Sentence examples for predatory to from inspiring English sources

Both Alex and Leslie have become furry, bestial and predatory, to the point where Adam and Alice's pets tend to disappear.

"I think it's irresponsible and predatory to deprive the house to future owners, ones who know the value of a 17,000-square-foot masterwork by a great California architect," Ms. Luce said.

"I think the blocking factors are manifold and cyclical … There's a lack of role models for upcoming female designers, there's a work environment that can fluctuate between actively hostile and predatory, to absent-mindedly patronising and presumptive.

"After the kiss, a lot of gay people said to me 'Is that it?' Some people thought it was predatory to have Todd try to kiss a straight boy but to me that was all part of his confusion".

Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, will cite the treatment of the parents of Milly Dowler and the remarks of a Crown Prosecution Service barrister, who referred to a 13-year-old sexual abuse victim as predatory, to highlight the need for a new victims' law.

They got me into this hot crowded room to talk about what has been one of the most egregious — predatory to use your words — systems they'd ever witnessed.

Market fundamentalism led to public systems withdrawing from providing affordable housing, on the assumption that the poor can be left to predatory banks to meet their housing needs.

Congress also rejected proposals to curb "predatory loans" to home buyers at unfavourable terms to the borrowers.

"Things from predatory lending to spam to the quality of the air are implicated".

Both Intesa and Sanpaolo managed to outmanoeuvre big, predatory shareholders to join forces.

The introduction of predatory mammals to oceanic islands has led to the extinction of many endemic birds.