Sentence examples for ruthless campaign from inspiring English sources

All political activity was suspended and a ruthless campaign to eliminate left-wing resistance was conducted.

As chief minister, he pressed a ruthless campaign against bandits in Uttar Pradesh.

Their ruthless campaign of violence and intimidation against a largely peaceful -- and extremely courageous -- opposition proves just the opposite.

Claiming to "soothe" ethnic tensions in the fractious nation, home to more than 100 ethnic groups, the regime began a ruthless campaign to eradicate all opposition.

His successor after the third ballot in a ruthless campaign was the Guyana-born leader of Haringey council, Bernie Grant.

In England, her mother, now a widow, had "embarked upon a ruthless campaign" to separate her from Crowder.

Then the Tories further undermined the case for change with ruthless campaigning.He tried to look all shocked at the ruthlessness of Mr Osborne.

After a series of ruthless campaigns, Prussia was conquered and resettled by Germans the old Prussian population having been virtually wiped out.

Hughes also insisted that reform of party funding was essential to stop the Conservatives running ruthless campaigns – as they had against electoral reform.

In May 1992, the town was subjected to "one of the most comprehensive and ruthless campaigns of ethnic cleansing in the Bosnian conflict", with some 3,000 (Muslim) Bosniaks killed, many on this bridge, their bodies dumped in the river.

For other African leaders who wield Mugabe's longtime brand of power, marked by ruthless campaigns against domestic enemies and scornful dismissal of scolding by successive U.S. administrations, the Zimbabwean president's fall is a cautionary tale.