You've been accused of being ruthless.

And, of course, they are cruel and ruthless toward others.

I didn't want to go with this ruthless predator image.

They are ruthless, they are honest, but they're full of energy and fun.

At present, the horizon is brightening perceptibly, despite the desperate acts of ruthless gangs.

Innocent civilians, including women and children, are victims of ruthless killings, maiming, torture, forced recruitment and kidnapping.

We need a robust third party force from outside to stop a ruthless third force from within.

While technically correct, this is a ruthless interpretation, since this type of willing behavior is bound to leave resentment.

If you are a rule bender and an improviser mostly to serve yourself, what you get is ruthless manipulation of other people.

Hare said the reason why is because capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior the lack of empathy, the glibness, cunning, manipulative.

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off

For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off

The European Union was also seriously concerned about recent developments in the Great Lakes region, such as the ruthless attack on the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.

A vote for Judge Kavanaugh is a vote to reject the ruthless and outrageous tactics of the Democratic Party, Trump said at a rally in Wheeling, West Virginia.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

Ruthless leaders mobilize disoriented followers. Particularly the losers, often represented by young men with no future to look forward to, can be induced to take even suicidal action against the alleged enemy.

However cruel, however ruthless you can think this is it's a great design, and it is miles away from the fancy furniture, but still, it's part of my same field of passion.

It is an unfair system of distribution that stems from a distorted matrix whose dominant force is a ruthless thirst for profit and in which growing wealth is based on the expansion and deepening of poverty.

In his conquest of power, Mao Zedong used military tactics derived from Sun Tzu, who lived around 500 BC Confucianism, dating from around the same time, remains at the heart of China s social thinking, despite Mao s ruthless attempts to suppress it.

In other words, Bo bore all the hallmarks of a gangster boss corrupt, ruthless towards his enemies, contemptuous of the law, and yet moralistic in his self presentation. But the same could be said of most Party bosses in China.

Indeed, this is what makes Blatter a typical man of our times. He is a ruthless operator who presents himself as the champion of the developing world, protecting the interests of Africans, Asians, Arabs, and South Americans against the arrogant West.

The current regime in Syria, in its ruthless quest to remain in power, refuses to acknowledge peaceful protesters' demands for freedom and dignity. If it did and if it met those demands Islamists would not be able to hijack the demonstrations.

And recall when Your Lord proclaimed that 'He would continually set in authority over them, till the Day of Judgement, those who would ruthless oppress thern.' Surely, your Lord is swift in chastising and yet He is All Forgiving, All Merciful.

And recall when Your Lord proclaimed that 'He would continually set in authority over them, till the Day of Judgement, those who would ruthless oppress thern.' Surely, your Lord is swift in chastising and yet He is All Forgiving, All Merciful.

To be sure, America is the first name in anti Western resentment. But its second name is Israel, the only successful modern country in the Middle East, which is also highly militarized, an occupying power, and ruthless in defense of its interests.

When it comes to the Koreas, this question may seem to be beside the point, given the ruthless purge now underway in the North. But it remains an essential consideration for the longer term future of North Korea and other outcast regimes.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced its birth while rejecting an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon. Her poor timing made the initiative appear heartless, as thousands of civilians were being uprooted, killed, or maimed by Israel s efficient but ruthless artillery and air force.

CA Well, Richard, when I was starting off in business, I knew nothing about it and I also was sort of I thought that business people were supposed to just be ruthless and that that was the only way you could have a chance of succeeding.

Seen in this light, unilateral schemes, such as the original German proposal (forcing maturities on Greek debt to be voluntarily extended for several years) are only voluntary under the ruthless interpretation. In initiatives of this sort, agreement is obtained reluctantly and pressure could provoke harsh responses.

We must utilize economic and political power for service to humanity instead of misusing it in ruthless battles for domination. We must develop a spirit of compassion with those who suffer, with special care for the children, the aged, the poor, the disabled, the refugees, and the lonely

Reflecting on the legacy of the Great War has also been an occasion for reviving the era s mentalities. In the United Kingdom, Education Secretary Michael Gove recently issued a polemic against historians who emphasized the futility of the war, calling it a just war directed against the ruthless social Darwinism of the German elites.

