6 sentences with 'ruthless'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ruthless and other words derived from it.
• « Julius Caesar was both a ruthless fighter, who massacred entire villages and enslaved hundreds of thousands of Celts (killing or enslaving over a million people in the end), and a gifted writer who wrote his own accounts of his wars in excellent Latin prose. »
• « A murderous leader named Basil I, originally from Macedonia, took the throne in 867 and initiated a line of ruthless but competent leaders who ruled for some two hundred years. »
• « Likewise, anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jews as greedy and ruthless arose from the simple fact that trading in money and lending money was one of the only professions Jews were allowed to engage in in most medieval kingdoms and cities. »
• « The ruthless corollary was that, when the sultan died, his sons would compete to win court and military command, and that the winner would have his brothers killed to eliminate his rivals and consolidate power. »
• « As hostility between England and Spain grew, Elizabeth's government sponsored privateers - pirates working for the English crown - led by a skilled and ruthless captain named Sir Francis Drake. »
• « The main state office was called the Directorate General of Finance, War and Royal Estates; it was perhaps one of the original sources of stereotypes of ruthless German efficiency. »