Sentence examples for ruthless exercise from inspiring English sources

They began a ruthless exercise regimen.

Earning a living from this most aesthetically pleasing of pastimes has always been, paradoxically, a ruthless exercise.

The 54-year-old admits that she is petrified of going under the knife, and keeps her figure by doing a ruthless exercise regime.

They've made it clear that if Mr. Obama suddenly decided to come out in favor of Mother's Day, they would fight against it as a ruthless exercise of federal power and a violation of due process.

The end result is one of the most genuinely disturbing films of the year, a ruthless exercise in audience manipulation that will put even the most hardened genre fans through the emotional mangler.

She became a staunch realist, shunning sentiment in foreign policy, and grew fascinated by the Communist Party's ruthless exercise of power, immune to the normal restraints that operate in a democratic society.

The chickens hatched in that ruthless 2002 exercise have now come home to roost.

All the so-called oligarchs were ruthless in the exercise of political and judicial power to win their assets, but Khodorkovsky and others went on to become the leaders of extremely successful businesses.

He shrewdly understood the limits of power, was ruthless in the exercise of it and cynical enough to disarm critics early in his regime by giving citizens a tax holiday.

Newspapers that called Mr. Mandelson "The Prince of Darkness" for his reputation for exercising ruthless behind-the-scenes power and shaping public perceptions of the Blair government have reported his current claims of contentment with disbelief.

This is a consistently intelligent and engrossing movie about the creation of a self-perpetuating international espionage community, living in a twilight world that gratifies a childish need for fulfilling fantasies, sharing secrets, exercising ruthless power in the belief that you are disinterestedly working for the good of the nation.