Voorbeelden van cut-throat

• Market behaviour, which may be unabashedly cut-throat, fosters very different interpersonal values.

• Cartelists were also injured by cut-throat low-wage/ low-price competition associated with deflation and unemployment.

• Queenly adulation certainly doesn't focus on these women for their professionalism, their ability to make a place for themselves in a cut-throat business world.

• We remember what took place in the years between the wars when cut-throat competition brought about dire economic circumstances in both industries.

• The one thing known by anyone who buys petrol for his car is that there is cut-throat competition amongst garages on the petrol distribution side.

• The deregulation of financial services led to cut-throat competition between the building societies and the new lenders who moved into the housing market.

• To-day it is not a question of cut-throat competition between collieries at home for sales and profits.

• Everyone admits that cut-throat competition, like war, is merely ruining civilisation.