Sentence examples for extirpate them from inspiring English sources

Included in the Codex Mendoza (begun in 1541) were a tribute list, of great interest to him in the exploitation of the new domain; a summary of cultural ranks and behaviour expected from men and women at different stages of life; and a list of monthly religious observances, all the better to extirpate them.

To be sure, the logic behind the test treatment seemed, initially, unassailable, since it can detect the presence of cancer cells in the prostate gland ten years or more before they become apparent allowing time to extirpate them before they can cause any mischief.

A single man-made or natural catastrophe could be enough to permanently extirpate them.

It was they against whom he was looking for 'an occasion, to extirpate them root and branch'" (Long, 1938, p. 187).

Although he confessed these failings, his best efforts at correction and reconciliation never extirpated them.

Nevertheless the proscription of infinitesimals did not succeed in extirpating them; they were, rather, driven further underground.

In a letter to the people of Toulouse, undoubtedly written at the end of 1146, Bernard calls upon them to extirpate the last remnants of the heresy.

Of more than local importance, however, was their bitter quarrel with the Caetani pope, Boniface VIII, who tried to extirpate the family and drove them into alliance with his enemy, the French king Philip IV the Fair; Sciarra Colonna (d. 1329) led the armed attack on Boniface at Anagni on Sept. 7, 1303.

In addition, he assumed responsibility for assisting the ecclesiastical authorities in the suppression of heresy, a direct consequence of the oath imposed on secular judges, requiring them to investigate and extirpate heresy, a survival of Henry V's anti-Lollard legislation (CWM 6 1, 409; 8:1, 28).

The drafters designed them to be powerful enough to extirpate the corruption that pervades Thai public life, and independent enough to work without interference from crooked politicians and officials.

White supremacist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan among other factions waged a one hundred year war in different parts of the country to decimate and extirpate the legislative advances made to favor Blacks in finally assimilating them into the society at large.