Sentence examples for rapacious greed from inspiring English sources
The Plain-Dealer, presented in 1676, satirizes rapacious greed.
It survived largely intact until 1985, when new owners sold off its 53 original lighting fixtures with the rapacious greed of corporate asset strippers.
The misdoings this past half-century of Distillers and Grünenthal were at least motivated only by rapacious greed, tawdry legalistic weaselling, noxious boardroom odours, that big-boy grownup stuff.
She sings of the world we're living in – one of warfare, sinister technology and rapacious greed that could spin us into oblivion – in order to "support people and determine what's real".
If you go to the cinema this weekend and see a race-against-time tale about saving a lush natural paradise from the rapacious greed of an oil-drilling company, you could be forgiven for thinking you've stumbled into an advance showing of the Avatar sequel.
To the Editor: Re "More Than Just an Oil Spill," by Bob Herbert (column, May 22): Blaming "the scandalous, rapacious greed of the oil industry" for this catastrophe doesn't identify the real villains: ourselves, with our outsize energy demands for our busy, busy lives.
The whole saga stinks to high heaven of rapacious corporate greed, putting profits before people and the environment.
It would be wonderful if they could marshal that inspiration to find answers to some of the devastating challenges humanity currently faces: climate change and its attendant crises, dwindling energy supplies, genocide, brutality against women, terrorism, rapacious corporate greed.
With oil prices sliding steeply from their undreamed of heights at $147 a barrel to under $70/bbl, levels that less than two years ago were considered rapacious, OPEC in its inimical greed called an emergency meeting to staunch the bleeding.
The stories that have emerged – some of celebrity greed, some of a rapacious capitalism – are all the more shocking as the threadbare state of the UK's public realm after seven years of austerity is now unmistakable.
But the best of both worlds can easily turn into the worst.The perils of imperialisationIn the end, it was not rapacious politicians who killed the Company, but the greed and power of its managers and shareholders.
