Sentence examples for rapacious in from inspiring English sources

BP's halting and incompetent response demonstrates the nature of corporations -- amoral and rapacious in pursuit of profit.

Rapacious in his appetites, bold and open-minded, Edward lived in lifelong rebellion against his Victorian upbringing.

During the Victorian period, the exploitation of resources was especially brutal; King Leopold II, of Belgium, was so rapacious in his pursuit of rubber that ten million people in the Congo Free State died as a result.

Khodorkovsky was rapacious in assembling his oil empire, but when he completed that task by the end of the 1990's he switched gears, focusing his energy and cleverness on running it in an efficient manner.

Even regulators, who have become critics of the way that banks construct their remuneration, tell me Barclays has not been as rapacious in its pay practices as it is widely portrayed.

It must not seem too rapacious in its organ hunt, in case potential donors see their own rights as under threat, and donations fall even further.

Cheated out of their inheritance and forced from the family home by a rapacious sister-in-law, they pull through and form happy alliances while novelist Austen entertains us with her sharply-drawn character studies.

Rules and regulations that rein in rapacious actors in the market?

So it is essential to have an idea about the quality of the existing water resource, which will aid in the rapacious usage in future.

Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, has become something of an organized-labor star by employing the old-school approach of unifying workers in distrust of rapacious managers in new ways.

By standing up to the most rapacious forces in the world today, and telling people in many countries what the powerful say and do behind their backs, he's made enemies of a kind journalists should wear as a badge of honour, but rarely do.