And they tend to elicit the most ruthless of responses.
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So he was a justifier of the most ruthless capitalism.
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This is the record business at it's most ruthless and shady.
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The large naval presence today deters all but the most ruthless buccaneers.
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Some of the most ruthless online abuse comes in the name of celebrity fandom.
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Soleimani was one of the most ruthless and vicious members of the Ayatollah's regime.
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The LTTE is among the most ruthless and bloodthirsty organizations to have infested the planet.
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Syria is a failed state, torn apart by some of the world's most ruthless killers.
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That approach will always trump the most ruthless bottom-line focus in the long run.
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"I dealt with the most ruthless, dangerous terrorists in Balkans and Middle East," he said.
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He is believed to be the exponent of the most ruthless wing of the organization.
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We left reality — and real problems — to be defined by the most ruthless, unscrupulous players.
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Most importantly, she has the most ruthless warriors in all of Westeros bowing at her feet.
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In fact, the world's most brutal regimes are also the most ruthless violators of human rights.
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Anyone who is threatened the way the Britons are must turn to the most ruthless realpolitik.
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The Soviet leader is often pointed to as one of the most ruthless authoritarians in history.
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"He's one of the most ruthless, disgusting, go-for-blood lawyers in divorce," she informs her friend.
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She went from a quiet and unassuming survivor on the show's periphery to its most ruthless killer.
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Why did Cersei, the most ruthless, independent woman on this show, die in the arms of a man?
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According to the prosecution, Mr. Ntaganda was one of the most ruthless and cruel of Congo's rebel leaders.
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Running out of time Meanwhile, Guzman was running with his most ruthless assassin by his side: Cholo Ivan.
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"Here we are facing their most ruthless fighters," says Adnan Afrin, commander of SDF forces at the front.
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Survey respondents assigned "most ruthless" status to four banks — Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley.
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Fleck, under the Joker persona, goes on to become one of the most ruthless, violent villains in Batman lore.
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Veering away from the standard female superhero trope, she is the most ruthless, savage, and dangerous character in the film.
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He was Mugabe's closest aide for much of his career and presided over some of the leader's most ruthless actions.
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We've been told time and again that Carol is one of the savviest and most ruthless survivors on The Walking Dead.
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Thrones fans are theorizing that she's on the brink of losing it, with her most ruthless impulses poised to take over.
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Netanyahu, who has the strong backing of President Trump, is at his shrewdest and most ruthless when backed into a corner.
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Soleimani was the Iranian Regime's most ruthless butcher, a monster who murdered or wounded thousands of American service members in Iraq.
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Suleimani was the Iranian regime's most ruthless butcher, a monster who murdered or wounded thousands of American service members in Iraq.
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Queen Headey, now a four-time nominee, was recognized for being the most ruthless, paranoid queen in the Seven Kingdoms, Cersei Lannister.
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Two of the 20th Century's most ruthless tyrants—China's dictator Mao Tse-Tung and the USSR's tyrant Joseph Stalin—were effectively deterred.
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But in taking over Megan's body, Loma's tasked with living and carrying on as Megan, the meanest, most ruthless girl in school.
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Instead, underneath distracting surface spectacles like his trolling on Twitter, he is delivering the most ruthless, conventionally conservative domestic policy in memory.
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China, which is considered the most ruthless country when it comes to capital punishment, has not been included in the total since 2009.
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The former livestock trader gained international notoriety as one of the most ruthless militia commanders in the Darfur war that began in 2003.
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That means even the most ruthless, profit-seeking farmer in the world would go green in many cases—it's just a cheaper alternative.
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Yet if these mentors are teaching AI to be the most ruthless capitalist it can be, of course it's going to be sociopathic.
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The same rules apply to creditors seeking to collect debts, which lawyers and advocates say can be some of the most ruthless dialers.
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"Ossama is the most ruthless... due to the torture practised, (he) was responsible for two murders of two migrants," another migrant told investigators.
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Schlafly liked to play the part of a housewife, but in reality, she was one of the most ruthless and ambitious women in America.
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Such strict door policies have earned Greenwood, who runs the pub with his wife, a reputation as one of the city's most ruthless landlords.
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So both leaders, two of the savviest and most ruthless tacticians of the era, are working to exploit this unmapped wilderness to their advantage.
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If we accept the free market analogy, dating encourages our most ruthless and defensive behaviors, and reduces each of us to goods (damaged or not).
