| While some have embraced democratic principles, others continue to rule through rapacity, despotism, and corruption. |
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| But don't think for a second that the Fed has some kind of monopoly on a situation where rapacity pervades honest reason. |
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| No situation, however obscure, or however sacred, escaped the rapacity of the enemy. |
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| It is not an effective instrument for protecting our people from the greed and rapacity of outsiders. |
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| It's been brewing for more than a year, this public resentment of the rapacity of police ticketing for traffic offences. |
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| It shows a society that, white or red, encourages rapacity, self-deception and slavish respect for authority. |
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| It's precisely that rapacity, that appetite, that makes them who they are, that allows them to recognize themselves. |
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| White rapacity, hypocrisy, and cant are hard to stomach, but so are cannibalism, headhunting, and the refined torture of captives. |
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| In India the factiousness and feebleness of native princes combined with the rapacity of the French and English East India Companies to create a volatile situation. |
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| The State University is exposed to the rapacity of the party spoilsman. |
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| The idea is that, armed with information, once-passive shareholders will curb managers' rapacity. |
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| In the process, the Co-op has unearthed treachery in its own ranks and unscrupulous rapacity in the City. |
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| Instead, the families' objections have more to do with Mr Murdoch's perceived populism, editorial meddling and rapacity. |
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| It is the taxpayer, both in Europe and in America, who has to pay for this rapacity and dishonesty. |
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| Under the guise of justice and fairness we are being made to swallow outright protectionism, discriminating business practices and rapacity. |
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| Against the values of greed and rapacity that the European Union is based on, let us respond with class solidarity! |
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| It is anti-Leninist to obscure the national and ultranational rapacity of any imperialist power. |
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| Though he complains bitterly of her rapacity and hardheartedness, Tibullus seems to have remained subjugated to her for the rest of his life. |
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| Morton was elected to Mar's office and proved in many ways the most effective of James's regents, but he made enemies by his rapacity. |
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| The killer comparison is with Asia, where many countries suffered from the same colonial humiliations and rapacity that independent Africa customarily blamed for its early failings. |
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| Even as we cheer for her stamina, we shrink from her rapacity. |
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| Exploitation is therefore left in the hands of organised groups whose rapacity and desire to despoil the continent as fast as possible leads them to create the complex situations within the states of which we are all aware. |
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| The culture of greed and rapacity that pervades many public companies is corrosive and destructive and the cause of the proliferation of scandals that abound in the industrialized world. |
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| You who are here to celebrate the excellence of the best of Canadian architecture do not need to be lectured about the ruthless greed and meaningless rapacity of most development in Canada. |
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| The masters of the carracks espied the bark, and found out to whom she belonged: the fame of Landolfo and his vast wealth had already reached them, and had excited their natural cupidity and rapacity. |
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| A number of the neighbouring tribes were astonished at the vigour and rapacity of this attack, as a result of which they submitted to the Carthaginians. |
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| My father fell a victim to the rapacity of the Waivode, who insinuated this charge against him in order to possess himself of the lands belonging to my parent. |
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| Alarmed by this disaster and by the fury of the province which he had goaded into war by his rapacity, the procurator Catus crossed over into Gaul. |
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