Appointees who proved ideologically unreliable, like Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, were quickly and ruthlessly eliminated by Cheney.
In Somalia, commanders of the al-Shabaab movement ruthlessly eliminated pro-Isis factions that wanted to repudiate the group's five-year-old allegiance to al-Qaida.
And, across the world, new jobs are being created while others are ruthlessly eliminated at a pace humanity has never seen before.
The Gestapo ruthlessly eliminated opposition to the Nazis within Germany and its occupied territories and, in partnership with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD: "Security Service"), was responsible for the roundup of Jews throughout Europe for deportation to extermination camps.
Syco's back catalogue ranges from boybands to opera, but it only really deals in one kind of music: the kind that's had every last vestige of character ruthlessly eliminated from it.
On the throne, she remained a great patroness — her collection of Van Dycks and Rembrandts formed the core of the Hermitage Museum — but largely abandoned progressive notions and ruthlessly eliminated opposition, while expanding her dominion over Turkish and Polish lands.
