Now the temptation persists in other ways: the catalog mentions the "cosmopolitan perspective" of seven centuries of Islamic rule, even though the history itself is much more knotty, periods of great achievement combined with eras of ruthless warfare and sweeping repression.
From 1927 to their victory in 1949, Mao and his companions had waged ruthless warfare (against equally ruthless if less effective nationalist opponents); now the campaign was economic and the farmers and industrial workers were the fodder expected to sacrifice themselves for the cause dictated from on high.
"On one side, Adolf Hitler and ruthless, barbaric warfare; on the other side, democracy, humanism, morality and world civilization itself".
He borrows the title character of "Antonio das Mortes" — Antonio, the Man of the Dead — from his second feature, "Black God, White Devil" (1963), along with its blend of ruthless political warfare and ideological conflict with myth, religion, and fantasy.
Mayweather is a ruthless practitioner of psychological warfare and, partly as a consequence, one of the most successful boxers of his generation.
He was educated at a monestery but very soon abandoned the priesthood to become a soldier, & in the ruthless arts of Ethiopian tribal warfare he was a master.
The novel centers on the tension between Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor and his general, Albrecht von Wallenstein; Wallenstein represents a new type of warfare characterized by ruthless Realpolitik and capitalist expansion while Ferdinand becomes increasingly overwhelmed by the course of events and gradually retreats from politics altogether.
Designed to complement a warrior's swordsmanship in combat, it was a necessarily ruthless style, with the usual object of warfare: crippling or killing an antagonist.
By the grimmest 20th-century standards that may not sound so much, but at the time it was a shockingly ruthless act and one that heralded the way warfare would develop in the 20th century.
It made for a ruthless, murderous, and destructive environment marked with constant warfare.
But it has also been traumatized by years of bloody warfare between the Gulf cartel and the ruthless Zetas drug gang.
