Sentence examples for ruthless operator from inspiring English sources

What a ruthless operator, glossing her ambitious way back to the White House.

Always a ruthless operator, Mugabe is certain to have negotiated hard over the conditions for his relinquishing of power.

And the current prime minister, Najib Tun Razak, has the image of being a more ruthless operator than his predecessor, the ineffectual Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Certainly, his shooting of Simon last week marked Thomas out as a ruthless operator, which doesn't bode well for Camille, the latest returnee on his wanted list.

He was a ruthless operator, manoeuvring himself into a position at the head of the People's Action Party (PAP) to become Singapore's first prime minister when self-governance arrived in 1959.

But his courtesy and his aversion to confrontation left his beloved GM more vulnerable to this year's shocks than it might have been if a more ruthless operator had been in charge.

These schemes enabled the most ruthless operators to accrue huge profits.

"The Reservoir Act was legislation to protect and ensure safety, but in the hands of ruthless operators they can use the law to their own advantage.

That is good news not only for workers, but also for firms with high (or at least modest) standards which put them at a competitive disadvantage to more ruthless operators.

The worry has to be that those keenest to use the act to threaten people with disconnection will be ruthless operators who act for owners of content that nobody would describe as mainstream.

Hughes says the Tories have shown themselves to be "ruthless" operators in the first 16 months of the coalition over the referendum on electoral reform and boundary changes, and says the resurgent right of the party is "extreme" on issues such as Europe and tax.