From Seattle to Phnom Penh, protesters are fighting the incursion of supposedly rapacious multinational corporations. |
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Janofsky alludes to federally mandated spending and to rapacious tax cutting by the states. |
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Victims of egg-plundering skuas, which resemble large rapacious gulls, squawk indignantly. |
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The John Leslie case exposes the media at its sleaziest and most rapacious. |
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Make those rapacious arms dealers, those running dogs of capitalism, pay you some serious money. |
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It's as if memory functions like some swift and rapacious insectivorous plant. |
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In more contemporary terms, an immoderate, rapacious industrialism consumes the consumer. |
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Many sympathised with Dayaks as an indigenous people dispossessed of their forests by rapacious New Order development. |
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Consumer passivity and inertia are the greatest allies of the rapacious banks and other financial institutions. |
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When he carried out a train robbery, he claimed he was defending the small farmer against rapacious railroad magnates. |
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While I do not condone some of the more rapacious acts of Australian companies, I am not so sanguine about local small scale operators either. |
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Instead of spurning these rapacious advances, local authorities were demanding a permanent share of the profits. |
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Charter forests are already being condemned by environmental organizations as a giveaway to rapacious loggers who want to fell national forests. |
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He ignores the fact that workers need the full freedom to organise to defend themselves against the rapacious greed of their employers. |
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Now there are rapacious landlords getting paid by the city to house homeless families. |
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The baying hounds triggered a dim ancestral memory of rapacious wolf packs that was hard-wired somewhere deep inside his brain. |
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These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them. |
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It is quite breathtaking to realise quite how rapacious the industry is and how conceited and vapid are its practitioners. |
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The town is but a decayed, honky-tonk version of the company town, with everything and everybody in it owned by Mr. Potter, the rapacious banker. |
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He drew the link between control over society's resources by a small wealthy elite and this rapacious policy. |
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The economy is collapsing, because of international policies, which are rapacious and stupid. |
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He wrote sympathetically about highlanders under the cosh from rapacious landlords. |
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He might be an evil, undead fiend whose rapacious bloodlust terrorised Europe for centuries. |
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Within them, stories unfold about gangsters, unsuccessful cowboys, and rapacious music producers. |
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The problems of corporate governance are about much more than rapacious egotism. |
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The rapacious company bullied and bought its way into poorer countries by making false promises of cheap fuel supplies. |
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A couple of factors, both internal and environmental, are at play when such rapacious violence spreads like a brushfire. |
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Our shameless, rapacious economic elite keep the Conservatives afloat not out of generosity, but because they expect a return. |
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On the other hand, when the spark disappears we feel separation, and the egoistic and rapacious aspects of our nature appear. |
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No Parsi would want the mystic eye of the vulture to be replaced by the rapacious one of the land shark. |
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Sadly, it is the practices and rapacious appetites of the wealthiest among us that have fouled our collective nest. |
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In Cambodia, thousands were forcibly evicted from their homes following rapacious land grabs by the authorities. |
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Claudel was confronted on all sides by the colonial problem with its brutality and rapacious conquest. |
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The conflicts between rapacious owners and rapacious players may leave fans in the lurch. |
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What can we do to protect us against these rapacious multinationals or else limit the damage? |
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And like the medical profession and the food industry, New York has been spoiled by rapacious profit-mongers and hypercapitalists. |
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Assailing her at every turn has been her rapacious political rival, Tony Abbott. |
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It means the remorseless destruction of local distinctiveness, choice and opportunity by international mega-brands and the rapacious, conniving corporations that own them. |
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I've always thought of Sydney as ravenous, rapacious and ruthless. |
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But this socialist market is just as rapacious as any other. |
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Our lack of a bill of rights makes it extremely difficult for judges to protect our freedoms from a rapacious government intent on destroying them. |
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Where this leaves the more rapacious companies remains to be seen. |
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My normally reserved father turns into a rapacious gourmand around the steaming, redolent pot, reliving his Saskatchewan youth by heaping his plate. |
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Does the idea of watching a doe-eyed woman wolf down rapacious amounts of food make you mad with desire? |
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These early rehearsal scenes see Simmons go for the jugular, verbally undressing his students with rapacious license. |
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Along the way, a succession of other rapacious characters flock to the spindle Gallery. |
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But the principal enemies of peace and justice in the world today are not hare-coursing baronets, but rapacious multinational corporations and their political emissaries. |
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That said, I am bound to say that in our judgment the best way of protecting consumers against rapacious moneylenders is a competitive banking and finance sector. |
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The problem with this expanded property creation scheme, he suggests, is that the property being created is gobbled up by a few rapacious oligopolists. |
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Sounds like a clear cut case of rapacious health care companies heartlessly trying to squeeze the hospitals for the benefit of their greedy shareholders, doesn't it? |
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The well-known words depict a woman seeking sanctuary in a love relationship form a brutal, rapacious man. |
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Buying into the lie that communism is the embodiment of totalitarian brutality, they appeal to the rapacious, blood-drenched imperialist rulers to conform to a bogus ideal of bourgeois democracy. |
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He was a lionhearted seaman, a rapacious plunderer, a masterly navigator, a Janus-faced schemer, a liberator of oppressed tribes, a delusional megalomaniac. |
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As a result, people will pay fortunes for them, and the rapacious covetousness they induce means that orchids are not only the most beautiful large group of plants, but also the most endangered. |
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Just as Labour overcame its distaste for those it would once have seen as rapacious capitalists and wicked press barons, so Tory toffs overcame theirs for people they used to treat as social inferiors. |
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Pantaloon, Italian Pantalone, stock character of the 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte a cunning and rapacious yet often deceived Venetian merchant. |
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With more than one in seven high street stores already lying empty, property experts do not expect the rapacious growth of food chains to fill that void. |
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Mayberry had no banks, however, as squalid and rapacious as mine. |
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By writing this piece, I imagined to be a rapacious flying over mountains. |
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Certainly, no species in the history of the planet has been as rapacious and effective in consuming and displacing other species and entire ecosystems as our own. |
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Let us support the billion small food producers who, with sustainable farming methods, can continue to provide us with healthy food and not be driven into abject poverty by unfair trade policies and rapacious agro-industries. |
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It's plainly rubbish, but it's tenacious, because women who don't conform to expectations of womanly choosiness, who are rapacious, assume they have some male trait they weren't supposed to have. |
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Under the guise of just sounding slogans, leaders had been consolidating their power and became as ruthless, rapacious, and inhumane as those they set about replacing. |
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The most rapacious of these tax collectors was called Leopold. |
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The situation for families is beginning to look better than it has for many years-with rising productivity, less rapacious governments, lower inflation, and better economic performance with higher employment ratios. |
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In the more rapacious commercial or 'predatory' raiding of the present, women suffer more severely yet have less opportunity to help in conflict resolution. |
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Every so often an artist comes along who defies the easy labeling that curators and critics feel obliged to stick on everything under their rapacious gaze. |
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The major parties offer me a mendacious stumblebum or a rapacious liar. |
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