Word: relentlessness
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...been exacting high tolls from every segment of Iraq's combustible society. Last Tuesday was the deadliest day for Shi'ites since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. It followed February bombings that killed more than 100 Kurds celebrating the Muslim feast of 'Id al-Adha. And the relentless parade of assaults on Iraqi police and other security forces who are supposed to take over safeguarding the nation has caused more than 600 deaths since the beginning of the U.S.-led occupation...
...Russian counterpart and "gotten a sense of his soul," deciding that Putin was a man he could trust. But for many other Western commentators from all ends of the ideological spectrum, Putin is more akin to a risen ghost from Russia's nasty past. His government's relentless campaign to squelch political opposition and silence independent media; its hounding of the "oligarch" business tycoons whose control over vast swathes of the economy create a potential alternative power center; and the clumsy brutality of his campaign against Chechen separatism fuel concerns that post-communist Russia is being turned, once again, into...
...actually put into words what he has done, I mean compared to what anyone else has done at Harvard or even in the nation, he’s up there at the top,” Lee said. “The kid is relentless...
While the Crimson went only 1-for-9 on the afternoon on the man-advantage, that meager percentage was enough to reward a relentless offensive attack by Harvard—and erase an all-star effort by Love...
...film's true shock lies in Gibson's vision of what is most important in the Jesus story, in the relentless, near pornographic feast of flayed flesh. Gibson gives us Christ's blood, not in a Communion cup, but by the gallon. Blood spraying from Jesus' shackled body; blood sluicing to the Cross's foot. This Passion begins just before Jesus' arrest. It ends with a blink-length Resurrection. The bulk of his ministry, miracles and post-Resurrection appearances are absent, and his preaching of love flicked at in telegraphically brief flashbacks. Meanwhile, his scourging, handled in all four Gospels...