rapacious

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  • In our case, how did the rapacious tyrant arrange the theft?

  • It is also in such merchant states that a rapacious state or misguided policies are most likely to cause harm to and alienate the peasantry.

  • Victorian studies has been not just capacious, but even rapacious.

  • The vulture as landlord is more dreadfully rapacious than he is as a bird.

  • The word 'cruelty' must be taken in the broad sense, and not in the rapacious physical sense.

  • It is also a matter of everyday comment that the elders through whom the kola flows in exchange for favours, and indeed the chiefs themselves, are a rapacious lot.

  • No rapacious elites dependent on taxes for their power and incomes had developed to lend their conditional support for fiscal innovations, followed inevitably by uplifts in taxation.

  • The hydra-headed monster of nationalism is a rapacious beast which, when given the opportunity to feed, tends to devour peoples, populations and nations.

  • Those who are fortunate are catered for by rapacious landlords who can earn a great deal of money by letting accommodation on a short-term basis.

  • It is the basic economics of exploitation — when the opportunity is available, in times of shortage, the private sector is rapacious.

  • Some public utility companies are extraordinarily rapacious profit-making concerns.

  • That will be admitted among even the most rapacious of financiers.

  • If that is so, it will not satisfy the grievances of even the least rapacious of men.

  • They are totally incapable of deciding whether they are rapacious commercial enterprises or whether they have a more responsible rôle in the economy.

  • On this rapacious approach there are two checks.

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