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In it, the British historian detailed Holland's "tulipmania," France's "Mississippi madness" and the predations of England's "South Sea Company".

The movie was built around insider trading and the predations of the hostile takeover movement — two things central to our image of Wall Street in the '80s.

Ms. Churchill has always been a playwright of deep humanist concerns, having written notable plays critiquing colonialism ("Cloud Nine"), the Ceausescu regime in Romania ("Mad Forest") and the predations of the financial business ("Serious Money").

Less than a decade later, in New York, Occupy Wall Street arose to attack the misdeeds of the finance industry, the stranglehold of corporate power, and the predations of inequality.

For Manne, such violent episodes are merely an extreme manifestation of everyday misogyny, and she extends her analysis to catcalling, attitudes toward abortion, and the predations of Donald Trump.

Habitat destruction and the predations of introduced species were problems faced by all New Zealand birds, but in addition the huia faced massive pressure from hunting.

"The piece takes a dark satirical look at an accelerationist worldview in which marketisation is inevitable and desirable, the predations of computational capital are as inescapable as entropy and thermodynamics and these processes sit outside time," explains Walker to Creators.

Once there, she must contend with the rigors of training, and later the predations of a partner on patrol (Clinton Lowe) and taunts from white and black perpetrators, not to mention Sheldon, who feels threatened by her ambition.

The use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime should be viewed as crossing a "red-line" and therefore demands a robust U.S. response to end the humanitarian crisis and halt the predations of a regime that has forfeited its legitimacy.

At what point do we stop rearranging the country's social fabric for the sake of a globalised elite who want to use London to educate their children and escape the predations of their own venal governments?

Unregulated, untried, untested, badly understood and prone to the predations of the slick and fraudulent, the markets for new financial instruments bubble wonderfully and then crash horrifically.