He was known to be ruthlessly efficient, but somewhat of a showman.
All opposition was ruthlessly suppressed by the Cheka, or political police.
He sold SoftKey in 1999 after ruthlessly buying out all of his competitors.
It thus became the work of economic science ruthlessly to analyse the existing situation, explain the issues involved in the commercial policy of different countries, and point out the alternative methods of dealing with present difficulties, with their probable results.
Only when brute force in its extremest form had been ruthlessly employed, only when three senators and some deputies had been arrested in full session by Russian grenadiers and sent as prisoners to Kaluga, did the opposition collapse.
