TYCOON Robert Maxwell is at the centre of a ruthless new struggle - with ITV and the BBC racing to screen his life story first.

Three years later his armies had triumphed in a ruthless struggle that cost hundreds of thousands of Spanish lives.

Saki's work contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless but straightforward life-and-death struggles of nature.

But in fact it is a sophisticated, multifaceted, even ruthless struggle to wrest control of a population from cunning and often brutal foes.

It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

They sent their young men east to temper mem in the ruthless struggle for control of the Holy Lands.

According to a Soviet official explaining the goals: A ruthless struggle is going on between the peasantry and our regime.

In various documents we are imposing new duties on our citizens, but when it comes to the allocation of prestigious political positions in our Parliament, there is a ruthless struggle going on.

We fear the recurrence of the political situation of the Cultural Revolution, in which 'ruthless struggle and merciless criticism' were rampant.