Sentences with phrase «rapacity of»

I urge you to read the notes to appreciate the sheer rapacity of these energy companies.

The rapacity of top - tier collectors in the present gilded age effectively makes the market value of the Anderson Collection incalculable.

Shareholders may dislike the piggish rapacity of Griffith & Dear, but it will now be (mostly) working in their favour!

Nor do his conduct and rhetoric since the election demonstrate a concern to protect the poor against the rapacity of the rich.

The main thrust of his new book, and its most powerful and original feature, consists of a series of highly specific charges about the greed and rapacity of Jewish organizations seeking compensation for victims of the Holocaust, especially the WJC.

Not exact matches

Their allegiance was met by this unholy alliance of perfidious greed devolving rapidly into the audacity of vituperative unparalleled predatory rapacity.

for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity.

He did not hesitate to condemn in stinging terms those who «cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity.»

Neither the «violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind» nor «the mean rapacity... of merchants and manufacturers» can be «corrected» (though the latter «may very easily be prevented from disturbing» the tranquillity of others) because they are evils for which «the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy».

Former President Rawlings captured it aptly in a statement in which he was convinced that, by 2008, Ghanaians were being governed ``... by the rule of a morally bankrupt and visionless elite that has transformed arrogance into an art, glorifying corruption in style, and raping the country's resources with shameless rapacity.»

A story of stockbroker rapacity in the anything - goes»90s?

Whilst City of Hope charted the sectional consequences of»80s economic rapacity, Sunshine State (2002) sees the arrival of the property developers as more a force of nature visiting economic and personal turmoil upon a Florida resort.

And like art, it seems, we must enjoy the suggestive indolence of Jesse watching Céline as together they cart their way through Vienna in Before Sunrise; or fawn over the crisp intensity of Count Laszlo de Almásy as he, soaking in rapacity, watches Katharine Clifton in The English Patient.

Within campuses, high amounts of cheating, drinking and sexual rapacity on the part of students raise questions about whether these institutions deserve to be supported, indeed given tax - free status.

Such rapacity is pretty unprecedented... Again I ask, what idiot investors signed up for this kind of shafting?

But how perfectly Lucas deploys them here to suggest both ecstasy and rapacity; think of John Donne's hands roving «behind, before, above, between, below».

They see it as evidence neither of global capitalism's essential fault nor of humankind's shortsightedness and rapacity; instead, it arrives as an opportunity for humans finally to come into their own.