(1) He also told MPs the Libya campaign had shown Nato's over reliance on the US, and how it had "cruelly exposed" the limitations of the capabilities of some European countries.
(2) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(3) This bi-polar world cruelly separated millions of families.
(4) The NT makes an ambitious and worthwhile argument: the evidence of a misaligned system of food production is evident at almost every stage – in polluted watercourses and compacted land, in horsemeat passed off as beef and foreign produce repackaged and traded as British, in gangmasters cruelly exploiting migrant labour, and the processing industry cheating on quality.
(5) John Banville I find The Story of O deeply erotic precisely because the woman at the centre of it holds all the power, even though she seems the one most cruelly treated.
(6) Behind that shy charm was solid steel, capable of being applied quite cruelly in the paper’s interests To his father’s dismay, David seemed a lost soul after Eton and Oxford, but with the outbreak of war he began to involve himself with the Observer .
(7) Then there were the awful photographs of Liverpool football fans cruelly pressed against the crowd-control fences of Hillsborough: surely those people couldn't be dying on that spring afternoon?
(8) Nobody can argue that the road network is inadequate, and a move would in turn generate work - WILLIAMDAVIES It is the south-west that has been even more cruelly ignored by parties of all persuasions.
(9) Vanuatu is another country where we are doing that work although, cruelly, they’ve already had a head start due to the repairing of water systems due to cyclone Pam.
(10) Two months later, Henson died suddenly at the cruelly young age of 53.
(11) So instead of Texas's celebrations the most vital lasting image of the day had nothing to do with Texas’s triumph, it was the sight of the players on the ASU bench, collapsed on the floor, their chance at making history cruelly extinguished.
(12) Cruelly, it was not until several years later that Ali admitted he was suffering from the disease.
(13) It was US diplomats who back in November 2008 cruelly dubbed him Robin, to Vladimir Putin's Batman.
(14) The previous Friday, I took a photo that went viral of pro-police brutality demonstrators wearing sweatshirts which read, “I Can Breathe”, cruelly taunting Black Lives Matter activists by twisting Eric Garner’s final words.
(15) Amnesty said: "Maikel Nabil Sanad's trial has been rife with flaws and unnecessary delays, and the decision of the appeals court for a retrial brings him back to square one, cruelly toying with his life.
(16) Poland underwent a frenzy of over-excited hype about its shale gas deposits, only to be cruelly disappointed by the detailed geology.
(17) "I was cruelly tricked and it has made me very angry.
(18) Another debate speaker launched a simile about a broken-legged camel that was cruelly cut off by the red light.)
(19) By my early 20s I had been cruelly disabused of the notion that the young live for ever.
(20) They were intended, cruelly, to entertain with their abnormal physical condition, but deeper and mysterious qualities were attributed to dwarves, as they were to Lear’s Fool and later to clowns: of intellectual prowess, clairvoyance and wisdom in the hollow laughter that ridicules power, and watches the march of time and age as a leveller of men.
Ruthlessly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) AB InBev has cut costs ruthlessly as it has bought up companies around the world, including Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of US beer Budweiser.
(2) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(3) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(6) But Hilton insists critics are wrong to see the group as ruthless youngsters who meet purely to further their own careers.
(7) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
(8) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.
(9) The "consultation" and "informed consent" the reports insist must take place before the project goes ahead are a sick joke in a region in which dissent is ruthlessly crushed and people are imprisoned and tortured simply for speaking their own language.
(10) She is also waiting to hear if she has won a second Olivier award, this time for her role as the ruthless Hollywood agent in The Little Dog Laughed, the play that transferred from Broadway to the West End last year.
(11) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
(12) "What is clear is that they are as ruthless as any Islamist group or terrorists anywhere in the world," said Antony Goldman, a west Africa risk analyst at London-based PM Consulting.
(13) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
(14) If there was reason to be worried following five successive defeats, their worst run of the century, they showed no sign of panic during a ruthless attacking performance which guarantees they will spend Christmas in the top six.
(15) She was ambitious, and Colonel Gaddafi has always promoted ruthless people.
(16) Every couple of years, evidence emerges to underline the unparalleled nature of the state onslaught and ruthless rule-breaking to overcome resistance in the mining communities, bought at a cost of £37bn in today's prices .
(17) The footage underscores the ruthlessness of fighting in Pakistan's border areas, where the army has also faced allegations of massacres.
(18) Philip French championed Boyle's career from the outset, describing his debut feature film, Shallow Grave , as "a good piece of storytelling... Hitchcock would have admired its ruthlessness and cruel humour."
(19) In the past decade, European migration was used as a sort of 21st-century incomes policy in Britain as employers ruthlessly exploited migrant labour to hold down wages – which have since been cut in real terms for four years in a row as a result of the crisis.
(20) But we can all probably do without Fifa's "fair play in marketing" lectures, which clothe commercial ruthlessness in the language of sporting decency, apparently oblivious to the impression given by wallpapering every stadium with signs that push BP or declare "We proudly accept only Visa".