Sentence examples for be able to rid from inspiring English sources

They wished to avoid an image of which they would never entirely be able to rid themselves.

"Only by pressuring all of these groups on both sides of the border will Afghanistan and Pakistan be able to rid themselves of this scourge for good".

He wasn't too confident that he'd be able to rid me of the discomfort in my coccyx but was adamant that he could make a difference to other back pain I felt.

But thanks to the lower-than-expected offering price, Lucent will not be able to rid itself of a similar amount of debt it planned to shed through a complicated arrangement with its underwriter, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues.

You might also be able to rid yourself of tax debts in bankruptcy court (see box).

When he remembered this fact, however, he was able to rid himself of his passion.

The Minister's offices, like much of the government, had been flattened; seeing this chaos on the news, even the Minister had not been able to rid himself of the childish notion that it had been stomped into the ground.

By giving the cattle a single injection of a chemical that kills parasites and carrying out regular insecticide spraying to prevent re-infection, the scientists were able to rid the livestock of the disease.

In the three months since the US Department of State revealed that hackers had attacked its unclassified email network, the government has not been able to rid itself of the hackers and it does not know how much information has been stolen.

The wipeout in 2008 had a silver lining: I was able to rid myself of the lower-performing people and rebuild our capacity with a combination of skilled people and machines that actually produced positive cash flow.