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ruthlessly

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in a ruthless manner

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Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. Daniel De Leon

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. Christopher Hitchens

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards. Vladimir Lenin

If evolution is a struggle for survival, why hasn't it ruthlessly eliminated altruists, who seem to increase another's prospects of survival at the cost of their own? Peter Singer

It was as if he were watching a tall stranger with a wand pointing to the embarrassed phantom that was himself, and ruthlessly exposing its frailties! And yet that pitiless showman was himself too - himself as he wanted to be, cheerful, brave, resourceful, indomitable. John Buchan

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrates democratic process. John Kenneth Galbraith

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