In April 1945, the Prater Park had been the site of the ruthless final combat between the advancing Red Army and the last of the SS defenders.
Self-sacrifice in combat, ruthless violence, the sanguine acceptance that there is no other way.
They are rumoured to be the most brutal, ruthless club in combat, and they are totally democratic, with no club president.
When a luxury coach on which Reacher has hitched a ride crashes in the middle of the snow-ravaged South Dakota prairie, he finds himself stranded, then co-opted by the local police as they struggle to maintain security at a new prison and combat a ruthless meth dealer who's operating long-distance from Mexico.
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy.
Designed to complement a warrior's swordsmanship in combat, it was a necessarily ruthless style, with the usual object of warfare: crippling or killing an antagonist.
In an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, security minister Ben Wallace hit out at tech platforms like Facebook and Google, dubbing such companies "ruthless profiteers" and saying they are doing too little to help the government combat online extremism and terrorism despite hateful messages spreading via their platforms.
Ruthless and fearless, legend has it that Grace gave birth to one of her sons aboard a ship, then engaged in combat a day later to defend the vessel.
His identity, carefully constructed, replete with a new body, a new psyche, desensitized and ruthless, is a soldier's identity, a hero's identity, and that conflicts with everything that he was; indeed, combats it.
