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In the end, it was not rapacious politicians who killed the Company, but the greed and power of its managers and shareholders.

Modern Americans -- shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media --like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.

Several of the Arab countries represented in the President's office needed the United States to fend off threats from rapacious neighbors.

Those were not the consideration that drove tHis rapacious beast from His den into the open!

Its rapacious demand for commodities has been one of the main causes of the rise in commodity prices.

Perhaps, given their image as rapacious capitalists, there may be a touch of calculation about their efforts.

The lovers attract the attentions of a rapacious gang, who descend on them, searching for non-existent booty.

The hunters drove this rapacious beast from his den into the open.

Mr Brown said there was also a global perspective to America's rapacious model of consumption.

And he still seems bent on repaying election favours to a rapacious old guard.

They might also usefully improve transport by, say, building bridges over rivers prone to flooding, which would cut out rapacious middlemen.

People who prefer meat only are apt to be bad-tempered, aggressive, rapacious and greedy.

Culturally, the bourgeoisie has been regarded, from Moliere to Balzac, as mean, avaricious, tasteless, reactionary and rapacious.

In Tunisia, a rapacious first family indulged in widespread racketeering, alienating every social class.

A little gussying-up of bank balance sheets. Maybe, just maybe, some feeble protection against rapacious credit card lenders.

But legislation to protect consumers from rapacious bankers has had unintended consequences, too.

For many Chinese, daily life remains a grim struggle, and their government rapacious, arbitrary and corrupt (see article).

Sporting clubs which constitute the traditional sports institutions in the world today are rapacious social instruments.

Japan, instead, adopted a policy of rapacious requisitioning, driving many farmers to give up.

Locals often have bitter memories of rapacious Western colonialists and Arab slave traders.

To pay bribes to tax police and fire inspectors; to kowtow to rapacious mayors and governors.

Those who commit themselves and are not rapacious should be honoured and loved.

Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant): I think you are a rapacious little bitch.

Those tourists, too, had less fun than they let on: they grumbled about the food, their rapacious guides and the discomforts of travel.

THE story of oil has many villains: greedy oil-company executives, rapacious dictators, shady middlemen and the like.

They often end up 50% higher than recommended, and are then usually disregarded by rapacious fishermen.

But Mr Stone is more interested in skewering rapacious financiers than rash homeowners.

A decade of rapacious consolidation has made JPMorgan Chase the world's largest bank outside China.

If the Monkey Lounge feels laidback and decorous, M1nt is loud and brash, rapacious like its sharks.

Now these are being unwound, once-rapacious lenders are more circumspect, consumers less flush and car showrooms less frantic.

It led on 69 minutes through a sharp, rapacious break finished off by Edinson Cavani.

Jolly, rapacious devils who didn't even give you time to button your pants when it was over.

A pig has already become rapacious and savage!

The root cause of all these trends is the same: a rapacious human economy bringing the world swiftly to the brink of chaos.

In America we now have the twin enablers of criminal or rapacious behavior: no honor and no shame.

I have a recollection of large , unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes .

Reform might quickly be exploited by the very forces it is meant to constrain: rapacious local governments and developers