The people, who felt the severity of his laws, at the same time acknowledged their justice, and found themselves protected from the rapacity of their superiors.
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But even his cruelty did not surpass his rapacity and extortion, in which he was fully aided and seconded by his mother, Philotis ( or Philota ).
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Urse was known for his acquisitiveness, and during William II's reign was considered second only to Ranulf Flambard, another royal official, in his rapacity.
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The Democratic platform pledged to replace the corruption of the Grant administration with honest, efficient government and to end " the rapacity of carpetbag tyrannies " in the South.
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Al-Utbi states when Sebuktigin invaded Afghanistan, that the " Afghans " were pagans given to rapine and rapacity, and that Sebuktigin defeated and converted them to Islam.
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Aptly named, multimedia increasingly seems to be a maw that will swallow and regurgitate the product of man's intellect, creativity and rapacity, past, present and future.
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Public Enemy raps see white profiteers behind gangster rappers and drug dealers, white rapacity behind the environmental crisis, white propaganda behind the flag, white doctors behind the AIDS epidemic.
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Instead, encouraged and subsidized by the government, Canadian fishermen equipped with high-tech trawlers were hitting the Grand Banks with as much rapacity as the foreign fleets had ever shown.
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Belgian rapacity is limned with acidic intent, and the nightmarish scenes of the army lethally out of control and unleashing bloodbath after bloodbath are conveyed with the dread that accompanies bad dreams.
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The one weapon which you have to use against this regime, which has demonstrated enormous greed and rapacity and corruption, is to starve it of the funds which come from oil,