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Parlato says Clare is among the most "ruthless" and "fanatical" Raniere devotees, who along with her sister has sunk more than $100 million into Nxivm ventures.
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Russia has also supported some of the most ruthless authoritarian leaders in the world, including Bashar Assad in Syria and Kim Jong Un in North Korea.
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Take the sequence in which the protagonist, David (Colin Farrell), nearing desperation, tries to pick up one of the most ruthless of all his fellow guests.
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Hapilon's branch of ASG is one of the most ruthless militant organizations in this part of the Philippines, and is known for its long history of extremism.
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The game is at its most ruthless when it uses your own time against you, and in order to succeed you have to learn to be efficient.
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MORE befriended and wined and dined the most ruthless African dictators and overlooked their deplorable human rights and corruption records in the name of counter-terrorism cooperation.
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Mr. Samaras said the accusations amounted to the "most ruthless and ridiculous conspiracy ever" and said he would take legal action against Mr. Tsipras and Mr. Papangelopoulos.
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Children in Totutla were not the only ones to be showered with gifts by one of Mexico's most ruthless cartels across the humid, southeastern state of Veracruz.
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The elusive villain seemingly gave one of the Liars' most ruthless enemies a step-by-step guide to their "endgame" plan, but what exactly did the book say?
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Mohammed Hanif KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistan has found a new ally in its never-ending war against India — and he is the public face of our most ruthless killers.
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In responding to a new economic reality, Sturkey says, some of the town's ardent segregationists, despite their most ruthless efforts, inadvertently opened the door to Jim Crow's undoing.
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Bulger, nicknamed "Whitey" for his bright platinum hair, grew up in a gritty South Boston housing project and became known as one of the most ruthless gangsters in Boston.
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What has been striking about McConnell and his colleagues in the House and Senate is that they are willing to use the rules in the most ruthless fashion possible.
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He and his team are up against Washington's most ruthless lobbyist, the title character (Jessica Chastain), who is determined to do whatever it takes to pass gun-control legislation.
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And if you don't know anything else about McConnell, know this: He's arguably the most ruthless political operator in American politics and has almost single-handedly broken the Senate.
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Known as one of Italy's most ruthless politicians, Renzi tamped down media reports that he was drawing up an array of demands in return for keeping the coalition afloat.
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Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN)It was meant as the sequel to rival the original -- another far-flung encounter, laced with backslapping and friendly banter alongside the world's most ruthless dictator.
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Since its inception, however, it has been used to further political agendas of all different stripes, and utilised as a powerful propaganda tool by some of Africa's most ruthless regimes.
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We will inevitably see the most ruthless presidential campaign in American history, with the possibility of public policy and law enforcement being used as political weapons to help the incumbent.
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Bobby Rush (D-IL), who in 2011 called the organization "one of the most vicious, most ruthless organizations ever created by mankind" and compared it to Al Capone and the Mafia.
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"We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president and the people who voted for him and the free system that allowed it to happen in American history," Loesch says.
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From there it was a formality for one of the game's most ruthless front-runners as Federer cruised to victory to keep his bid for a hat-trick of Melbourne titles alive.
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Mnangagwa's return has raised a sense of nervousness in Zimbabwe -- he is alleged to have been behind some of Mugabe's most ruthless policies and to many he represents the oppressive status quo.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%Synopsis: The final installment of the highly-praised trilogy finds Bruce Wayne (Bale) facing off against his most ruthless villain yet: a looming terrorist named Bane (Tom Hardy).
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Amazon might be the most ruthless competitor in the business world today, but would the company be as driven if it were not molded every day by the values of Jeff Bezos?
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Naturally, the idea of praise being given to one of the 20th century's most ruthless dictators caused a stir, and sent House Speaker Paul Ryan, once again, sprinting to distance himself from Trump's comments.
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Even with the player making the most ruthless decisions at the game's "Junction" points, in which we control Paul to determine his own course of action "against" Jack, he never shows malice or evil.
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Quinn (Constance Zimmer) and Rachel (Shiri Appleby), the most ruthless reality TV producers are back for another round of Everlasting, but this time, they're not manipulating the emotions of a group of 20-something women.
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With her inimitable line readings and face-scrunching expressions, Ms. Gordon — who was in her mid-70s when "Where's Poppa?" was made — is one of the most ruthless clowns to ever appear before the camera.
