Rapacious in a sentence

Nor is this an instance, by the way, of rapacious capitalists taking advantage of those in a bad situation, offering them a slight improvement but still leaving them in dire straits.

The announcement plays to the traditional socialist emotion that rapacious, profit-eating, mongrel business types exploit and harm workers and the populace.

The recent death of that old war-monger (war criminal?) Kissinger reminded us of the old revolutionary days, when Burnham and Jagan cozied up to leftist movements across the world – against the “rapacious, running dogs capitalists”!

Because poke beneath the meek veneer of today’s trick-or-treaters, and a rapacious Halloween spirit still burns.

Cybertron is a starkly divided society and the Decepticons form out of the forgotten dregs to overthrow the rapacious elites.

The supporting cast includes wives and adult children, most notably Declan’s daughter Taggie, with novelist and rare good sort Lizzie Vereker (Katherine Parkinson) as the unofficial observer clocking her rapacious neighbours.

They are not just rapacious liars.

In which case, the moment she rises from this mournful moment, she is confronted by two options: One, do a self-assessment of the rapacious sex maniacs who had, over the decades, reduced her to a commodity with which they excited themselves.

With Britons throwing away an estimated £140 million worth of clothing each year, there’s no denying that our rapacious shopping habits are harming the planet.

For there is the newest development involving one of the oldest poster boys, the arrogant Rusal, this visionary, rapacious corporate beast that is an untamed Russian Bear prowling in Guyana’s rich pantries.

Our heritage has withstood rapacious development in no small a measure due to the activism of those who have made her their home.

The legitimacy of every corrupt regime ruled by self-serving elites hangs on this single thread: once prosperity fades, the legitimacy of the regime evaporates, as the citizenry have no reason to tolerate their rapacious, predatory overlords.

With such a callous, rapacious and burdensome elite in and out of office, why do we continue to talk about reforms to reduce/eliminate violence in our elections?

Your health, your families health, is held hostage every day to the rapacious greed of the pharmaceutical industry, perhaps the scummiest corporate sector in the American economy, and it is a very competitive competition.

As revealed in the Alphabet-Uber trial, former Uber executive Anthony Levandowski and former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had a rapacious attitude about autonomous vehicle development.

By the time Obama was re-elected, Silicon Valley and Wall Street had become the communist parody of rapacious American capitalism, unconcerned with what they break or who they hurt.

It is rather, an evil plan with some collaborators, desperate to hijack the government of Ogun state and add it to the harem of states under their rapacious gang of exploiters.

Never before, have we had a great opportunity like we have now to take our state back from the rapacious few, who have held the state by the jugular and prevented it from meeting the hopes and aspirations of its people.

Under Leopold’s rapacious rule, as many as 10 million people were killed, according to an estimate by historian Adam Hochschild.

Up to 10 million people died under the rapacious rule of Leopold II.