Sentence examples for ruthless opponents from inspiring English sources

That tenuous grip was ripped away by ruthless opponents.

Holding also that "the race was to the swift and the battle to the strong," he showed characters defeated by stronger and more ruthless opponents.

Their patents would have been quickly infringed by predatory larger corporations, and rather than engage in unequal litigation battles against deep-pocketed and ruthless opponents, they could have felt forced to share their technology on concessionary terms.

Excessive brutality can be counterproductive in fighting an insurgency (as the French discovered in Algeria), but there is also a danger of playing by Marquess of Queensbury rules against ruthless opponents.

As the men tucked into a traditional Sri Lankan dinner of rice pancakes and curry, Sirisena gave no indication of what he was about to do: declare a candidacy that would unite the fragmented opposition in a high-risk gamble against entrenched and ruthless opponents.

For large periods of the match the South Americans were reduced to chasing shadows but when they did have the ball they were swiftly closed down by their ruthless opponents.

It seems certain, discounting the myth-making of the chroniclers, that Richard was a frightening and ruthless opponent.

The film is a quasi-operatic tribute to the sixteenth-century Tsar Ivan IV, a modernizer and unifier of Russia: the founder of Russia's standing Army, commander of major military victories, and ruthless opponent of the power of the landed aristocracy.

He left the United States in 1967 and, with help from the C.I.A., joined the Venezuelan intelligence service, rising quickly to become the chief of operations and proving a ruthless opponent to leftist guerillas.

United deserved the win for their incision and the composure of a callow three-man defence, but they might not have been given the chance by a more ruthless opponent.

In 1972, Voorhis authored a book, The Strange Case of Richard Milhous Nixon, in which he stated that Nixon was "quite a ruthless opponent" whose "one cardinal and unbreakable rule of conduct" was "to win, whatever it takes to do it".