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The three Taliban leaders released are part of the Haqqani network, the most ruthless and bloodthirsty faction of what is now the world&aposs deadliest terror group, according to the IEP&aposs Global Terror Index.
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Mnanagagwa is accused of orchestrating some of Mugabe's most ruthless policies and actions, and there is a sense of nervousness that he could follow Mugabe's lead in using fear to keep his grip on power.
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Losing that work turns out to be enough of a detriment that not even several extremely expensive computers and the world's most ruthless commitment to night shoots can be guaranteed to make up for it.
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Because it will be much easier and cheaper to build the first A.G.I. than to build the first safe A.G.I., the race seems destined to go to whichever company assembles the most ruthless task force.
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But with Mnanagagwa accused of orchestrating some of Mugabe's most ruthless policies and actions, there is a sense of nervousness that he could follow the former leader's use of fear to keep his grip on power.
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It is emblematic of the risks we are all facing in an age of increased state surveillance, when new technology helps the most ruthless governments crack down on citizens who dare to disrupt the status quo.
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But what sets Deadly Class apart is that King's Dominion, its academy for gifted youngsters, is actually a finishing school for the children of the world's most ruthless murderers, warlords, crime syndicates, mafia members, and gangsters.
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It was no coincidence that both front pages -- and the accompanying articles -- portrayed Xi emerging as a new Mao Zedong, the founding father of Communist China but also considered one of the most ruthless leaders in modern history.
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The episode ended with the Mother of Dragons marching away from the scene, ready for war — and fans are taking this to mean that she's gone full "Mad Queen," with her most ruthless impulses poised to take over.
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"The important thing to remember about that line is that his daughter is the thing that's closest to his heart, and protecting that is when he's most ruthless," the 35-year-old Northern Ireland-born actor tells PEOPLE.
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"Karimov is known for being one of the wiliest, most ruthless authoritarian rulers, not only in the post-Soviet space but in the entire world," said Steve Swerdlow, the director of Central Asia research at Human Rights Watch.
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"We are witnesses to the most ruthless attack on a president and the people who voted for him, and the free system that allowed it to happen, in American history," Loesch says at the beginning of the video.
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At least a semblance of legitimacy — especially for a government under Mr. Mnangagwa, who is known as the enforcer of some of Mr. Mugabe's most ruthless policies — will be critical in gaining recognition from regional powers, Western governments and international lenders.
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And while they were incommunicado at sea, Axe had an interview published in which he bad-mouthed Rice's hedge fund, damaging it irrevocably, while Wags led a crack team of Axe Cap's most ruthless traders in systematically destroying whatever remained.
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"He has faced down and defeated the world's most ruthless and deadly enemies, and he has done all that by Mattis's side," said Fran Townsend, Mr. Bush's former homeland security adviser, for whom Mr. Harward worked from 2003 to 2005.
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But the big implication is for Pakistan, which U.S. intelligence knows is providing training and support for the Haqqani network -- the most ruthless and effective faction of the Taliban -- which is active in carrying out attacks on American and Afghan government forces.
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In a press release distributed by the Attorney General's office on January 25, 2009, Meza López was portrayed as one of the most ruthless drug traffickers in the game, and the official description of him suggested he'd be subjected to a severe sentence.
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Afghanistan-based senior correspondent Mujib Mashal said on Twitter that it "omits the most fundamental fact: that [Haqqani] is no Taliban peace-maker as he paints himself, that he's behind some of most ruthless attacks of this war with many civilian lives lost."
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"We need to absolutely obliterate them [...] in the most ruthless manner possible," the alt-right leader had said the day before on his podcast of the former allies he now disparagingly calls the "alt-lite," whose destruction he considers more pressing than any leftist group.
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With that in mind, Trump is convincing in his suggestion that more arms for opposition groups in Syria could end up in the wrong hands, an outcome likely in a multisided, chaotic civil war in which the most ruthless groups have so far been more successful.
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Gigant industrialism in the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc showed its own seams and contradictions; for all the talk of a workers' paradise, the Soviets eventually criminalized absenteeism, tardiness and "quitting without permission," controlling labor in ways that would have made the most ruthless capitalist proud.
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As one of Mr. Mugabe's top lieutenants, he has been accused of spearheading Mr. Mugabe's most ruthless policies — including the massacre of thousands of civilians in the early 1980s, the invasion of white-owned farms in 2000 and the violent rigging of polls during the 2008 election.
