Discreet, efficient, ruthless.
Allied to Mourinho's tactical tweaks, this club's has been a calculated strategy, forged on efficient, ruthless recruitment within the restrictive nature of financial fair play, generating funds through sales in order to secure the spine required to sustain a proper challenge.
We cloak it in begrudging virtues: "efficient", "clinical", "ruthless".
In a gallery labeled "To Meyer Lansky," there are his home movies, outfits and favorite poems; in another is living room furniture of Sam Giancana, Capone's "efficient and ruthless triggerman".
We haven't been as efficient or ruthless as the opposition – we need to improve that, we need to improve our depth as well".
King Rat was called "one of the most efficient and ruthless killers" on the loyalist side by a government minister, leaving behind him a trail of up to 20 deaths and many devastated lives.
Once Hezbollah was committed to the battle for Qusayr alongside Syrian troops, a spokesman for this most efficient and ruthless militia claimed its fighters had been on their way to the shrine in Damascus but had been misdirected and found themselves in a firefight in no-man's land.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Nov. 21 — More than 28 years after the killing stopped, the first Khmer Rouge defendant stepped into a public courtroom on Tuesday to answer for the deaths of 1.7 million people — a tiny, self-effacing man who once commanded an efficient and ruthless torture house.
It was known to be one of the most efficient yet ruthless armed groups in the world -- designated a terrorist organization by a number of countries, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, India and Australia, among others.
Elizabeth, today commonly described as a formidable woman, was regarded by her contemporaries as an efficient but ruthless politician who used political intrigues to protect and successfully defend her daughters' rights.
She likens this ruthless, efficient alter ego to a superhero.
