The word "predations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an animal, group, or person that exploits other animals or people, such as through hunting them for food, taking resources away from them, or stealing from them. For example, "The pack of animals survived the winter by preying on smaller creatures in the area, using their predations to satisfy their hunger."
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?
By contrast, the rebels insist on maximalist aims while consistently retreating to a north-eastern rump where they are vulnerable to the colonel's predations.
Such reports have gained credence partly because rumours of the predations of Jimmy Savile, a television personality who died in 2011, all turned out to be true (and indeed proved to have been understated).Yet the inquiry has been bedevilled by the sensitivity of the allegations.
Not only has the conflict with the LRA displaced almost as many people as the strife in Darfur, Sudan's embattled western region, but Mr Kony, whose predations have hitherto been confined mainly to his native northern Uganda, is increasingly threatening the peaceful rebuilding of neighbouring south Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In "The Giant, O'Brien" (reviewed here last autumn) the sickness of the imagination is figured in the death of an Irish bard, brought down by the predations of vulgar, scientific materialism.
The main report, endorsed by the Democrats, points to a broad swathe of failures but pins much of the blame on the financial industry, be it greed and sloppy risk management at banks, the predations of mortgage brokers, the spinelessness of ratings agencies or the explosive growth of securitisation and credit-default swaps.
Nowadays, although a few container ships still face their predations, many of the buccaneers have moved ashore, smuggling stolen Mercedes-Benz cars and such-like into China.
AT MIDNIGHT the Palestinian vigil against the predations of nearby Jewish settlers begins.
Shia militias, proclaiming their determination to defend Baghdad from the brutal predations of ISIS, are reported to have carried out several massacres themselves.The almost exclusively Shia south, where Iraq's most productive oilfields lie, is broadly calm.
Once again, gullible Japanese investors laid themselves open to the predations of their stockbrokers.Exchangeable bonds are designed to appeal to savers who face paltry interest rates on bank deposits and government bonds.
They present themselves as a bulwark against the predations of the unfettered market and the neoliberal economics that Mr Brown now labels, somewhat inconsistently, a "bankrupt ideology".On the other side stand the Conservatives.
