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  • Rapacious aliens might represent mankind's destructive exploitation of native peoples and natural resources, or zombies could symbolize the mindlessness of consumer culture as survivors turn on each other to illustrate the darkness of human nature when pushed to the brink.

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Vanishing On 7th Street -- When Dark Is Just Dark Jonathan Kim 2011

  • Rapacious hoarding earned some the title of land kings.

    Heavy Is the Crown for China's Land Kings Tom Orlik 2011

  • Rapacious aliens might represent mankind's destructive exploitation of native peoples and natural resources, or zombies could symbolize the mindlessness of consumer culture as survivors turn on each other to illustrate the darkness of human nature when pushed to the brink.

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Vanishing On 7th Street -- When Dark Is Just Dark Jonathan Kim 2011

  • Rapacious cashiers in dungarees bag skeins of possibility.

    To No Avail 2010

  • Rapacious investors made wild bets on Greek debt, the argument goes, which drove up borrowing costs and made the crisis seem even worse than it was.

    Worse Than Wall Street 2010

  • Rapacious, wasteful logging destroys their forest homes.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • In his insistence on controlling the Church in France, Louis emulated Philip le Bel, as well as becoming a precursor of Napoleon, the "Rapacious Eagle."

    Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • In his insistence on controlling the Church in France, Louis emulated Philip le Bel, as well as becoming a precursor of Napoleon, the "Rapacious Eagle."

    La Mystérieuse prophétie elena maria vidal 2009

  • If we believed that, the labeling would be reversed: it's all the other food that should be labeled as "Unfair Trade," "Rapacious Trade," or "Let's-Pay-a-Pittance Trade."

    Johann Hari: Lies, Damned Lies -- and the DoubleSpeak I Would Erase From the English Language 2009

  • Rapacious warlords like Rashid Dostum may represent the past, and moderate, modern men like the interim president, Hamid Karzai, the future.

    Don't Abandon Afghanistan 2007

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