Sentences with 'rapacity'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rapacity and other words derived from it.
• « Rome and Persia did not wage war constantly, but when they did Persia was forced to devote enormous resources to containing Roman rapacity (the buffer state of Armenia changed hands a bewildering number of times in the process). »
• « Despite the rapacity of the initial invasions, French rule brought with it certain reforms beneficial to the puppet states created by France, all of them the product of the innovations of the French Revolution a decade earlier: single customs zones, unified systems of weights and measures, written constitutions, equality before the law, the abolition of archaic noble privileges, the secularisation of ecclesiastical property, the abolition of serfdom and religious toleration. »