Sentence examples for pitiless war from inspiring English sources

The pitiless war waged by a Saudi-led coalition against Shia Houthi rebels in Yemen is only its most brutal manifestation.

Duterte's election and his pitiless war against drugs are terrifying at a time when political scientists warn that democracy is in retreat.

In an earlier novel, "The Heart of the Matter," Greene wrote more coolly, "Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive".

In the troubled 1990s, the country's secular establishment was associated with economic instability (inflation averaged 70%), a pitiless war against the Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK), and a spiteful policy that banned girls in headscarves from public universities.

Together, the brothers Rajapaksa defied international pressure to stanch civilian casualties, squelched dissent, blocked independent reporting of the war and achieved what many had thought all but impossible: they vanquished the Tamil Tigers, who had waged a pitiless war of terror and once ruled swaths of Sri Lankan territory as a de facto state.

At last, after many months of living in apparent denial of the scale of the humanitarian crisis, the Prime Minister has at last given a concrete commitment to help refugees from Syria's pitiless wars.

It was probably too much to expect that the arrival of Ramadan would be sufficient to secure a ceasefire in Yemen's pitiless civil war, and so it has proved.

Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," which first appeared on Broadway in 1947, hits on many themes — including a pitiless industrial war machine, self-denial, crime and punishment, the individual and the community — but the relationship between Chris and Joe is at its center.

From now on, we will wage a pitiless, purifying war against the last elements of our cultural decay".

To the outsider, the differences between the two groups seem minor, but the same could have been said about the Christians who fought pitiless religious wars in medieval Europe and until recently in Ireland.

He weighs the demands of friendship and gratitude against the loftier demands of empire and the pitiless reality of war.