Brown continues his exploration of love and longing, the dark nights ( and mornings after ) of the soul, corporate rapacity and the homogenization of the world into one big town.
42.
He and Haman were the two richest men in the world, and both perished on account of their rapacity, and because their riches were not the gift of Heaven ( Num.
43.
De Bohun had special reason for opposing the Despensers, for he had lost some of his estates in the Welsh Marches to their rapacity and he felt they had besmirched his honour.
44.
Shortly afterwards, however, he was recalled by his countrymen, and sent on a mission to Paris to remonstrate against the rapacity and cruelty of the agents of the French republic.
45.
Trujillo's rapacity towards women knew no bounds, employing " hundreds of spies whose entire job was to scour the provinces for his next piece of ass " ( 217 ).
46.
There was also a stern lecture on public morality, with Mandela stating that there was a crisis of ethics in a country marked by a culture of rapacity and pervasive public and private corruption.
47.
However, he wrote : " 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 ."
48.
The rising capitalistic middle class resented the drain of their wealth to the church; in northern Europe, they supported local reformers against the corruption, rapacity and venality which they viewed as originating in Rome.
49.
:* The original text is " brutalen Willk�r und Raublust " . " Brutalen " means brutal . " Willk�r " means arbitrariness, capriciousness, despotism . " Raublust " means rapacity, aggressive greed.
50.
But the process of collecting a fresh royal army was slow, and Goring and his subordinate, Sir Richard Grenville, were alienating the King's most devoted adherents by their rapacity, cruelty and debauchery.
