greedily / greedy / avaricious

mercenary / covetous / avaricious / avariciousness / greediness / greedy / covetousness

cancel / pigeonhole / quash / table / kill / shelve / smother up / sit on

quash [a proposal] / pigeonhole [a proposal] / sit on [a proposal] / smother [a proposal] / shelve [a proposal] / table [a proposal]

lay *something on the table / quash / table / pigeonhole / put on the shelf / shelve / sit on

(of the way in which make decisions) firmly / (of the way in which make decisions) with determination / (of the way in which make decisions) resolutely

in a most definite manner / resolutely

dyed-in-the-wool / out-and-out

resolution / devotion

mediate / act as a go-between