(n.) The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves.
(n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott's film, which starred Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba, centred on the human crew of a spaceship sent to investigate a distant planet where the answers to mankind's origins may lie hidden.
(2) Gandolfini, who died of a heart attack last June at the age of 51, features alongside Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in the Brooklyn-set film, which is directed by Oscar-nominated Belgian film-maker Michael R Roskam.
(3) A combination of uncontrolled breeding and rapacity is propelling us down the slippery slope 1st envisioned by Malthus, dragging the rest of the planet along.
(4) It's totally appropriate for government to regulate the terms of sale of a harmful product, and to safeguard public health from corporate rapacity – in the same way we've done with tobacco.
(5) This is why Britain’s historical amnesia about the rapacity of its rule in India is so deplorable.
(6) When his bar is hit by a gang of robbers, he sees his life and those of his cousin Marv (Gandolfini) and partner Nadia (Rapace) thrown into chaos.
(7) The Wrap suggests the sequel will continue where the first movie left off, with Rapace's God-fearing archeologist accompanying Fassbender's David on a journey to find the home of the Engineers, a mysterious alien race with a genetic link to homo sapiens.
(8) This is the era of the dotcom boom and, in the literary world, the rapid expansion of the list of Andrew Wylie , the agent known as "the Jackal" for his rapacity; a time of dizzying auctions, huge advances for authors, and newly short lunches.
(9) However, more recently, his ability to capture the demolition of the soul of decent people, as the social contract between citizen and government is ripped apart by the rapacity of neoliberalism, has hit a wider target.
(10) The film, which stars Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce and Idris Elba, opens in the UK on 1 June.
(11) The Sopranos star, who died of a heart attack on 19 June in Italy, appears as a bar owner, opposite Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace, in the film.
(12) Many modern apologists for British colonial rule in India no longer contest the basic facts of imperial exploitation and plunder, rapacity and loot, which are too deeply documented to be challengeable.
(13) The Barcelona attacker has now struck 43 times for his country, but individual rapacity cannot necessarily keep pace with a Germany line-up that has won its knockout phase fixtures 4-1, against England, and 4-0, against Argentina.
(14) The broadcaster cut to an ad break following a graphic scene of a "disturbing rape" of the film's main character Lisbeth Salander, played by actress Noomi Rapace, which included a close-up of her screaming.
(15) James Gandolfini’s penultimate film, Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said , screened to great warmth at the festival last year; this year, there’s a premiere for his final film, The Drop , co-starring Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace and shot just before his death in June 2013 .
(16) Doubly ironic, then, that we were the real Martians, and that many people – including quite a few scientists – believe that we're accomplishing that same scenario with equal rapacity.
(17) Tomorrow he's flying out to start work on Dead Man Down with Noomi Rapace, for director Niels Arden Oplev, who shot the Swedish-language version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo .
(18) The name Black Friday perfectly captures the heedless, bushfire rapacity of the event.
Seize
Definition:
(v. t.) To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.
(v. t.) To take possession of by force.
(v. t.) To invade suddenly; to take sudden hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient.
(v. t.) To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods.
(v. t.) To fasten; to fix.
(v. t.) To grap with the mind; to comprehend fully and distinctly; as, to seize an idea.
(v. t.) To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Batson believes there is a “mood” that needs to be seized upon.
(2) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(5) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(6) Lieberman said: "[Amazon's] decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.
(7) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
(8) The coroner also raised concerns that although the aim of the operation in which Duggan was killed was to take guns off the streets, little attempt was made to seize weapons believed to be held by Hutchinson-Foster.
(9) Employers seize the workers’ passports and the only body that can issue a permit for a worker to leave Qatar is the employer himself.
(10) Backlogs and staff shortages have long been seized upon by veterans groups lobbying for more resources, but it is the apparent cover-up of the scale of the problem that has transformed these latest complaints into a growing political problem for the White House.
(11) Social media has seized on the story, turning the Eastern Washington University’s professor of African studies into a figure vilified and mocked for cultural appropriation in the midst of fraught debates over transgender identity and police shootings of black people.
(12) A Yazidi lawmaker, a Kurdish security official and an Iraqi official from the nearby city of Sinjar gave similar accounts, saying Isis fighters had massacred scores of Yazidi men on Friday afternoon after seizing Kocho.
(13) "This is a formidable challenge, requiring step changes in the rate at which we improve our energy efficiency and in low-carbon innovation.The Carbon Trust's proposals recognise the need for us to be smarter in focusing our investments, including to help businesses seize the economic opportunities of the transition."
(14) The US and Iran have had no diplomatic relations since 1979, when a group of student protesters seized the US embassy in Tehran and took US officials hostage.
(15) The militants have also seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control.
(16) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(17) The Ukrainian president, Oleksandr Turchynov, had given pro-Russian locals in eastern Ukraine until Monday morning to give up their arms and the buildings they had seized, but instead a pro-Russian mob took over yet another government building in Horlivka that day.
(18) The terrorists know that if Iraq and Afghanistan survive their assault, come through their travails, seize the opportunity the future offers, then those countries will stand not just as nations liberated from oppression, but as a lesson to humankind everywhere and a profound antidote to the poison of religious extremism.
(19) In 2014, they seized on Osborne’s declaration of a “northern powerhouse” to promote One North, a plan for a £15bn network, dubbed HS3, between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
(20) The president’s supporters seized on the incident to plant seeds of confusion and false equivalency: if that Russia story was wrong, perhaps all of them are wrong?