Sentence examples for stage a purge from inspiring English sources

Need to stage a purge?

Officials say they are in the early stages of a purge: lie detector tests and drug-testing are to become mandatory throughout the force.

Foreshadowing a struggle to succeed the 80-year-old president, Robert G. Mugabe, in 2008, the governing ZANU-PF party staged a minor purge, suspending six senior officials and severely reprimanding the information minister for a secret meeting to plot political strategy in a vice presidential contest.

At a news conference tonight, Mr. Fox said he had assured President Zedillo that he did not intend to carry out a purge of the government bureaucracy, at least in the first stage of his new administration.

For example, [2] tested the effect of surgeon supply in 22 metropolitan areas over three years by using a two stage regression to purge the number of surgeons in the demand equation from unobservable variables omitted from the equation.

It's not a purge".

It was a purge, really".

Critics denounced his actions as a "purge".

Nathan said it was a purge, a cleanse.

That year, Stalin began a purge of intellectuals.

Hardliners want a purge of "counter-revolutionary" opportunists.