Sentences with phrase «ruthlessness as»

That symbolized his end - justifies - the - means ruthlessness as a political operator.

The current profile of Kim focuses on his tendencies for ruthlessness as well as rationality.

Not exact matches

Individualism, in fact, gained a new status, encouraging aggressiveness, if not ruthlessness, in the pursuit of individual enterprise as adaptability and the competitiveness it entailed.

In one photo, a grieving Arab mother shown at the grave of her son was presented to the public as a victim of Israeli ruthlessness.

But if the best be bad, then the ruthlessness of god can be personified as Ate, the goddess of mischief.

I don't think any pundit / fan would ever dispute their talents as players... But ruthlessness is not a term generally associated with our stars..

The thing is it doesn't matter how best Wenger knows things these days as he is pitted against very wealthy and powerful club owners who's ruthlessness is second nature.

In his defence, as a striker, he has to have that ruthlessness in him to claim every goal and be as prolific as possible.

The Frenchman hasn't shown the same ruthlessness if you like as Conte, and perhaps this statement from the Chelsea coach says it all about the difference between them and why Chelsea are going to win the title this season and not Arsenal.

If things continue to like this we'll always be begging players to stay because we know if they leave there's no hope.As if we care if he's difficult to deal with.The thing is he's doing his job well.For some years now it looks as if we've become a one man team and always begging players to stay.We can't even handle our own players.They always seem to be the one's dictating to the coach and the club.We tend to give players the right to feel a bit big due to poor management.For how long will this continue.Any time a top player wants to leave the club he becomes the controller of things.When can Arsenal show authority.We keep milking our players.There's no ruthlessness from our manager.

Arsenal will have lots of the ball as usual, but I'm not sure if we have the ruthlessness, maturity and efficiency to finish Chelsea off.

The ruthlessness in the decisions made in moving on a lot of our squad players shows that we are in a rebuilding phase as our squad is massively depleted now so I reckon that summer will be an even bigger window for us especially with Sanlehhi and Mislintat involved!

His lack of ruthlessness (or abundance of loyalty, if you want to look at it that way) is at once endearing and frustrating, and marks him as the opposite of Fergie.

The Citizens did start brightly last season but fixture congestion and a lack of ruthlessness left Pep's side fighting for Champions League qualification as the season came to its climax.

In particular, the wing wizardry of Erik Lamela, the ruthlessness of Roberto Soldado, and the creativity of Christian Eriksen are all qualities that Tottenham will need in the post-Bale era, and at first glance it seems as though AVB has bought well.

Secondly the increasingly annoying Tony Cascarino, who I scarcely ever agree with, says that Auba's gesture to le5 Laca take the pen was a sign that he lacks the ruthlessness of a top striker (as if he would know!).

Michael Keane says Everton are «doing everything we can» in an effort to engineer an upturn in results — but paid the price for a lack of ruthlessness in the final third as they suffered a 1 - 0 defeat by Burnley.

He has now written Dragons 10 Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain (Head of Zeus # 30) in which he argues that Britain's rise to global dominance owed as much to the energy and creativity and ruthlessness of traders, industrialists and bankers, as it did to ministers, diplomats or military men.

To be a successful political leader, or for that matter businessman or general, ruthlessness is a real requirement, although in democracies it must be concealed as far as possible.

One criterion not used by the editors as part of their framework is «ruthlessness».

It's probably more a case of a desire to be led from the front, for him to deploy against the Government the ruthlessness he showed by denying Ed Balls the shadow Chancellor's post and ousting Nick Brown as Labour's chief whip.

It's the kind of ruthlessness that the Australians have been criticised for in the past but which has been lacking from the Indian team, who threw the towel in after Boxing Day, almost as though they didn't get the presents they wanted for Christmas.

But his ability to remain in power for two decades, until he was forced to step down this week, stemmed as much from his careful consideration of the conference's needs as from his ruthlessness.

The ruthlessness he exhibits in his preparation foreshadows the determination of the athletes we recognise today, indicating the kind of selfless spirit which has become diluted and eroded as more of Abrahams» archetypes have passed through all forms of sport.

The teens I know accepted the combat as a given, while their elders, bewildered, and looking for a little meaning, interpreted the story as a representation of how kids felt about the competitive traumas of high school; or as a metaphor for capitalism, with its terrifying job market and winner - take - all ethos; or, more simply, as a satiric exaggeration of talent - show ruthlessness.

Joe's special skills and reputation for ruthlessness lead to him being hired by John McCleary (John Doman, pictured below), who acts as his off - the - radar booking agent, to find the missing teenage daughter of Senator Votto (Alex Manette).

Even so, his film works hard to blow its own credibility at every turn and emphasises just how out of touch it is by presenting the cyber agencies of United States and China as lacking the capability, firepower and ruthlessness of a few moustache - twirling baddies.

Led by sweetly smiling, grandmotherly matriarch Smurf (Jacki Weaver) as they fume and feud in Melbourne's suburbs, this motley gang of five's only outstanding quality is their ruthlessness.

Jason Isaacs is Georgy Zhukov, a World War II hero and general who had fallen somewhat out of favor at the time of Stalin's death, but entered the power struggle in a big way thanks to his understanding of Stalin as well as his own ruthlessness.

Charlize Theron and Joel Edgerton co-star in the film as the heads of the business that is running the operation, and Theron in particular brings a cunning ruthlessness to her character that looks to be delightful.

Perhaps the respect was always there, but fighting alongside Yellow Hawk as they face the feral ruthlessness of a land stolen and torn apart brings a certain mutual admiration and empathy.

A master at building flawed characters, Mitchell emphasizes Scarlett's business smarts and adaptability, not just her feminine wiles and ruthlessness, as she emerges from the Civil War as a woman uniquely suited to thrive among the wreckage.

A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

I don't doubt you, though, I've been close enough — not as close as you — to such outfits to know there's almost a prideful ruthlessness you see come into play at times.

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His plots reveal the egos and ruthlessness that motivate the players in the financial sector, as well as the inner workings of the most powerful of our financial institutions.

A certain kind of creative ruthlessness connects the various artists represented in «Low Life Slow Life,» from the raw ugliness of Robert Mallary's «Little Hans» (1963), a sculpture made of resin - dipped tuxedos, to the sheds - present in the exhibition but sealed shut - containing all the paintings acknowledged as his own by McCarthy's friend, Al Payne, who died during the show's preparation.

His exuberant improvisatory canvases had a ruthlessness, as he painted out passages of paint other artists would have killed to have created, in pursuit of a visceral anti-perfection, a sense of mystery and ritual that made the efforts of his British peers look positively effete in comparison.

All this talk of the obstinacy and ruthlessness of Detroit comes as no surprise to Andrew Frank, an engineering professor at the University of California at Davis.

Yes, we know the value of the on - time delivery and the ruthlessness of the deadlines.You will receive your application paper on time as we do our best to meet the craziest deadlines.

Within this broadly antisocial group, the most severe subgroup is the so - called psychopaths, who have core psychopathic personality traits such as ruthlessness, callousness, and remorselessness.