Word: relentlessly
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...Even if the trial does create a platform for Barghouti to address his propaganda message in Hebrew to an Israeli public made all too aware that his incarceration has done nothing to stop the relentless wave of terror attacks - and also that the open-ended war with the Palestinians has accelerated a disastrous shrinkage of the Israeli economy - it may be some time before he can reap the benefits. Israel's attorney general wouldn't have ordered the trial if he wasn't confident of a conviction. And while prison may restrict Barghouti to a symbolic presence in Palestinian politics...
...such aversion may no longer be possible before France's relentless carnage. In his Bastille Day address on July 14, President Jacques Chirac described himself as "absolutely horrified that France's roads are the most dangerous in Europe" and cited improving safety among his top priorities. Transportation Minister Gilles de Robien has been even more assertive. After warning that "sanctions provided by law shouldn't be limited to threats but must be systematically applied," late last month De Robien and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy deployed nearly 5,000 extra police officers to vacationer-packed freeways and roads and promised...
...look from the 16-story Commission headquarters in Brussels, the bullets are flying fast and furious. Whether from across the Rhine River in Germany, from over the Seine and Paris, across the English Channel from Britain or even from the distance of Rome and Lisbon, the onslaught has been relentless...
...would formalize the principle of collective punishment, and it raised alarm among Israeli human rights groups. But the fact that even dovish foreign minister Shimon Peres appeared to support the principle of exiling the families of bombers revealed the dearth of new ideas on how to deal with the relentless terror onslaught...
...included from Wilson to his third wife, the much-younger novelist Mary McCarthy, are really the meatiest part of the correspondence inspired by that legendary m?salliance), these letters are filled with wonderfully caustic appraisals of everything from Robert Frost ("partly a dreadful old fraud and one of the most relentless self-promoters in the history of American literature") to the Metropolitan Opera house in the newly-constructed Lincoln Center ("a miracle of bad taste and ineptitude"), as well as the financial perils of the freelance life (some of the more amusing letters in the book are Wilson's epistles...