These are irrefutable, merciless facts that add up to the compelling argument that, even taken on its own terms, even being charitable by accepting its own figures, this government has been hugely wasteful and utterly useless.
Perhaps the most remarked upon aspect of Curry's game, other than its Platonic beauty, is that it appears to lack the kind of merciless ferocity that characterized the often brutal genius of Michael Jordan, who, when he wasn't soaring through the air, punched a teammate or two and trash-talked heckling fans.
From their protected position, Hancock's men kept up a merciless barrage that sent "death and destruction in their midst.
Sentencing all seven, Mr Justice Butterfield called the campaign "urban terrorism" and a "relentless, sustained and merciless persecution" that had made the victims' lives "a living hell".
His major theme was the tragedy of the lower classes, and his writing is characterized by the same merciless realism that was later to be a feature of stories by many left-wing writers throughout the Islamic world.
They tend to get squeezed between those well-intentioned regulations and the merciless spreadsheets that calculate profitability and market demands, looking in narrow margins for ways to elevate homes above the basic.
When one considers the merciless criticism that has to be endured by players and officials for failure at national level, there is some provocation for a "win at all costs" approach.
Kaufman could work at home or late in hotel rooms under pressure and do the hard labor, the tedious, glamourless structuring and rewriting and merciless cutting that is crucial to making comedy breathe.
They leaned on their misfit, throwback quarterback, Rich Gannon; followed the lead of a coach who exudes the passion John Madden once did, Jon Gruden; and thrived on a merciless defense that plucked the wings off Miami's vulnerable quarterback, Jay Fiedler.
