«RAPACIOUS»的英语 引用
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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Rapacious Kings Sagacious Kids
Both the Red and the Blue King want to own America.
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English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
768 RACK. RAPACIOUS. to qi'iver, v. To shake, to quote, v. To cite. R. race, v.
Course. RACE, GENERATION, BREED. RACE, v. Family. GENERATION, in Latin
genera- tio from genero, and the Greek j-s-.v », to engender or beget, signifies
the ...
It appears that wealthy industrialist Arlis Taylor's plan to develop a geothermal energy plant in the Caribbean has come under attack from an environmental extremist group determined to block the project.
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English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order
To redeem; RAPACIOUS, RAVENOUS, VORA— CIOUS. RAPACIOUS, in' Latin
rapax, from rapio to seize, signifies seizing or grasping any thing with an eager
desire to have. RAVENOUS, from the Latin rabies fury, and rapio to seize,
signifies ...
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English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With ...
RAPACIOUS. RAPINE. 649 of the race of the Heraclidas, the race of the
Bourbons, the race of the Stuarts, and the like ; but the present generation, the
whole generation, a worthless generation, and the like : breed is said of those
animals ...
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature
A HISTORY OF RAPACIOUS BIRDS. 59 chief difference given is in the colour of
the feathers, which in the female of the bird of Nazareth are said to be extremely
beautiful ; and in the length, of their legs, which in the dodo are short ; in the other
...
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The Literary Werewolf: An Anthology
PART. TWO. The. Rapacious. Werewolf. The rapacious werewolves in this
section live to kill. Both are males De Maupassant's werewolf is an old male who
has eluded capture for many years, Saki's werewolf is a young male who seems
...
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Freedom: A Poem, Written in Time of Recess from the ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
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The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign ...
It there constitutes a general enlargement of the whole lower part of the
oesophagus ; this general enlargement of the oesophagus is very capacious in
the eagles and in most of the diurnal rapacious birds. Into this great sac, which is
placed in ...
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SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each ...
There were two kinds of virus: prudent phages, which are more productive when
alone, and rapacious phages, which displace prudent variants when they share a
colony of bacteria. Any rapacious phage mutant should oust its ancestor, but, ...
Martin Nowak, Roger Highfield,
2011
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Librarians storm ramparts of rapacious ebook publishers
They're gearing up for a literary brannigan aimed at getting publishers to dial back these price barriers between people and the books they love. "It is quite ... «SooToday.com, 六月 15»
Despite jealousy of local merchants and rapacious officials, Chinese …
In this photo taken Monday, June 8, 2015, Chinese national Wei Kun, center, and his sales executive Allen Tushabe, right, sell a pair of shoes made in China to ... «Fox News, 六月 15»
National Post View: The Senate's culture of rapacious entitlement
The most precious morsels of information embedded in auditor general Michael Ferguson's report into senators' expenses, released Tuesday, were not with ... «National Post, 六月 15»
Leaders' interviews: David Cameron faces down accusation that …
Asked whether he felt physically sick when he saw "rapacious capitalists" telling their staff on the minimum wage they're not going to be paid for some hours, ... «CITY A.M., 四月 15»
Tory business letter: Labour is right to attack the rapacious economic …
Will it work? Actually, it could. And so here is a test for our democracy. Will we be blackmailed and cajoled by a rapacious economic elite interested only in their ... «The Guardian, 四月 15»
The 'Rapacious' Business Model That Rules the Church of Scientology
When L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetcs enterprise collapsed, he told his wife that the only way to make money was to found a religion, according to the HBO ... «The American Prospect, 四月 15»
Stern warning for 'rapacious' lawyer
Predatory fees for taking over a virtually settled case incurred the wrath of a high court judge, says Carmel Rickard. An attorney who stepped into a ... «Independent Online, 十月 14»
Report: Airbnb Is Illegal, Rapacious, & Swallowing Lower Manhattan
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman released his report [PDF] on Airbnb today, and if you live in Manhattan, some portion of it is guaranteed to piss you off. «Gothamist, 十月 14»
VIDEO: Ravens rapacious defense shreds Buccaneers offensive line
Under Defensive Coordinator Dean Pees, the Ravens defense feasted on the miscues committed by the Buccaneers offensive line and pestered quarterback ... «Baltimore Beat Down, 十月 14»
Comedian David Mitchell accuses Amazon of 'rapacious near …
The comedian David Mitchell has attacked Amazon, accusing the online retailer of a “rapacious near-monopoly” over the books market and acting in a “cynical ... «The Independent, 九月 14»