Chinese consider this seizure a " colonial rapacity " comparable to the taking of the Elgin Marbles or the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
22.
Before 1792, Malabar suffered from rapacity of Mysore rule and British were only a merchant power who had not yet harmed people of Malabar.
23.
Turkish aggression also made it much more difficult for France to continue its traditional role as the Sultan's protector against Russian rapacity ".
24.
The town's three R's in that time were " rum, rascality, and rapacity, " according to one preacher.
25.
Prices were often determined as much by the rapacity of the seller and ignorance of the buyer _ or vice-versa _ as fair estimation of value.
26.
In less than a decade, the Grand Banks were wiped out by the rapacity of fishermen and the refusal of fisheries officials to curtail over-fishing.
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In these instances, society is characterized by tensions, palpable or hidden, between the suppressed rights of the people and the power rapacity of one individual.
28.
Alarmed by this disaster and by the fury of the province which he had goaded into war by his rapacity, the procurator Catus crossed over into Gaul.
29.
Despite this, his children importuned for greater opportunities, disgusting elements of the press who reported that the " impudence and rapacity of the FitzJordans is unexampled ".
30.
Morton was elected to Mar's office and proved in many ways the most effective of James's regents, but he made enemies by his rapacity.
