Sentence examples for ruthless state from inspiring English sources

Bombings, assassinations and abductions are common in the region, where equally ruthless state security forces are pitted against the extremists.

In South Korea, by contrast, industrial policy was more ruthless: state help for businesses was temporary and linked to performance in exports and innovation.Because of this dismal history, the IDB rebrands "industrial policy" as "productive development policies".

Whatever combination the coach settles on over the next couple of days, he is already sure of one thing: he wants his players to approach this game in a ruthless state of mind.

According to advocacy group the Arakan Project, 900 Rohingya are now attempting to leave Burma every day, pitting them against ruthless state authorities who profit from their desperation to leave.

By trying to understand the propaganda, and the dreams North Koreans are sold, we can start to understand what happened to this country, how it evolved into this ruthless state, and what it's like to live there.

It has demonstrated itself to be a violent and ruthless state, as was clearly shown by the recent massacres in Gaza, and was even prepared to further challenge international law by its use of phosphorous weapons.

More recently, it has been willing to kick invaders out of Kuwait, to strike at ruthless states like Libya and Iraq and, moreover, to go on trying to contain them with sanctions and, in Iraq's case, with almost incessant bombardment.

Syria and Iraq, meanwhile, insist the Islamic Front and other rebel groups are no different from the ruthless Islamic State (Isis), which is trying to carve a self-governed caliphate from the ruins of both nation states.

Never far from the surface of these concerns, of course, is the memory of Russia's seven decades as a rigid and ruthless police state.

Thanks in part to ruthless gerrymandering, state politicians are sharply divided between tax-loathing Republicans and public services-loving Democrats.The Republicans, who make up less than half but more than a third of both the Assembly and the Senate, resisted any tax raises this summer and will probably do so again.

Cumings suggests that "a civil conflict purely among Koreans might have resolved the extraordinary tensions generated by colonialism, national division and foreign intervention" — a resolution that would almost surely have ended with mass murder and a ruthless totalitarian state stretching across all of Korea.