Sentence examples for cleansed from inspiring English sources

Officials openly espoused President Franjo Tudjman's notion that, in ethnic terms, "once cleansed" should mean "always cleansed".

Millions of citizens were displaced, neighbourhoods were cleansed along sectarian lines, and an entire population numbed by unchecked brutality.

His sins too were cleansed.

He, if anyone, had cleansed the Balkans of its vilest leader.

Mr Hands decided to pre-empt the inevitable and turn his attention to managing the other companies he owns.In this section Protests and the pump Parsing prices Suspended animation Roll up, roll up Green fleeces, red faces The magical misery tour Vorsprung durch exports ReprintsCiti immediately cleansed EMI's balance-sheet, reducing its debt from £3.4 billion to £1.2 billion.

Local Croats fled, were ethically cleansed or murdered.

They "cleansed" whole streets of Sunnis and summarily killed many of them; took over Sunni mosques; commandeered petrol stations to raise cash; and extorted protection money from businesses.

"The blood of those young students cleansed my brain of all the lies I had accepted over the previous decades".

The term derives from Dr Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), a British editor, whose Family Shakespeare was cleansed of "those expressions which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family".

As Europe is cleansed of Muslims, Albania is designated by Mr Breivik as the official "transit zone for the Balkans".

In 1995 Croatia retook most of the territory, and some 230,000 Serbs fled or were ethnically cleansed.