The return of the Benin bronzes to Nigeria “could contribute in significant ways to the necessary task of repair, of healing long-festering psychological wounds inflicted on Africans during that moment of violent, rapacious encounter with European colonial machinery and ideology”, he argues.
Source: Art Newspaper
Anderson in the 1980s initially was supportive of the environmental movement that challenged the nation’s biggest timber companies over their rapacious logging practices on the North Coast.
Source: Ukiah Daily Journal
The problem is that once you file that patent, the university’s technology transfer office sends it to a rapacious pharmaceutical giant that makes sure that the 2.
Source: The Real News Network
A rapacious rich guy wants to run all the people out of a small town because the land’s about to be worth a lot of money, so he sends in a Black sheriff, knowing that the town’s residents will be too blinded by their own racism to look after their self-interests.
Source: Boing Boing
You Can’t Take It With You, in 1938, is an offbeat comedy about a free-spirited family threatened by a rapacious banker.
Source: National Catholic Register
Now, these waters face a much larger, more rapacious hunter: China.
Source: The New York Times
National Treasure: Edge Of History Thanks to Jess’ (missing) father, the Freemasons acquired proof that centuries ago an underground network of Indigenous women hid Montezuma’s treasure from rapacious Spaniards.
Source: Yahoo Entertainment
On one hand, that’s sort of like Michael Scott “deciding” to fire someone after they resign; on the other, getting tossed by an organization notorious for laundering the reputations of the world’s most rapacious corporations just might be the most “punk” thing BrewDog has ever done.
Source: VinePair
And finally, the most Fukuyama-core, 1990s movie of them all: “You’ve Got Mail,” in which anonymous online romance, rapacious corporate capitalism and a fast-gentrifying New York City provide the terrain for an old-fashioned meet-cute romance and cozy domestic bliss.
Source: The New York Times
Set in a truly dystopian vision of the 41st millennium, players take command of an army drawn from one of the Warhammer 40k factions, such as the cruel Drukhari, rapacious Tyranids, or sinister, monastic Space Marines.
Source: Wargamer
They have a duty to defend freedom of expression and to combat rapacious publishers, just as trade unionists have a duty to stand up to the bosses on a worker’s behalf, regardless of whether they privately believe the worker is a shirker.
Source: The Spectator
She also called for a shift in mindset across societies to change consumption habits and break with existing economic models that drive the rapacious resource grabbing from the Amazon.
Source: InsideClimate News
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