Bud Corliss is a young man with a ruthless drive to rise above his working-class origins to a life of wealth and importance.

Both of these women, in their disparate fields, are powerful personages who hide their ruthless drive for personal power behind a carefully constructed facade.

The dream of leading the space mission faded as she devoted her blazing energies and ruthless drive to the task she had set for herself.

In a few short months Rommel's ruthless drive had changed the whole picture.

The thing he had worried about, his lack of ruthless drive, that was part of it.

A thing of impatience and bluster, quick action and ruthless drive.

But beneath those skin-deep qualities she had the ruthless drive and calculated intelligence of a sainted Mike Wallace.

As usual, we are discovering that subsidiarity and pluralism only exist in grand speeches, while the reality is a ruthless drive towards harmonisation.

This situation was to change during the Soviet period when the Moscow government began a ruthless drive for national self-sufficiency in cotton.

This ruthless drive to cut fat has clearly reshaped the practices of both businesses that have worked with Wal-Mart and those that compete against it.