rapacity

It is the taxpayer, both in Europe and in America, who has to pay for this rapacity and dishonesty.
En Europe comme en Amérique, c'est le contribuable qui devra payer pour cette cupidité et cette malhonnêteté.
Shamelessly, they concluded that the responsibility for these killings lay not with the culprits, but with the victims in that they had refused to resign under pressure and surrender their homeland to western rapacity.
Sans honte, ils ont conclu que la responsabilité de ces assassinats ne revenait pas aux coupables, mais aux victimes en ce qu’elles avaient refusé de démissionner sous leur pression et de livrer leur patrie aux appétits occidentaux.
One notes everywhere a disapproval of the direct request, rapacity, covetousness and, especially, the idea that it is a dishonour to be in the need, to live a life of deprivations and food shortage.
On constate partout une désapprobation de la sollicitation directe, de la rapacité, de la convoitise et, surtout, l'idée que c'est un déshonneur que d'être dans le besoin, vivre une vie de privations et de disette.
The rapacity and corruption of the government officials have resulted in the financial downfall of the country.
La rapacité et la corruption des fonctionnaires ont entraîné la dégradation économique du pays.
As long as these prejudices persist, the struggle for existence must remain dominant, and bloodthirstiness and rapacity continue.
Tant que ces préjugés persisteront, la lutte pour l'existence dominera, la soif de sang et la rapacité continueront.
Lord of heaven and earth, look upon our planet, frequently exploited by human greed and rapacity.
Seigneur du ciel et de la terre, regarde notre planète, que la convoitise et l’avidité des hommes exploitent souvent sans faire preuve de discernement.
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