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  • And I use the term predatorial because this guy was absolutely a predator, and based on what you guys were just saying.

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2008 2008

  • He could not see that his ambitions, by piling up assets and personnel in the U.S. and other financial capitals, only would leave the bank more vulnerable to pressure from foreign tax authorities, making his main asset, Swiss safety, less credible in a world in which governments are becoming more grabby, in some cases predatorial.

    What Financial Crisis? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

  • Is this a warning of monsters masquerading as men and women, of people who appear to be just like us but actually have secret aspects, hidden inhumanities, bestial, predatorial qualities?

    Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One" Hal Duncan 2008

  • Is this a warning of monsters masquerading as men and women, of people who appear to be just like us but actually have secret aspects, hidden inhumanities, bestial, predatorial qualities?

    Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Why allow a political criminal gang of bullies to bring it down, just because Ottawa has the same problem as The USA when it comes to the jewish lobby, like AIPAC in the USA, why do we continue to alloy these bullies to rule with the clout their newsmedia, predatorial, selfserving legal political structure has become ?

    Quebec, The “Show Me The Money” Province « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • The head cake is the stuff of nightmares. thos big buggy eyes, the predatorial sneer, the beard on half his face does he shave one side or did we run out of brown icing? the uneven brows. the egg nose. the chrome dome. *shudder* and it's served on a bed of parsley!

    Happy Festivus! 2009

  • The most aggrieved saw Clinton as someone who refused to resign and lacked enough shame and honor about his using his power in various offices for predatorial gain.

    Handy Rundown Of Conservative Reactions to Foley Scandal 2009

  • And it depends upon several specific assumptions about the circumstances and mechanisms through which local groups of people can establish self-enforcing forms of cooperation that overcome free-riders and predatorial behavior.

    Hobbes an institutionalist? Daniel Little 2009

  • The hypocrisy thing is rationalized by this method: if you resign in shame when caught falling prey to your hidden predatorial demons and peccadilloes, you are no longer a hypocrite.

    Handy Rundown Of Conservative Reactions to Foley Scandal 2009

  • Child pornography laws were implemented as a means of protecting underage children from predatorial sexual attacks -- NOT to lamb baste children and young people who are willingly exposing themselves.

    Danielle Cavallucci: Sexting the Way to Fairer Regard for the Feminine Form 2009

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