Commanders worked hard to reverse anti-American sentiment caused by a seemingly callous U.S. attitude toward civilian deaths and injuries.
But it is a measure of how little inclined the leadership is to trust the market's callous hand operating through such things as mergers, sales and, especially, bankruptcies.
In January, when his government was under pressure over the army's callous treatment of ethnic-Rohingya boat people, originally from Myanmar, Abhisit Vejjajiva, the prime minister, told journalists that the illegal-immigrant problem had to be solved.
But sorry what's happening with the Denver Broncos is a little callous, even if it's just business.
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The president, also a Sinhalese nationalist, with a fervent following among the country's orange-robed right-wing Buddhist clergy, played the war's endgame with a callous disregard for Tamil lives.
Finished off as it was by the callous executive order of a U.S. president, the gold standard cannot be resurrected the same way.
Japanese renewables firms' foreign rivals know it would be hard to object to such subsidies without seeming callous, given the scale of Japan's post-quake crisis.
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The closest thing to a knife fight has been Mr Gingrich's portrayal of Mr Romney as a callous wrecker of humble livelihoods.
And we are particularly appalled and outraged at the latest callous attempts by the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives to harshly criminalize 12 million of those among us who are in this country maybe without papers, but who are the ones, are law-abiding, tax-paying, hard-working members of this community, contributing to the wealth and well-being of this country.
Until a decade ago America's medical profession had indeed been laggard and callous in providing pain relief to patients.
An important element in the fight against this pernicious, callous enemy is a campaign to undermine the ideology's appeal within Muslim communities everywhere.
Simpson's did the U.S. Most Taiwan people see Chen as a callous thug who deserves the death sentence.
And in one especially callous episode, Jobs refused to give founding stock options to one of Apple's earliest employees, even after a fellow employee intervened and offered to match whatever Jobs was willing to spare.
The prestige of getting to the top of Everest can sometimes blur a climber's moral judgement, leading to acts of single-mindedness that border on the downright callous.
But the Obama campaign's hatchet men are much vaguer and more sweeping, painting a picture of Mr Romney as a callous asset-stripper a claim for which there is little evidence.
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