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Greed (or avarice) is an
insatiable desire for
material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or
social value, such as status...
- was the
procurator of
Roman Britain in AD 60 or 61.
Tacitus blames his "
rapacity" in part for
provoking the
rebellion of Boudica. C****ius Dio says he confiscated...
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Grant administration with honest,
efficient government and to end "the
rapacity of ****bag tyrannies" in the South. It also
called for
treaty protection...
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disgusting elements of the
press who
reported that the "impudence and
rapacity of the
FitzJordans is unexampled". The
relationship between William and...
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called the
practice of
loaning money "detestable and shameful...
insatiable rapacity of
money lenders,
forbidden both by
divine and
human laws
throughout the...
- 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...
- Independence. The do****ent
cited several grievances,
including "Spanish
rapacity" and "odious tyranny" and
promised religious freedom,
freedom of the press...
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strengths and strategies,
their novel economic models,
their inherent rapacity,
their ambition, and the
drastic consequences of
their rise that people...
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absolute where feebleness or
ignorance do not
expose the
subject to the
rapacity of mandarins, relatives, or speculators. Even
savages and
foreigners are...
- more
secure town of Zahlé on
account of the Harfushes'
oppression and
rapacity, but more
critical studies have
questioned this interpretation, pointing...
