Another early example of a cryptic depiction is in Bertolt Brecht's 1941 play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in which Hitler, in the persona of the principal character Arturo Ui, a Chicago racketeer in the cauliflower trade, is ruthlessly satirised.

He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity.

The 16th century proved to be disastrous for the city as the Spanish rulers ruthlessly repressed any desire for autonomy in the Low Countries, both political and religious.

The theory of value-judgments is part too of his ultra-practical tendency: both " metaphysic " and " mysticism " are ruthlessly condemned.

Their approach to the material was characteristically sarcastic and self-referential, with both comedians ruthlessly deriding their own their classic routines even down to points of language and grammar – despite Rich insisting that " You can't question the text!

First seen in Exiles # 5, they are a team that complete missions more ruthlessly than those of the Exiles.

No longer knowing whom he can trust, Absalom ruthlessly hunts down those loyal to David.

Seleucus, who had been " Commander-in-Chief of the camp " under Perdiccas since 323 BC but helped to assassinate him later, received Babylonia, and from that point continued to expand his dominions ruthlessly.

He ruthlessly suppressed pirates who had long plagued Chinese and southeast Asian waters.

Treachery was everywhere as henchmen were ruthlessly killed by their bosses, who were in turn betrayed by jilted girlfriends.

Their work as lawmen was not welcomed by the outlaw Cowboy elements who viewed the Earps as badge-toting tyrants who ruthlessly enforced the business interests of the town.

MacGruder ( who was killed by Taft by throwing him in the helicopter's propeller for killing Hugh and Silook ), Otto ( who was killed earlier at Hugh's cabin ) and Jennings ’ ruthlessly efficient female assistant Liles ( who crashed her truck on a gasoline tank ), are powerless to stop him and are all killed in various gruesome ways.

Life has become miserable for the citizens of Algol, and Lassic's robotcops ruthlessly kill anyone who opposes him.

In spite of that, he had a great deal of sympathy for their " being robbed of their lands and pushed ruthlessly back into narrower and narrower limits by alien races who were cutting off their means of livelihood.

Any female student who comes to live with, rather than work for, them is ruthlessly made to baby-sit and perform domestic chores.

The novel was an inspiration to many later Russian revolutionaries, who sought to emulate the novel's hero Rakhmetov, who was wholly dedicated to the revolution, ascetic in his habits and ruthlessly disciplined, to the point of sleeping on a bed of nails and eating only raw steak in order to build strength for the Revolution.

Joab is, Magonet notes, a kingmaker who despatches ruthlessly his own military rivals, Abner and Amasa.

The Mexican army fired ruthlessly at the unarmed students as well as many other people who let the students take shelter inside their homes.

: In future, all terror and sabotage troops of the British and their accomplices, who do not act like soldiers but rather like bandits, will be treated as such by the German troops and will be ruthlessly eliminated in battle, wherever they appear.

In reply to a MRAP's statement, she claimed that " the Norwegian slaughter was the work of a lone lunatic who must be ruthlessly punished ".

Smoking Man often ruthlessly protects the secrets of the conspiracy, and serves as the main antagonist to Mulder, who has an equally consuming devotion to reveal the truth in the first seven seasons.

Appearances were deceiving, however, and it was apparent the planet was run by power-hungry politicians who had ruthlessly subjugated the Daemonites as second-class citizens.

" In 1974, Erich Honecker, as Chairman of the GDR's National Defence Council, ordered: " Firearms are to be ruthlessly used in the event of attempts to break through the border, and the comrades who have successfully used their firearms are to be commended.

As there was no longer an effective military force in the province, a substantial one was sent from Gaul under Count Theodosius, who quickly and ruthlessly restored order.

Under the Roman Emperor Diocletian, who ruthlessly persecuted Christians, Bishop Nicholas suffered for his faith, was exiled and imprisoned.

Despite their new status as foederati, Burgundian raids into Roman upper Gallia Belgica became intolerable and were ruthlessly brought to an end in 436, when the Roman general Flavius Aetius called in Hun mercenaries who overwhelmed the Rhineland kingdom ( with its capital at the old Celtic Roman settlement of Borbetomagus, now called Worms ) in 437.

In 282 BC Phintias of Agrigento, who had founded a city next to the modern Licata, destroyed ruthlessly Gela to crush forever its power.

As the Reds had murdered some 1, 100 people in their zone of control ( the so-called Red terror ), the Whites retaliated ruthlessly, executing some 7, 370 people after the recapture of the Red areas ( the so-called White terror ).

