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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...

in 1822, his journal describes a "palace economy" that he attributes to rapacity. His mission was delayed at the port of Pak Nam until he had given a satisfactory...

strengths and strategies, their novel economic models, their inherent rapacity, their ambition, and the drastic consequences of their rise that people...

was the procurator of Roman Britain in AD 60 or 61. Tacitus blames his "rapacity" in part for provoking the rebellion of Boudica. Cassius Dio says he confiscated...

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 document cited several grievances, including "Spanish rapacity" and "odious tyranny" and promised religious freedom, freedom of the press...

absolute where feebleness or ignorance do not expose the subject to the rapacity of mandarins, relatives, or speculators. Even savages and foreigners are...

May 2023 Brings new map updates, enemies, and items. Season 3 "Cube of Rapacity" May 2023 – September 2023 Concurrent with the global release and end of...

disgusting elements of the press who reported that the "impudence and rapacity of the FitzJordans is unexampled". The relationship between William and...

acknowledged Sura's military and oratorical talents, but compared his rapacity and devious ways to those of Vespasian's éminence grise Licinius Mucianus...

called the practice of loaning money "detestable and shameful... insatiable rapacity of money lenders, forbidden both by divine and human laws throughout the...

Grant administration with honest, efficient government and to end "the rapacity of carpetbag tyrannies" in the South. It also called for treaty protection...

time acknowledged their justice and found themselves protected from the rapacity of their superiors. In September 1185, Andronikos ordered the execution...

the Devastatio Constantinopolitana all accuse the crusaders of egregious rapacity. Speros Vryonis in Byzantium and Europe gives a vivid account of the sack:...

more secure town of Zahlé on account of the Harfushes' oppression and rapacity, but more critical studies have questioned this interpretation, pointing...

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...

delicate fondness, but they cannot hope to approximate the brilliance and rapacity of his voice, which holds all the novel's disparate elements together....

were the two richest men in the world, and both died on account of their rapacity, and because their riches were not the gift of Heaven. On the other hand...

Grant administration with honest, efficient government and to end "the rapacity of carpetbag tyrannies" in the South; called for treaty protection for...

agriculture and local industries. Thus, the majority of the people suffered from rapacity and corruption carried out in the name of the Shah. In 16th and 17th century...