Sentence examples for ruthless system from inspiring English sources

The current "Leader", Kim Jong-un, may appear ridiculous, with his striking hairdos, bizarre propaganda videos and obsession with American basketball, but his ruthless system is no joke.

"If Blair is out next week, there probably won't be any tears outside his family because it is a ruthless system and it's the way the system works," said Iain McLean, professor of politics at Oxford University.

He campaigned on the need for a less volatile, less ruthless system, one in which the power of the market is harnessed more firmly to the goals of social equity and a fairer distribution of wealth.

And he was instrumental in inviting Igor Stravinsky to Russia in 1962.He was part of a ruthless system; but he did not deliver up Jewish composers to Stalin's goons, and did not write negative references when the party demanded them.

By the turn of the century, the violence of Free State officials against indigenous Congolese and the ruthless system of economic extraction had led to intense diplomatic pressure on Belgium to take official control of the country, which it did in 1908, creating the Belgian Congo.

By the turn of the century, however, the violence of Free State officials against indigenous Congolese and the ruthless system of economic extraction had led to intense diplomatic pressure on Belgium to take official control of the country, which it did in 1908, creating the Belgian Congo.

But what makes the United States better than China and Russia, at least, is that, unlike the secretive and ruthless systems governing those countries, the American constitutional system allows investigation of moral failures, exposure of bad policies and rebuke of leaders who betray high principles.

War may be just around the corner, and so may the end of a ruthless political system that is all many Iraqis have ever known.

The second could perhaps feed the notion that it's all hopeless because we're at the mercy of a ruthless conspiratorial system that will dictate our destiny whatever we do.

She argued on behalf of birth control, defended the bomb throwers of her era as victims of a ruthless capitalist system, opposed women's suffrage because, in her view, it would only further bind women to bourgeois reformism and spoke out against American entry into World War I, which she believed was an imperialist war that was sacrificing ordinary people as cannon fodder.

Early in the book, discussing the butchery of The Magnificent Ambersons and the opposition to Welless unfinished Brazilian film, Its All True, he denounces the suggestion, widely promoted by certain of Welless apologists, that he was the victim of a cynical and ruthless studio system.