"Looking at last season when we were marginally losing games and when the performances were there, but maybe we didn't finish our chances, we have now eradicated that now and improved".
Back in Tarsus, the home of Christianity's greatest missionary, the faith Paul once proclaimed has now been eradicated.
Tsipras, whose popularity has plummeted as a result of enforcing measures he once promised to eradicate, has now made debt relief a priority.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, set up in 1988 by Rotary International, the World Health Organisation (WHO), Unicef and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDCC), has now almost managed to eradicate the disease.
No wonder George Osborne casually announced that the central aim of his fiscal policy since 2010 – eradicating the deficit – has now been indefinitely postponed, thereby breaking what had been the defining commitment of the Tories' manifesto at the last election, back in the Paleolithic era known as 2015.
Aedes aegypti, eradicated from Argentina in 1963, has now reinfested the country as far south as Buenos Aires.
It was thought that the disease had been eradicated 15 years ago, but it has now spread to 14 states and infected over 100 people.
It is ironic that the outcome intended by the two programmes to eradicate X. laevis in the UK has now occurred through natural causes.
The drive to eradicate every vestige of smallpox, even its causative agent, has now been derailed by two considerations.
Ae. aegypti was partially eradicated from tropical America in the 1940s and 1950s, but peridomestic Ae. aegypti aegypti has now reinfested most of the neotropics (12 ).