", sporting a " Hitler moustache "), being " ruthlessly efficient " and having no sense of humour in some parts of American media, as well as in the UK and other countries.

Famously used by the " Mirror Universe " version of Star Trek character Spock, in the episode " Mirror, Mirror ", it was an easy way for audiences to tell " good " Spock from " evil " Spock ( though in truth the character, while more ruthlessly logical than his counterpart, is far from evil ).

Dewey ruthlessly pressed Luciano on his long arrest record and his relationships with well-known gangsters such as Ciro Terranova, Louis Buchalter, and Joseph Masseria.

" His use of malapropisms is also lampooned ruthlessly, such as when he says, " My fellow Abbytitmuses, this is your Steradent speaking ..."

* Dinkle, The UnLovable Loser is a parody of such characters as Ziggy or The Born Loser, with the catch being that his status as a loser is completely justified because he is truly un-lovable ; he is narcisstic and typically exhibits obnoxious attitudes, such as anti-Semitism, and sociopathic behaviour, ruthlessly exploiting everyone he encounters.

In general, he believes that people have learned to be ignorant of nature ’ s fragility and beauty ; we destroy it ruthlessly and effectively in our quest for more cities and bigger economies: “ Wilderness preservations like a hundred other good causes will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure, or a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment, for my own part I would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war then live in such a world ” ( 65 ).

In the book, Chomsky explores the idea that the US is the only remaining world superpower that works to maintain its dominance, even ruthlessly employing violence such as outright invasions and overthowing governments pursuing independent economic policies.

Speaking with Trefusis, the somewhat meek man admits that during his nine years employment, he was ruthlessly bullied by Sir Reuben.

He punishes his students ruthlessly and gives no special treatment to his son Thomas, who is also a student in his class.

tree branches snapped as she pushed them ruthlessly away from her.

Books were ruthlessly abridged and degraded to accommodate a shorter attention span.

Rommel had driven them forward ruthlessly, being confident that, provided he struck quickly before Eighth Army had time to settle, his momentum would take him through the Alamein position and he could then advance to the Nile with little further opposition.

In any state of society where crime can be profitable you have got to have a harsh criminal law and administer it ruthlessly.

The Gestapo cracked down ruthlessly on the dissidents in Germany, just as they did everywhere else.

On July 27, 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion in China, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany gave the order to act ruthlessly towards the rebels: " Mercy will not be shown, prisoners will not be taken.

He strengthened the position of the monarch to an unprecedented degree, as he ruthlessly subordinated the nobles to his will, exiling or executing many on the slightest provocation.

" the rebels threatened to take Moscow before they were ruthlessly suppressed.

They were ruthlessly crushed by the loyalist forces spearheaded by the Iraqi Republican Guard and the population was successfully terrorized.

U. S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ( R-FL ) said that the report " underscores the need for democratic change in Burma, whose military regime arbitrarily arrests, tortures, rapes and executes its own people, ruthlessly persecutes ethnic minorities, and bizarrely builds itself a new capital city while failing to address the increasingly urgent challenges of refugee flows, illicit narcotics and human trafficking, and the spread of HIV / AIDS and other communicable diseases.

The rebellion, known as the Pilgrimage of Grace, was ruthlessly suppressed.

Instead of heading to London from her residence at Hunsdon, Mary fled into East Anglia, where she owned extensive estates and Dudley had ruthlessly put down Kett's Rebellion.

As he described it, " The guide virtually ignored hip-hop and ruthlessly panned heavy metal, the two genres that within a few years would dominate the pop charts.

Through his ruthlessly raw approach, Koolhaas hopes to extract the architect from the anxiety of a dead profession and resurrect a contemporary interpretation of the sublime, however fleeting it may be.

The Situationists were ruthlessly critical of Stalin and the Soviet Union, which they regarded as an oppressive undemocratic bureaucracy that was just as freedom-deprived as capitalist society, if not more so.

Uprisings erupted in the Kurdish north and Shi ' a southern and central parts of Iraq, but were ruthlessly repressed.

When Nick, with Paul's help, escapes with even more powerful codes than before, he is ruthlessly cast aside, not least because his superiors refuse to accept that the new codes must be disabled so soon after replacing the old ones.

It chronicles the rise of Arturo Ui, a fictional 1930s Chicago mobster, and his attempts to control the cauliflower racket by ruthlessly disposing of the opposition.

When the two armies had fought to a stalemate, the two generals ruthlessly took three days to reach a truce, so that the dead and dying could be removed from the battlefield.

The Cheka received a large number of resources, and became known for ruthlessly pursuing any perceived counterrevolutionary elements.