Sentence examples for first purge from inspiring English sources

Within a year, they held their first purge.

In September 1981, she conducted her first purge of non-Thatcherite cabinet ministers, and brought Lawson in as Energy Secretary.

In the early 1950s, when the Chinese army carried out its first purge, Xinran's mother, then in her teens, was relegated to the "Black" class of capitalist descendants.

The anti-Purge movement has begun to get airtime, and its figurehead is a black activist, played by Edwin Hodge, who appeared as a homeless savior in the first "Purge" and then as a resistance fighter in the second.

Castillo survived this first purge; in June, he invited me to his program; during one of the commercial breaks, he told me that he wasn't going to change his style and would maintain his critical and pluralist stance as long as he could.

The pleasures, on the other hand, of "Purgatorio" -- in which Dante and his protective guide, the dead Roman poet Virgil, tour the mountain where souls destined for salvation first purge themselves of sin by means of hard punishments -- seem less viscerally satisfying and have found a narrower audience.

But they cannot attract that capital without first purging their balance sheets of the toxic assets.

When Yeomans first purged Bazaar of the nobs and multi-barrelled names it was not immediately apparent who would replace them.

The calcined catalyst (0.2 g) was first purged in a flow of argon at 140°C to remove traces of water.

Just like the BBM media, the wastewater samples were first purged with nitrogen gas for 3 min to remove absorbed gases prior to inoculation.

It should be noted that, before the experiments, the BBM medium was first purged with nitrogen gas for a duration of 3 min to remove the dissolved gases and ensure that the initial dissolved CO2 concentration is zero.