Sentence examples for of a housecleaning from inspiring English sources

Democratic leaders aggressively seized on each indictment of a Republican member of Congress or lobbyist, building an argument that the controlling party had become arrogant and was in urgent need of a housecleaning.

As part of a housecleaning, Colonel Newell dismissed more than 150 soldiers from the Army and brought formal disciplinary charges against more than 10 percent of the brigade's 3,500 troops.

He replaces Jim Caldwell, who was fired after three seasons as part of a housecleaning that also cost Bill and Chris Polian their jobs as the team's top football executives.

One benefit of this merging of Bricks and Clicks is a "housecleaning" of our Laws.

If that's a violation of Yahoo! policy, a housecleaning may be in order.

The 1924 Progressives pledged a "housecleaning" of executive departments, public control of natural resources, public ownership of railways, and tax reduction.

If Mr. Djindjic becomes prime minister, his first priority should be a housecleaning of Milosevic-era functionaries and the prosecution of those implicated in corruption or crime.

But, he said, a housecleaning of the board "bought her a year".

A housecleaning of City Hall staff members opened the door for the mayor's own appointees, who quickly turned it into a revolving door.

UBS accompanied its disclosure with a housecleaning of senior executives and a warning that it would eliminate 1,500 jobs by year-end, most in its investment banking division, the locus of its troubles.

But he also agrees that good forest management thinning overgrown tree stands, or making use of selective fire as a housecleaning tool in the forests may help tamp down a probable upward trend in the severity of fires.Easier said than done.