Sentence examples for purges to from inspiring English sources

The elimination contests need such big groups to extend the weekly purges to a full run of 13 weeks.

Proposed treatments ranged from the canonical quack bloodlettings and purges to the smoking of cigars in order to "purify" the atmosphere.

Under Stalin, putting in an appearance at the Bolshoi meant you belonged to the inner circle but, according to one historian of the purges, "to disappear from there was synonymous with a fall from favour and death".

Two months on, what they remember is meaning – 67% of our respondents connected what they had seen to events in their own lives, and 84% to contemporary events, from Korean purges to Plebgate.

But Chhun grew incensed at repression by Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge officer who used force and violent purges to remain in power after losing the 1993 election.

I feel like I would remember reading about it if there had been a 28th Amendment that added purges to the fabric of our political system.

What I needed, I realized, was to purge — to rid myself of all those unnecessary items.

Another president might have conducted a purge to foster greater cohesion among his colleagues.

The two recently started Style for Hire, a personal styling agency that offers services from professional purging to bridal shopping.

The rocket failure had raised conjecture that the North Korean leadership might embark on a purge to assign blame.

As her mother's health deteriorated, she heard girls at her Catholic high school talking about purging to lose weight.