rapaciousness in a sentence
Examples
- They're disappearing because of human greed and rapaciousness, of course, just as the environmentalists have been telling us for decades.
- III . ( 1233 ), which represents him as being tortured by a demon and expresses the contemporary Christian view of his rapaciousness.
- Domestically, the growing rapaciousness of Suharto's family created discontent amongst the military who lost access to power and lucrative rent-seeking opportunities.
- Without the ferocity and rapaciousness necessary to counter Bush's negative strategy led by the late Lee Atwater, Dukakis lost by 40 states to ten.
- Money and the availability here of Western products have introduced a rapaciousness and selfishness that, people tell me, was never so blatant when life was slower and people poorer.
- William Wakefield was already strongly critical of both the treaty and Williams and repeatedly attacked the missionary in the company's newspaper for his " hypocrisy and unblushing rapaciousness ".
- When he had gained his object, about 279 BC, he began his tyrannical reign, which in cruelty, rapaciousness and debauchery has seldom been equalled in any country.
- And of course there is Disney; the image of Mickey Mouse, not Kate Moss, looks out over Broadway now, with, it has been suggested, equal rapaciousness.
- While seeds of discontent had been sown before Sam Walton's death ( in 1992, from bone cancer ), his folksy image provided a shield against public charges of rapaciousness.
- Decades of war, brutality and the rapaciousness of corrupt leaders have left the people of Cambodia so poor that King Norodom Sihanouk said last year that he feared a new peasant revolution.