This would mean that the size and role of the Japanese state will shrink, in a slow but remorseless process over the next decade or so.
All through the 1990s and most of the last decade, Tesco was on a remorseless mission to carpet over the UK's high streets and retail parks with stores decked out in its red, blue and white colours.
At the recent World Writers' Conference at the Edinburgh International Book festival, writer and cultural critic China Miéville spoke about "the remorseless prioritisation of recognition over estrangement", the relentless privileging of one kind of story told in one kind of way.
Meanwhile, something about the blend of murder, terror and remorseless evil made greatpoochini come over all seasonal.
Evolution, of course, is a blind, remorseless, theoretical process carried out over many successive iterations, not a sentient actor capable of intent.
Multiphonic, pad-flapping tenor sax sounds echo Evan Parker; the title track is a repeating tenor motif that begins to stretch out over Giles's remorseless groove; and the improvised counterpoint of the organ and tenor later in the set is inspired.
Vettel and Red Bull's sheer, remorseless crushing of their rivals over the last few years may be painful to watch for many fans but it has to be admired.
By 28 January, those three giants had conspired to funnel a remorseless stream of hot tropical air over southern Victoria.
There were signs over the past three weeks that the remorseless standards Messi kept up, his desire to play each and every minute of each and every game, was taking its toll.
But there seems to be a gulf between public perceptions of the BBC (measured in terms of trust and relatively low levels of agitation over overall value) and the remorseless hammering it gets from its fourth estate cousin, the press.
