right is known as extinctive prescription. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Democracy depends on naval power; naval power in turn depends on the control of capital resources; ergo a democracy will tend to be aggressively acquisitive. 6. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The document outlines a fifteen-point belief system, which, in addition to a secular outlook, opposes acquisitive and profit-motivated society and outlines a worldwide egalitarian society based on voluntary mutual cooperation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A group of bored patients waiting outside the cafeteria for lunch early were said by a doctor to his students to be experiencing oral-acquisitive psychiatric symptoms. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. After a visit to a village fair, the two men become more acquisitive and jealousies break out over the now pregnant woman who simply ups and leaves. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Can the transfer, for example, of acquisitive or consumerist perspectives be simply quantified? There is a widespread belief that addiction to illegal drugs is the cause of a significant proportion of acquisitive crime. If the glow is that of a tourist appreciating the sights of an unknown land, it burns with the acquisitive desire of a consumer. In my view 'arrested desire' conflicts directly with the treatment of landscape as property, signalling a renunciatory rather than an acquisitive approach to it. All subjects were incarcerated for violent offences, but had extensive criminal histories for acquisitive offences. They also found that when drug use became heavier so their acquisitive criminal activity intensified. The viewer's yearning for intimacy with the past and his acquisitive desire are both sublimated in an aesthetic contemplation devoid of either physical contact or possessiveness. The socio-historically significant artistic innovations do not reside in city comedy's anti-acquisitive attitudes, which are quite traditional, but in the new form in which these attitudes are expressed. Thus, although an individual user may be spending large amounts each week on drugs, he or she will typically finance only a minority of this expenditure by acquisitive crime. There is warm friendship and cold acquisitive greed. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English He may be a little acquisitive and unduly prehensile, possibly, but he is intelligent and wide awake. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Relevant development determines the area within which local authorities can exercise their acquisitive powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are out of that simple acquisitive society and into something which is dynamically mightier than anything that has existed before in history. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are the possessors of the acquisitive urge to a high degree, yet lack the ability to control their spending. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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