Sentence examples for having been rid of from inspiring English sources

A pro-democracy movement is already stirring, and bigger protests are likely after the junta lifts its restriction on political gatherings.Another danger, from the opposite direction, is that having been rid of an autocratic and allegedly corrupt machine-politician, many Thais will swallow the idea that their country would be better off without politicians altogether.

G.M. could have been rid of Opel by now.

By the end of the Western, the town has been rid of its villains, but by dint of a kind of violence that it can't then accommodate.

Ukraine, where a bloody conflict between government forces and pro-Russian separatists has been raging in the east since April 2014, has been rid of wild polio virus since 1996.

Mayfly experts do not keep comprehensive records of insect swarms, and they do not contend that the nation's great rivers and lakes have been rid of contaminants.

And Blagojevich would have been rid of those meddlesome scribes -- a politician's dream come true.

If any amount of desire, guilt or shame were sufficient to drive sustained change, we'd have been rid of the so-called lifestyle diseases decades ago.

Welcome to the brand new "Nashville," where Juliette's act is not the only thing that has been rid of its "bubble gum and glitter".

But now, with the biggest boxing match of his life less than a month away, the area near the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Vine Street has been rid of many of the hangers-on and sycophants who made being with Manny their main occupation.

He'd have gladly been rid of Feinstein a long time ago.

Have I really been rid of it, or is it there but dormant?