-
Greed (or avarice, Latin: avaritia) is an
insatiable desire for
material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or
social value...
- Aurangzeb's
ardour for the
Sharifs of
Mecca had
begun to wane;
their greed and
rapacity had
thoroughly disillusioned the
Emperor ...
Aurangzeb expressed his disgust...
- ways the most
effective of James's regents, but he made
enemies by his
rapacity. He fell from
favour when
Frenchman Esmé Stewart,
Sieur d'Aubigny, first...
-
called the
practice of
loaning money "detestable and shameful...
insatiable rapacity of
money lenders,
forbidden both by
divine and
human laws
throughout the...
- also pla**** the role of
Colonel Grushko, 'a
policeman who sees
greed and
rapacity in Russia's new mood', in Grushko, a British-made
crime drama set in Russia...
- its cathedral. His
sobriquet was
given due to his
notorious cruelty and
rapacity, but
there is no
proof that it was used
during his lifetime.
Known in charters...
- and
oppressive force useful only on
occasion as a
counterbalance to the
rapacity of kings,
although all too often, even more
rapacious itself. Voltaire...
-
strengths and strategies,
their novel economic models,
their inherent rapacity,
their ambition, and the
drastic consequences of
their rise that people...
-
disgusting elements of the
press who
reported that the "impudence and
rapacity of the
FitzJordans is unexampled". The
relationship between William and...
- Bill was
intended to sa****uard the
interests of the
farmers against the
rapacity of traders. The Bill was
adopted by most of the
States in India, Punjab...
