Sentence examples for ruthless extraction from inspiring English sources
Writing here recently about Hawks's "To Have and Have Not," I noted the ruthless extraction and abstraction to which he submitted Hemingway's novel in order to make a good movie from it.
Out of every £10 paid at the petrol pump, more than £8 is tax, one of the highest rates of duty in the world.Despite this ruthless rate of added extraction, increased by Gordon Brown in his first budget by another percentage point, to 6%, the public have not objected.
His opening up public lands to ruthless mining and mineral extraction is lazily reported, for the most part, as being a fulfillment of his pledge to bring back jobs in extra active industries, particularly coal mining – job creation would be clientalism But in reality Trump's policy shifts to date have been anti-job.
By the turn of the century, the violence of Free State officials against indigenous Congolese and the ruthless system of economic extraction had led to intense diplomatic pressure on Belgium to take official control of the country, which it did in 1908, creating the Belgian Congo.
By the turn of the century, however, the violence of Free State officials against indigenous Congolese and the ruthless system of economic extraction had led to intense diplomatic pressure on Belgium to take official control of the country, which it did in 1908, creating the Belgian Congo.
Prendergast, who co-founded the Center for American Progress's Enough Project, which works to end genocide and human rights abuses, put it like this in last week's New York Times: "There will be no peace in Congo as long as ruthless interests can make immense profits from the extraction of minerals and other resources, with the connivance of regional governments".
A janitor killed in the attack on the offices and the policeman whose ruthless execution shocked the world were both of North African extraction.
In the ruthless course of modernity, our approach to nature has been one of extraction and use.
