Sentence examples for rapacious from inspiring English sources

With more than one in seven high street stores already lying empty, property experts do not expect the rapacious growth of food chains to fill that void.

No Parsi would want the mystic eye of the vulture to be replaced by the rapacious one of the land shark.

Just as Labour overcame its distaste for those it would once have seen as rapacious capitalists and wicked press barons, so Tory toffs overcame theirs for people they used to treat as social inferiors.

Our shameless, rapacious economic elite keep the Conservatives afloat not out of generosity, but because they expect a return.

The American higher education system is broken: between predatory student lenders, rapacious for-profit colleges, skyrocketing tuition rates and the number of people taking on a lifetime's worth of debt before they can legally drink, the current system is not sustainable.

He delegates some of this authority, either to millionaires who fancy having a school to play with for a change, or to one of the increasingly wealthy and rapacious private sector companies who have grown fat on the government's need to find someone who is not in the public sector to run our schools.

"Good sir, please help me save my family fortune from rapacious government officials... ...... Internet fraud is far from unique to Nigeria but the west African nation excels at these particular swindles, which predate the internet but have been transformed by it.

He says his government heralds the end of 500 years of oppression of Bolivians of indigenous descent by whites and (mixed-race) mestizos, and of Bolivia itself by rapacious foreign powers.

Two decades of stalled reforms and rapacious leadership have left the average Ukrainian about 20% poorer than she was when the Soviet Union collapsed.

FOR as long as multinational companies have existed and some historians trace them back to banking under the Knights Templar in 1135 they have been derided by their critics as rapacious rich-world beasts.

This "eat them to beat them" approach already helps keep down the population of lion fish, a rapacious stripy sea-beast which devours protected fish stocks off America's west coast.Wild meat is not always tasty.