And the reader will find that these values are very different from those of the wider, violently acquisitive, ego-based society.
Removing benefits is not obviously the best way to prevent acquisitive crime.
The most acquisitive firms tend to be engineering groups.
We live in an acquisitive society.
Its inhabitants, by nature acquisitive and cautious, economical, tenacious, had learnt to worship the word "smart".
During the latter days of the civil war their acquisitive instincts turned into conservative instincts. They wanted to hold on to what they had.
Advertising encourages consumers to "keep up with the Joneses", namely, it creates an acquisitive society and a demand for material things.