ABC has described "Hollywood Wives" in various terms: a lush dramatic tale of the private wars and ruthless rivalries that make the movie business deadly fun..
Throughout his dealings in Russia, during a period of often ruthless business rivalry, he stood out because of his US citizenship and connections.
1) We live in a world of ruthless economic rivalry, so if Americans aren't willing to stand up for the economic interests of Americans, we just get rolled by multinational corporations and foreign powers that lack such delicate qualms.
Even a dumb lawyer like me can see that modern global supply chains have made "a world of ruthless economic rivalry" a thing of the distant past, and that trade (i.e., voluntary, mutually beneficial exchanges) has never, ever been a zero sum game.
Its ruthless female rivalries, maudlin dialogue and tawdry show-business abuses are catnip for any devotee of camp.
After its American release, the film made an international star of Clint Eastwood, who played a sullen gunslinger embroiled in a rivalry between two ruthless families in a dusty frontier town.
Chlotar was ruthless and brutal, and the family rivalries and sometimes open hostilities in which he figured prominently were characteristic of Merovingian history; in 560 he even had his rebellious son, Chram, together with Chram's family, put to death.
ABC's splashy promotional campaign has primarily focused on the rivalry between a young and ruthless country-pop diva (played by Hayden Panettiere) and a past-her-peak superstar (played by Connie Britton).
Mr. Shapiro's direction is unusually static, thereby underscoring the coldness of a Scottish society that encourages ruinous rivalry between families and the ruthless treatment of one sibling by another.
But the Arab-African rivalry has long festered here, and the most ruthless weapon has been the mounted Janjaweed fighters, who know no rules of war.
Ruthless networking has a big role in coming weeks, when friendship, rivalry and business overlap.