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The group is responsible for some of the most ruthless crimes imaginable and the Trump Administration has made it a point to aim to eliminate them Among countless other crimes, MS-13 beat four young men to death with wooden clubs and butchered their bodies with machetes in 2017.
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For years a member of ASG, one of the most ruthless militant organizations in a part of the Philippines known for its long history of extremism, and a friend and brother-in-arms of Hapilon, Abu Jihad is now concerned the militant group's recent successes will embolden further attacks.
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These wretched maps rudely superimpose their lines over the landmarks of my life: On the east are the people I grew to love through the revolution, men, women and children who defied all odds and stood chanting in the face of one of the most ruthless regimes in history.
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" Even the book's most ruthless old-growth exploiter has his moments of epiphany — for instance, when he confides to his lover, "It's strange, isn't it … how one only needs to purchase the land on which such a thing is rooted, before one is permitted to destroy it forever?
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"The piece by Siraj Haqqani in @nytopinion - which's independent of our news operations & judgment - omits the most fundamental fact: that Siraj is no Taliban peace-maker as he paints himself, that he's behind some of most ruthless attacks of this war with many civilian lives lost," he tweeted.
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Throughout Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's reign at the helm of one of Mexico's most ruthless cartels, tunnels have been a mainstay of how the notorious drug kingpin hid out from authorities hot on his trail and built an empire that landed him on Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest moguls.
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This was the true American Dream — not a pipe-dream of becoming billionaires (which even the most ruthless top-down regimes have), but a genuinely achievable prospect of joining our prosperous middle class through personal effort and excellence — a prospect that now is threatened for every American of every color.
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The former Saturday Night Live comedian, elected in 2009, is an effective and studious senator who's earned the respect of his peers—and, lately, the fear of his opponents, as he's been one of the Senate's most ruthless interrogators of Trump nominees and one of his party's most entertaining critics of the president.
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He is the one who bestows nothing but compliments to the world's most ruthless strongmen and dictators, like the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte, Turkey's Recep Erdoğan, Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. It is ironic that Trump, in his fear of losing, is using fear to try and hang on to power.
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Julian Zelizer: Harris shows that she can deliver a punch The Democratic debates are a test of many things, one of which is how each candidate would do taking on President Trump in one of what will certainly be one of the most ruthless, brutal and vicious campaigns that we have seen in many decades.
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But for those willing to go down the rabbit hole, a closer examination of the series — and, particularly, the recent Pocket Camp mobile game — reveals something much more unsettling: a dark mirror that inadvertently reflects some of the most ruthless and dehumanizing elements of modern society, and how they can degrade our social and ethical bonds.
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"I think the secretary of Homeland Security is at the head of the most ruthless, vicious, racist division of the Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE administration," said Gutiérrez.
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As Cave grapples with the mundanity of life in the wake of loss, we see him at his most ruthless as a poet—and, on tracks like "Girl in Amber," his most broken and aged as a vocalist—stripped of his trademark romanticism to reveal something more vital, in the most literal sense of the word: The immediacy and tenuousness of life.
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"She had one of the most ruthless, savvy political minds, she was like a gangster," said Jeremiah Jenne, a historian who leads visitors on walking tours around the Summer Palace, where he points out 500-year-old juniper and cypress trees, and paint-faded pavilions like the Hall of Dispelling Clouds, which was renovated in 1895 for her 60th birthday extravaganza.
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At 62, with a narrow face, gray hair and a close-cropped beard, General Suleimani was known for traveling without body armor or personal protection, collaborating with some of the most ruthless figures in the region while sharing meals with the fighters and telling them to take care of their mothers, according to a Hezbollah field commander who met him in Syria.
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In some ways, the central dynamic is a contrast between brains and brawn: Archer (Mick Ford), an older, quick-witted prisoner, makes a point of stretching the rules as far as bureaucracy will allow, while the newcomer Carlin (a young, barely recognizable Ray Winstone) knows that the way to survive in an environment where even the officials tacitly egg on violence is to be seen as the most ruthless guy there.
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On Twitter — where people tend to be the most ruthless regarding any little thing — the news was met with absolute elation; not only because Jones is a woman of color (a rarity still in the upper echelons of the editorial world), but because her background as editorial director of the books department at The New York Times, and formerly at Time and The Paris Review, meant the magazine would be in the hands of an intelligent woman with intellectual leanings; a woman who would surely bring a new point of view to the world of celebrities and Hollywood.
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