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Examples of rapacity


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It is at this point that claims are made on the cultural item which had been lost due to one's own thoughtlessness and the other's rapacity.
Many railways then had to take devious and circuitous routes and incur additional expense and difficulties because of the rapacity of the landlords.
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The rapacity of these moneylenders has not been curbed.
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I never used them for that purpose or represented that any landlord acted with rapacity or made exorbitant or extravagant demands.
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I never used them for that purpose, or represented that any landlord acted with rapacity or made exorbitant or extravagant demands.
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It is this rapacity, this lively defect in all of us, of which the "wide boys", as they are called, take advantage.
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I do not think that is all entirely owing to the rapacity of landowners.
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In no instance was there rapacity or exorbitancy of demand against anybody.
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For it is here that the conflicts, the drama and the rapacity over water in future years will take place.
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She spoke of the rapacity of the typical landlord.
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The inefficiency and rapacity of the big firms are brought out in report after report.
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In those circumstances some extraordinary method was necessary of checking the ordinary rapacity of the ordinary human being.
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I agree that it is difficult for anyone to keep up to date with the rapacity of certain elements in our economy.
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My stinginess, what is left over after my rapacity in the present year, amounts to £20,000,000 sterling.
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It was because of the rapacity and greed of the landlords.
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There are more reasons than the alleged rapacity of the pharmaceutical industry.
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We have policed rapacity; we have given the moneylender the shelter of the law.
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The rapacity of the capital owner was kept in check by competition both nationally and internationally.
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It is a valuable curb on the rapacity of unscrupulous landlords who are, fortunately, few in number.
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It is incorrect to say that the rapacity of landlords is widespread and universal.
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The 19th century is often described as a century of rapacity.
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There is no doubt whatever about the rapacity of these gentlemen.
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