Word: relentlessly
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...teams share the same essential strengths. They eschew boring defensive security for the pleasures of relentless attack. Both exude an irresistible cosmopolitanism. Or rather, Barcelona, founded by a Swiss man, has always exuded cosmopolitanism, and Arsenal learned to do so under the stewardship of Arsčne Wenger, its urbane French manager. Both combine their exciting international style with a heavy dose of localism. Arsenal coupled the Frenchman Thierry Henry and Dutch genius Dennis Bergkamp with an English-dominated back line. Barcelona fields true Catalan heroes such as Carles Puyol...
...relentless bloodshed has sparked a vociferous debate over what do about Brazil's violent criminals and its notoriously corrupt and overcrowded prison system. Hardliners are arguing for a crackdown, while liberals counter that nothing will change unless the government attacks the country's epic social and economic inequality. But the question is not just what to do but how. Roughly a third of all Brazil's prisoners are locked up in Sao Paulo state; between 800 and 1,000 more prisoners are jailed each month and the system is stretched to the breaking point. "We'd need to build...
...Hall of Justice, Arsenal and Barça had, in my mind, joined to battle the game's bad guys - namely, Chelsea and Real Madrid. My teams share the same essential strengths. In recent years, they eschewed cynical formations that emphasized boring defensive security over the pleasures of relentless attack. Both exuded an irresistible cosmopolitanism. Or rather, Barcelona, founded by a Swiss man, had always exuded cosmopolitanism, and Arsenal learned to do so under the stewardship of Arsène Wenger, its urbane French manager. Both combined their exciting international style with a heavy dose of localism. Arsenal coupled...
...credit?This new adaptation pares away the dry bits in an attempt to create a leaner, meaner Shakespeare. Lazarcheck said that an adaptation by Jeremy R. Funke ’04 has made the play both more exciting and more accessible. “The script moves with a relentless violence and retains Shakespeare’s eloquence, but removes the bulk that most modern theatergoers simply can’t stomach,” he says.Pecci summed up the show’s feel succinctly: “Think the Bard of Avon meets Quentin Tarantino...
...Nepal's struggle against its King, now entering its nineteenth day of street protests and violent police reprisals, may be close to a resolution. Late Monday night, Nepal's King finally capitulated to relentless pressure from street protests and agreed to meet a key demand of his nation's pro-democracy movement - thus offering hope for a resolution to the nineteen-day-old political crisis that has ravaged Nepal. Appearing on national TV half an hour before midnight, King Gyanendra offered to reinstate Nepal's parliament, which was dissolved in 2002 - thus meeting an important demand of the pro-democracy...