rapacious

WordNet

excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" (同)ravening, voracious
in a rapacious manner

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強奪(ごうだつ)する;(特に金銭に対して)貧欲(どんよく)な

English Journal

Self-sale and voluntary entry into unfreedom, 300-1100.

Rio A.AbstractVoluntary entry into unfreedom in late antiquity and the early middle ages has tended to be interpreted as anything but voluntary: instead, self-sales and autodeditions have been seen mostly in terms of coercion, whether by force or by necessity, and associated with particular moments of social crisis. This article argues that the sensitive nature of the topic resulted in an exceptionally misleading representation of self-sales in the legal and literary sources, albeit in divergent ways. Roman and Byzantine law treated self-sale as illegal, while at the same time leaving room for manoeuvre in practice, and took a very judgmental view of self-sellers. Early Christian sources, on the contrary, took them as emblematic of the oppression of the poor, and harnessed them for political admonishment, presenting self-sellers as passive victims of rapacious buyers and bad governance. While diametrically different in their presentation of the moral significance of self-sales, law and literary sources both therefore contribute to the impression that the distinction between free and unfree was the most important social divide. Documentary sources, by contrast, present a very different picture, suggesting a higher degree of continuity (and perhaps frequency) in this practice, but also that it could be the object of active and careful negotiation and bargaining, with people in different social and economic circumstances using free status as an asset for a variety of purposes and in a very instrumental way, far removed in its concerns from the elite discourse which took freedom as an essential value.
Journal of social history.J Soc Hist.2012;45(3):661-85.
Voluntary entry into unfreedom in late antiquity and the early middle ages has tended to be interpreted as anything but voluntary: instead, self-sales and autodeditions have been seen mostly in terms of coercion, whether by force or by necessity, and associated with particular moments of social cris
PMID 22611583

The nobodies: neoliberalism, violence, and migration.

Green L.SourceCenter for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, Anthropology, 122A Haury Building, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. lbgreen@email.arizona.edu
Medical anthropology.Med Anthropol.2011 Jul;30(4):366-85. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2011.576726.
In this article I suggest placing structural vulnerability within a complex web of capitalist relations and tease out some of the forces and processes that now produce at an unprecedented rate disposable people who have been displaced and dislocated from their means of survival by a rapacious capita
PMID 21777123

A planktivorous specialist turns rapacious: piscivory in invading vendace Coregonus albula.

Liso S, Gjelland KØ, Reshetnikov YS, Amundsen PA.SourceDepartment of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of BioSciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway.
Journal of fish biology.J Fish Biol.2011 Jan;78(1):332-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2010.02831.x. Epub 2010 Dec 3.
Following invasion and establishment in a subarctic watercourse, small-sized vendace Coregonus albula were surprisingly found to include fish prey in their diet. The zooplankton resource was severely depleted and only made a minor dietary contribution.© 2010 The Authors. Journal of Fish Biology ©
PMID 21235564

Unrestricted migration favours virulent pathogens in experimental metapopulations: evolutionary genetics of a rapacious life history.

Eshelman CM, Vouk R, Stewart JL, Halsne E, Lindsey HA, Schneider S, Gualu M, Dean AM, Kerr B.SourceDepartment of Biology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences.Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci.2010 Aug 27;365(1552):2503-13. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0066.
Understanding pathogen infectivity and virulence requires combining insights from epidemiology, ecology, evolution and genetics. Although theoretical work in these fields has identified population structure as important for pathogen life-history evolution, experimental tests are scarce. Here, we exp
PMID 20643740

Japanese Journal

The Philippines: predatory regime, growing authoritarian features

Quimpo Nathan Gilbert
The Pacific review 22(3), 335-353, 2009-07
… I argue that the predatory regime, controlled by a rapacious elite, that held sway during the years of the dictator Marcos, has made a comeback in the Philippines. …
NAID 120002808033

鉤状嘴形水差土水器の出土分布 -前2千年紀の中央アナトリアを中心として-

大村幸弘
オリエント 27(1), 1-27, 1984
… The common points between the two types are to have the spout similar to the beak of rapacious bird, and to have well polished surface which reminds us of metal wares. …
NAID 130000822788

The Townの創作と構造をめぐって

田中久男
広島大学文学部紀要 (43), p228-247, 1983-12
… The tendency, in effect, incurs the change of "the inscrutable Flem of Frenchman's Bend into the hypocritical Flem of The Town," a change which diminishes the menace of rapacious, inhuman Snopesism. …
NAID 120000872277

佐渡島およびその近海の端脚類相(予報)

伊藤正一 [他],本間義治,柿元皓
動物分類学会誌 (8), 21-28, 1972-11
… Anonyx nugax and Socarnes vahli are the rapacious scavengers for the immovable fishes that were caught in the gill net. …
NAID 110002339076