Examples of using Rapacious in English and their translations into Slovak
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Man is a rapacious animal.
Can business be anything other than rapacious?
The owners of the Pequod are rapacious and stingy religious hypocrites.
But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing,but inside are rapacious wolves.
The persistent decline in product durability and the growth-culture of a rapacious consumer society can be directly traced to the debt-based financial system.
Ages ago, there were conscientious shepherdswhose sheep were well tended and carefully protected against attack by their rapacious enemies.
Hitler saw himself as the defender of Western Christian Civilization against a rapacious foe which threatened to sweep over and obliterate Europe.
In Britain, the fastest-growing modern protest movement, UK Uncut,is about to take direct action against tax avoiders and rapacious banks.
It protects the taxpayer from rapacious governments.
The brutal and rapacious character of the Assyrians made them no friends and their vassal states were always hopefully looking for any means of escape from Assyrian power.
Your family is too rapacious, go.".
Putin sits atop a regime that represents a rapacious clique of oligarchs who enriched themselves through theft of state property and the extraction and sale of the resources of the former Soviet Union.
Nobody knows exactly where the name of this village came from,probably because there were many rapacious birds in this region in the past, especially eagles(Orlov).
As a vulnerable emirate surrounded by rapacious states like Iraq and Iran and filled with disenfranchised expatriates, it has sought safety in soft power, from tourism to international arbitration.
Well nakládej of his time and resources in feeding the chicks,fending off the attacks of rapacious thieves and collecting gems in a dozen fascinating levels.
December 2008- Citing US war, human rights abuses, rapacious state capitalism and hypocrisy, Bratislava resident Michael Gogulski announced today that he has renounced his United States citizenship and become a stateless person as a means of“political divorce”.
In Britain, the fastest-growing modern protest movement, UK Uncut,is taking direct action against tax avoiders and rapacious high-street banks.
But until recently this was an energy Holy Grail run by the usual tiny,arrogant, rapacious elite, and where the masses had no possibility of decent education, decent housing or a decent salary.
Mercy extends also to the world around us, to our common home,which we are called to protect and preserve from unbridled and rapacious consumption.
From among the opinions and historical events,the main conflict appears to be the conflict between the rapacious capitalist system and more socially approached alternatives, which is still a part of the Czech political system.
Military and naval armaments have grown fantastically and the predatory war of 1914-17 for the domination of the world by Britain or Germany, for the division of the spoils,has brought the‘swallowing' of all the forces of society by the rapacious state power close to complete catastrophe.”.
After their defeat on the LechRiver they were forced to abandon their nomadic and rapacious ways; they settled in the centre of the Carpathian Valley, adopted Christianity and began to build a new state- the Hungarian kingdom.
Under normal circumstances, she would generally only have a maximum of twolitres of milk in her udder at any one time, but rapacious farmers may force her to carry 20 litres or more.
This idyllic setting was purportedly destroyed by the arrival of rapacious capitalist powers who were eager to expand their commercial empires and imposed the trading system and the Westphalian notion of sovereignty, with its notion of the equality of nation states answering to no higher authority.
When the state again started to force bankruptcies in 1998 and 1999,local government officials sold assets(mostly for real estate) to rapacious ex-officials and politically linked private companies for their own use.
This dynamic- unarmed, unorganized, leaderless citizens seeking economic dignity and pluralism, versus a heavily armed,organized, rapacious ruling theocracy that espouses martyrdom- is not a recipe for success.
Many iniquitous and wicked leaders of the people, who live and drag along with them their people outside the laws of God, showing themselves in sheep's clothing,while being rapacious wolves, have ruined society, stirring it up against God and His Church.

