The Dominican government says the new crackdown is a security matter, aimed at wiping out fraud.
Then came Rip Off Britain, the government crusade aimed at wiping out inflated pricing.
Their remarks raised expectations that the administration was preparing for a wider war aimed at wiping out Isis, rather than stopping its advances in Iraq.
He has been accused of presiding over the killing of 1,771 indigenous Ixils in a "scorched earth" campaign aimed at wiping out support for leftist guerrillas.
Among other things, they want Burundi's Tutsis to apologise for the massacre of 250,000 people in 1972, a slaughter aimed at wiping out the Hutu intelligentsia.Their grievances may be real, but the FNL are thugs.
That seemed to signal a move toward smaller operations aimed at wiping out militant leaders, whose movements are more restricted now that government troops rule most of the province, at least during the day.
It also showed that insurgents retain the ability to strike the country's heartland, far from the Afghan border regions where al-Qaida and the Taliban thrive despite army offensives aimed at wiping them out.
Last week, the group detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple, an act that the UN cultural agency, Unesco, called a war crime aimed at wiping out a symbol of Syria's diverse cultural heritage.
Many development officials and experts in the bank, in Europe and in private sector groups say that because he has thrown himself into the I.D.A. agenda, Mr. Zoellick has been effective at wiping away past animosities and assuaging donors' concerns.
In fact, G.O.P. senators appear to have amendments aimed at wiping out virtually all the cost-cutting the Democrats have put in the bill, including productivity adjustments and incentives for innovation in health care delivery.
