(1) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.
(2) Germany has many people in rented accommodation, but they also have much stronger tenancy laws and a much longer-term and less rapacious investment model.
(3) Eighteen years after first dipping its toe in the world of banking, Tesco is launching its first current account on Tuesday, and says it is targeting people fed up with "smoke and mirrors" and "rapacious" bank charges.
(4) Miliband offered little new on policy apart from a commitment to improve corporate governance so businesses are allowed to invest for the long term, and allow established shareholders to protect companies from rapacious takeovers.
(5) He was the most rapacious empire-builder of the regime, with huge powers over the economy.
(6) Capital rich but income poor older people sit in the cold rather than keep themselves warm because they are fearful of releasing equity in a rapacious market or desperately want to pass something on to their families.
(7) In the struggle against colonialism and racism, that's what's emerged: that black men are strong, and sexually rapacious but only towards women; homosexuals and white men are weak and feminine.
(8) Life for millions of people under the most rapacious and reactionary government in 150 years has diminished.
(9) Nor is the state rapacious: if you qualify, two-bedroom apartments in newish public blocks rent for around £150 a month, there are 40 sheltered housing units for the elderly that rent for less than £30 a month, and if you’re old and poor enough, someone will come and shovel your snow away for nothing.
(10) This is the standard model of rapacious capitalism, fueled and developed in the tech sector.
(11) Yet there are still too many obstacles to the free flow of scientific information, from rapacious publishers to restrictive intellectual property laws and unsympathetic research institutions.
(12) But while the brutal and vindictive treatment of Khodorkovsy has rightly sparked indignation abroad it has failed to ignite the same passions at home, where he is seen as a rapacious oligarch and sympathy is in short supply.
(13) But there is more to Beverly Hills than rapacious officials and suffering citizens.
(14) For Abbott, politics is a vocation, not a springboard for eternal political leadership or financial rapaciousness.
(15) This time around, rising house prices are producing the opposite: a feel-bad factor among young adults permanently excluded from buying and furious about rapacious rents, combined with a growing sense of despair among the middle-aged no longer able to move up the fabled property ladder because each rung is financially just too far away from the one before.
(16) Particular ire has been directed at Flowers because he worked for the Co-op, especially by those who still delude themselves that it lives up to its name as an ethical bank, despite recent events that have seen it fall into the hands of hedge funds and other such rapacious institutions.
(17) Norway exports its gathered knowledge about oil production to all parts of the world, including advising foreign governments how to secure the best deals from the hard-headed executives of rapacious oil companies.
(18) England had become a nation of penalty-missers, contract-outers, public-school twits and twats, bigots and Bullingdon club bullies, snarling bulldogs and rapacious bankers.A country in which even Labour leaders preached deregulation, prized unfettered wealth and puckered up to the world’s media magnates.
(19) If social rents are cheaper than market rents, maybe, just maybe, it’s not because social rent is subsidised – a lie debunked over and over again – but because private markets are rapacious and volatile, and will happily spew out the poor after making as much profit as possible.
(20) It treats them not as hopeless victims to be pitied with charity, nor as sources of potential value for a rapacious financial sector, but rather as human beings with an innate right to the wealth that we draw from our planet’s common resources.
Raven
Definition:
(n.) A large black passerine bird (Corvus corax), similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America, and is noted for its sagacity.
(a.) Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness.
(n.) Rapine; rapacity.
(n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
(v. t.) To obtain or seize by violence.
(v. t.) To devour with great eagerness.
(v. i.) To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent winners such as the Ravens, Giants, Packers and Steelers typically stayed away from free agents, and fans are catching on.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Baltimore Ravens NFL player Eugene Monroe.
(3) Suddenly the game seemed to be slipping away from the Ravens, matters going from bad to worse as Ray Rice fumbled at the Baltimore 24.
(4) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
(5) Sea raven AFP cDNA clones were isolated from a liver cDNA library using a synthetic oligonucleotide, and the identity of one of the clones, C2-1, was confirmed by hybridization selection and cell-free translation.
(6) We just don’t believe the argument or the rationale is strong enough to transcend what has been around for thousands of years.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jarica Jordan (right), Raven Knight (center) and a friend in downtown Fargo during the gay pride parade.
(7) Five feet of water filled his kitchen and downstairs in the building that also houses his architectural practice, Red Raven Design.
(8) The findings suggest that loss of intellectual capacity on the Raven's Matrices can be attributed to age.
(9) In the email Raven says she and her supporters have raised the £6,000 needed to launch phase one of the Spare Rib website in May but that an additional £20,000 is required to launch a bimonthly print magazine this autumn.
(10) Ravens 7 - 49ers 0, 10:36 1st quarter A big 3rd & 4 sees Flacco in the shotgon, then hitting Boldin to opening up the scoring in Super Bowl XLVII!
(11) This is the equivalent of the apes leaving the Tower of London, or the ravens quitting Gibraltar, or the other way round.
(12) Dr. Clara Raven, Deputy Medical Examiner of Wayne County testified before the committee because of her experience in dealing with many tragic deaths due to criminal abortions and child abuse and neglect due to unwanted pregnancy.
(13) Then Rice with a short run, an incomplete pass to Boldin and a little pass to Rice as the Ravens can't pick up a second first down on this drive and kick it away into the end zone.
(14) 3.31am GMT Ravens 34 - 49ers 29, 2:00 of 4th Quarter Warning, this Super Bowl has two minutes left!
(15) As mentioned, the Ravens were able to defeat the Broncos last year in overtime with a 47 yard field goal by Tucker.
(16) Alicia Keys handles the song, which was written near the shores of the Chesapeake Bay around the Baltimore Harbor, quite close to where the Ravens play their home games - coincidence?
(17) Speed of reaction (as defined by the reciprocal of reaction time (RT), movement time (MT) and total response time (TRT] and accuracy of response (as represented by the sum of errors in selecting the correct response key) were investigated comparatively as a function of side of lesion and of performance on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (PM47).
(18) Solution acceptance, as recorded for the different ravens on each test, was the percentage of preference shown for a test solution over water (comparison solution).
(19) At which point restraint becomes as powerful as the Seeds' ravenous beer-hall bluster; a ten-minute Stagger Lee is a masterclass in tension and drama, Cave balancing precariously on the crowd barrier with audience members holding him up by the boot-heel as he leans out to sing his tale of a deviant killer directly into the eyes of a hypnotised girl in white hoisted on someone's shoulders.
(20) @lengeldavid or by email at david.lengel.freelance@guardiannews.com Paolo's coverage of the exhausted Ravens and Broncos is over here.