Sotloff's Israeli nationality had been not been revealed in the Israeli media during his captivity, while authorities had reportedly gone to extraordinary lengths to expunge any reference from the internet to his time spent in the country.
Imagine Muslim fundamentalists being invited to research Christian fundamentalism (not the Catholics this time, but American Protestants, more fanatical than ayatollahs, who try to expunge all reference to Darwin from schools).
Online censors were busy trying to expunge any reference to the word "jasmine"; police were rounding up dissidents and even telling florists not to sell the flower.It was a bad moment to provoke the authorities, especially for someone like Mr Cao, who had form.
For those who are grieving, doctors would do better to offer time, compassion, remembrance, and empathy, than pills". The change under consideration would expunge any reference to the passage of time since a loved one's death before a diagnosis of depression could be considered.
Accordingly, the final draft of the AEA platform expunged the reference to laissez-faire economics as being "unsafe in politics and unsound in morals".
The Turkish Ministry of Environment and Forestry was worried, apparently, and earlier this month it changed the Latin names of three animals to expunge "divisive" references to two ethnic minorities--Kurds and Armenians.
It has also at times caused considerable confusion, from Soviet efforts to expunge all references to same-sex attraction and portray him as a heterosexual, to efforts at armchair analysis by Western biographers.
Each surrogate was independently added to and homogenized with samples of Natural Resources Canada Till-1 standard reference material that was initially expunged of organic matter through combustion.
Reference to her has been expunged from all the ceremonies organised by Saint-Exupéry supporters, including the three days of celebrations in Lyon.
According to leaked e-mails, Juan José Daboub, a former conservative finance minister of El Salvador named last year as the bank's managing director, last month ordered that all reference to family planning be expunged from the bank's aid strategy for Madagascar.