The first two priorities, if well designed and well implemented, are certainly honorable goals for a government to pursue. The third is less honorable, and likely to fail it relies on the dangerously weak premise that the party in power s political adversaries will be more public spirited and less ruthless when they return to government.

Nowhere is this more clearly reflected than in the case of Syria. What was supposed to be a coordinated effort to protect civilians from ruthless repression and advance a peaceful transition the plan developed by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has now degenerated into a proxy war between the United States and Russia.

Four years ago this month, Zenawi s Ethiopian People s Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF) suffered its worst loss at the polls since the former guerrilla overthrew a ruthless, Soviet backed regime in 1991. Rather than accept its losses, the EPRDF run government responded with a brutal crackdown, claiming outright victory and accusing the opposition of trying to stage an insurrection.

When Jacques Chirac s government decided to expound its economic co operation with China, arms became an important component in the strategy. Just as a ruthless Prime Minister Chirac sold a nuclear reactor to Saddam Hussein in the 1970 s, so the President Chirac of today is being lured into doing big business with another aggressive dictatorship.

The Islamic State is now employing a similar strategy, mixing ruthless military operations with an incendiary social media campaign, punctuated by photos and videos of brutal executions, including the beheading of US and other Western citizens. These efforts have mobilized the Islamic State s enemies, while inspiring a growing number of discontented individuals and groups to self recruit to its banner.

PRINCETON Hitler and Stalin were ruthless dictators who committed murder on a vast scale. But, while it is impossible to imagine a Hitler statue in Berlin, or anywhere else in Germany, statues of Stalin have been restored in towns across Georgia (his birthplace), and another is to be erected in Moscow as part of a commemoration of all Soviet leaders.

The case against a Yanukovych counter revolution is that it would be just that a ruthless effort to undo Ukraine s democratic and legal reforms. Moreover, he would not be left to himself to govern, but would be a marionette of the oligarchs who bankroll his party, and perhaps of Russia, which yearns albeit more discretely than a year ago for his triumph.

The violence in France, fueled by staggering unemployment and ruthless policing, reflects the utter failure of the French model of social integration. But violence elsewhere in Europe, such as the London bombings of July and the brutal murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh on the streets of Amsterdam in November 2004, had already made Europe s failure to integrate its minorities painfully clear.

The FARC s record in previous peace talks reveals a penchant for manipulating negotiations to gain national and international legitimacy without actually being willing to strike a deal. Santos could, therefore, have been tempted to choose the Sri Lanka way a ruthless military onslaught to defeat the insurgents, at the price of major human rights violations and the destruction of civilian communities.

These new friends liked the ruthless use of force, the ethnic nationalism, the continued humiliation of the Palestinians. Keen to revive a more militant form of nationalism in their own countries, politicians like Strache, Wilders, and Dewinter see Israel as a kind of model a model discredited for a long time in Europe, owing to bad memories of fascism and Nazism.

With anemic growth, unemployment stuck between 9 and 10 for more than 20 years, and immigrant ghettos that vacillate between lawlessness and despair, France is indeed one of the sick men of Europe. Where adaptation to ruthless international competition and rapid technological change calls for flexibility and individual responsibility, the dominant culture in France continues to be one of assistance and entitlement.

True, the European working class, not to mention women, did not have voting rights 200 years ago. But even during the most ruthless phases of Western capitalism, civil society in Europe and the US was made up of a huge network of organizations independent of the state churches, clubs, parties, societies, and associations that were available to all social classes.

The case against a Yanukovich counter revolution is that it would be just that a ruthless effort to undo Ukraine s democratic and legal reforms. Moreover, he would not be left to himself to govern, but would be a marionette of the oligarchs who bankroll his party, and perhaps of Russia, which yearns albeit more discretely than a year ago for his triumph.