Sentence examples for predatory designs from inspiring English sources

Monet resisted as long as he could, fearing both imitation and predatory designs on his stepdaughters.

Saddam Hussein, in an effort to ennoble his predatory designs, claimed that he wouldn't consider ending his August 1990 invasion of Kuwait without "the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israel from the occupied Arab territories in Palestine".

An Englishwoman, Isabella (the newcomer Inge Rademeyer), is traveling to her uncle's ranch, when she is taken hostage by an unnamed outlaw, the Man (Cohen Holloway), whose predatory designs on her are thwarted by his inability to complete the sexual act.

Both are forms of narcissism for which the idea of reality putting up some resistance to your predatory designs on it, whether in the form of the Iraqi opposition or a visit from the local district attorney, is an intolerable affront.

He also has a tetchy, difficult relationship with his sister (Satomi Kobayashi), a stay-at-home mum devoted to her young daughter's interest in figure skating, and suspicious of her wastrel brother and his predatory designs on their indulgent mother – a lovely performance from Kirin Kiki.

We will devote substantial attention to recent developments in the antitrust treatment of product innovation and design decisions such as predatory design, bundling, software integration, and technological tying, including a comparison of the Microsoft investigations and decisions in the U.S., Europe and Korea regarding software tying and interoperability.

The American Booksellers Association, for instance, recently sent a letter to the Department of Justice urging that it investigate the price war as an example of "illegal predatory pricing" designed to "win control of the market for hardcover bestsellers," with disastrous consequences for bookstores around the country.

China, after all, maintains predatory policies designed to take advantage of America's open economy.

A Scotland Yard inspector (avuncular Garry Marsh) and his bumbling assistant (Jon Pertwee) investigate the death of a voyeur in the theatre's front row, killed (if memory serves aright) by an elderly stagehand bent on protecting one of the showgirls from this predatory punter's designs.

But on Tuesday, the owner of the building that offended Mr. Ross, the rival developer Joseph Moinian, fought back, filing a 33-page lawsuit in State Supreme Court in Manhattan accusing his lender and Mr. Ross of a "long-lived predatory lending scheme" designed to steal the building, known as 3 Columbus Circle, for a fraction of what it was worth.

"It is no surprise when some of the people losing almost $7 billion a year on the pokies in NSW take it out on the predatory machines which are designed to addict and deceive," Tim Costello, director of Alliance for Gambling Reform, told AAP in a statement on Sunday.