Sentence examples for ruthless player from inspiring English sources

Instead of practicing the old crimes of drug dealing and white slavery, Chen too is a ruthless player in the global financial markets.

They stand mutually aloof, in contrast with the ruthless player-agent business, in which charges of client poaching fly daily.

In the sixteenth century, the Spanish clergyman Ruy López advised ruthless players to sit their opponent "with the sun in his eyes".

Celtic's band of ruthless players on Saturday was drawn from a dozen overseas nations — and a single Scot, Shaun Maloney, lined up at the start.

The hand immediately preceding the final table the last nine of the tournament's 839 competitors who would play for $2.5m pitted Phil Ivey, one of the sharpest and most ruthless players of his time, against Chris Moneymaker, an unknown 27-year-old accountant from Nashville.

He showed he is as dominant and ruthless a player as there is in world cricket.

A ruthless poker player can be the soul of virtue and decency when he gets up from the table.

Should we proceed?" Santos, who is said to be an astute and ruthless poker player, said that he had to make a quick decision: "We had begun our talks with the FARC, and I didn't want to ruin them".

It was clear he was a ruthless top player.

Payne, who won an Oscar nod for his screenplay and would go on to helm the critically acclaimed "About Schmidt" (2002) and "Sideways" (2004), puts his prodigious talent on full display here, actually drawing inspiration from Budd Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run?", a landmark 1950's TV production about a slimy, ruthless Hollywood player.

In the US, the New York Times told readers: "The most ruthless soccer players often use their hands or elbows or knees to rough up opposing players.