Sentence examples for ruthless assassination from inspiring English sources
It is not just that the ruthless assassination of personalities is ugly, but the tone of faintly hysterical aggression that characterises the debate is deeply offputting to many voters.
For Barack Obama, it is a potentially weak flank that he has been able to protect by taking credit for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and by his willingness to conduct a remarkably ruthless assassination-by-drone campaign against al-Qaeda fighters in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
Now that we've secured all of Ireland and I've straightened out our succession through my ruthless assassinations it's time to take back Spain.
It deployed ruthless character assassination against critics within its own ranks.
She has been subjected to a ruthless character assassination, full of sexually explicit slurs.
Meanwhile, Al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate has adopted a new tactic: a ruthless campaign of assassinations that has left 74 military and intelligence officers dead since the start of last year, according to Interior Ministry officials.
By a ruthless policy of siege and assassination, Cesare brought the north of Italy under his control; he conquered the duchies of Romagna, Umbria, and Emilia and earned the admiration of Niccolò Machiavelli, who used Cesare as the model for his classic on politics, The Prince.
Historian Manning Marable characterizes the government's treatment of Du Bois as "ruthless repression" and a "political assassination".
The Qin strategists were ruthless: all means, including lies, espionage, bribery, and assassination, were pressed into the service of their state.
Mr Abdi says Godane proved to be ruthless within al-Shabab as well, ordering his "Amniyat" assassination squad to kill his critics - including US jihadi Omar Hammami, known as al-Amriki, and his one-time mentor and friend Ibrahim al-Afghani.
