Sentence examples for ruthless efforts from inspiring English sources

A Treasury statement said Hezbollah's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, had overseen these activities, which it called part of the Syria government's "increasingly ruthless efforts to fight against the opposition".

For much of the past decade, Mr. Kadyrov has been the point man in Russia's often ruthless efforts to quash a simmering Islamist insurgency that emerged after two wars in Chechnya.

The heart of the drama lies in her attempt to press her claim against the L.A.P.D. in the face of Davis's ruthless efforts to silence her, and the help she gets from a firebrand minister (John Malkovich) who inveighs from the pulpit against police corruption, and from a prominent attorney (Geoffrey Pierson) who takes her case pro bono.

From its ruthless efforts at union-busting to its determination to overcome basic safety and hours regulation to its widespread employment of sweatshop subcontractors in China, Wal-Mart has consistently maintained that no one has the right to limit the corporation's freedom to act as it pleases.

Despite the security forces' concerted and ruthless efforts, and pledges by President Assad to start a "national dialogue" on reform, the uprising continued unabated in almost every part of the country.

We are plagued by a political world, domestically and internationally, of winners and losers, no prisoners taken, ruthless efforts to create the blessed and the cursed, and we see that in such a world there are a string of Pyrrhic victories, but no real blessedness that emerges from the deluge of curses.

The ZANU-PF government has been ruthless in its efforts to cling to power, and has used the land issue to whip up support.

But from this point on — goaded by his ambitious wife — he is ruthless in his efforts to gain control of the business.

As the 1% grows more ruthless in its efforts to maintain the status quo, we can expect more of the same.

Although he campaigned against the Iraq war and the use of torture, Obama has maintained ruthless counter-terrorism efforts: CNN reported last year the current president has ordered almost six times as many drone strikes on Pakistani targets as former president George W. Bush did during his entire time in office.

Centered on an unseen Confederate con man, and his dotty, delusional wife, it becomes a rarefied study of ruthless people, demanding effort, patience and endurance.