Serb forces needed it desperately, and stormed into the city, expelling Bosniaks and detaining hundreds in brutal camps.
It has been battle-hardened troops from desert neighbours Chad, and to a lesser extent neighbouring Niger, that have taken the lead in expelling Boko Haram from the major towns in the north in just a matter of weeks.
On the right, there have been calls to punish youths whose behaviour shows they are not willing to integrate by expelling them from school or even sending them to a "taster jail".
So there were never enough women to go around, and Mr Jeffs started expelling adolescent boys for minor offences.
The Bush administration has responded in kind, expelling the Bolivian and Venezuelan ambassadors to Washington and urging United States citizens to leave Bolivia.Mr Chávez has repeatedly said he would not stand idly by if Mr Morales were threatened by the opposition.
He recently quoted Mrs Merkel as saying that Germany was about to put in place a policy of expelling gypsies just like France's, which drew a sharp denial from the chancellery.
"Russophobia," snarled Russia's ministry of foreign affairs.On July 19th Russia retaliated by expelling four diplomats from Moscow.
After much dawdling, he put an end to the long-standing policy of expelling openly gay soldiers from the armed forces, expressed personal support for gay marriage and told government lawyers not to fight court challenges to a law barring the federal government from recognising gay marriages.
The Declaration of the Rights of the Child makes expelling foreign criminals with offspring in Britain tricky.
Mr Cabello, who has faced corruption claims (which he denies), runs the Assembly by dictatorial whim, illegally expelling opposition representatives and denying others speaking rights.
Members of the Munduruku tribe in Pará state in Brazil have grown so frustrated by inaction on the part of the federal government that they are now hunting and expelling wildcat miners from their territory.The environmental impact can be devastating, too.
