How do you prevent a company that charges fair prices and looks after its workers from being bankrupted by a ruthless rival, unless there is a way of insisting that the rival becomes less ruthless?
Lendl, so famously ruthless as a player, coached a more aggressive style along with improved consistency.
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But Australia were ruthless as a Billy Slater hat-trick and Brett Morris, Jarryd Hayne and Cameron Smith touchdowns secured a comfortable win.
Russia has relied on Kadyrov, a ruthless former rebel, to bring a degree of stability to Chechnya in recent years.
The 1928 Italian Renaissance style hotel, now part of the Four Seasons, has a big role in 1990's "Pretty Woman, " starring Richard Gere as a ruthless businessman and Julia Roberts as a prostitute who softens his heart.
"It's nice of Roger to say that, " said the unassuming and rather shy Nadal, who transforms into a ruthless terminator once the action begins on a tennis court.
Her serve is like something out of a Michael Bay movie and her returns have the ruthless accuracy of a NSA drone strike.
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Life is a ruthless struggle in which there are many losers, but it takes place within a framework of unbendable and fair-minded rules.
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Yet the man who has made a name for himself as a ruthless cost-cutter and daring deal maker now seems to be behaving like a quixotic dreamer.
Joaquin Villalobos, once a ruthless guerrilla leader, returned to politics in El Salvador (and later, with a British scholarship, to Oxford to study international affairs).
It was a ruthless performance from United but the reality was they barely had to break sweat to beat a Pompey side in freefall.
Their standard short, specialised degrees suit only the well prepared: in three years there is no time for a ruthless weeding-out after one year, as is common elsewhere in Europe, or for a broad education before choosing a major subject, as in America.
It would be story-lite but lore-heavy with a ruthless focus on tough, straightforward Jedi combat.
"This team is playing with a ruthless defensive efficiency, combined with traditional Welsh attacking flair, " he said.
Mrs Gandhi was a ruthless centraliser of power who eroded many of the independent institutions her father had created.
Although charming, Mr Ospel, say many, is a ruthless boss who discards people once they have served his purposes.
The less charitable view is that Mr Mbeki is a ruthless political operator.
Mr George was an inadequate loner, they argued, not a ruthless killer.
Gelb is notorious among colleagues for his work habits, which involve pre-dawn e-mail sessions and a ruthless efficiency with time.
Of course, the majority of caregivers are not ruthless, but a significant percentage of financial abuse is committed by caregivers.
But there are some who now question whether urban Britain's US-style gangsters require US-style cops with pistols and a ruthless nature.
Amazon is thought to be a ruthless negotiator, squeezing its partners for more efficiency and to help maintain its razor-thin profit margin.
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Francisco Franco, who waged a ruthless campaign to suppress Basque language and culture, centred in several provinces in northern Spain and southern France.
In the film aptly named Wall Street, Michael Douglas played a ruthless buyout kingpoin who traded his way to obscene wealth using inside information.
Its primary objective has moved beyond conducting turf wars inside jails or propagating racist ideology, however, into running a ruthless Mafia-style organised crime network.
Portugal led 1-0 against North Korea at half time but a ruthless attacking display in the second half proved too much for their opponents.
Once the race began, he was a ruthless competitor (some preferred the term "dirty") who never seemed to go at less than his upper limit.
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Spacey plays a ruthless Congressman in current day Washington DC.
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Though a genius of extraordinary dimension, Bonaparte was a ruthless opportunist.
It was a ruthless system - three children rejected for every one that got through, but once you were in, you were encouraged to aim high.
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