Sentence examples for task to rid from inspiring English sources

Increasingly, we realise that Axl and Beatrice's quest to find their son has been wrapped within a more urgent task – to rid the land of its forgetful mist, to slay the dragon Querig.

Gore backers do not deny a connection between Mr. Gore's vulnerabilities and the campaign's long-term task -- to rid Mr. Gore of his calculating air.

Bailey's task is to rid the company of aesthetic clutter.

Baker's invocation address, called "Bigger Than a Hamburger," set the tone for the organization: its task was "to rid America of the scourge of racial segregation and discrimination not only at lunch counters but in every aspect of life".

Baker's invocation address, called "Bigger Than a Hamburger," set the tone for the organization: its task was "to rid America of the scourge of racial segregation and discrimination — not only at lunch counters but in every aspect of life".

Fortunately, the rather embarrassingly characterised Sultan of Baghdad is excised from David Wood's adaptation, though the assembly of a joint British-Swedish task force to rid the world of carnivorous giants is deftly handled.

Like the country itself, Chinese sport is riddled with corruption, and fans are not inhibited in suggesting ways of tackling it.On September 30th the police and the China Football Association CFAannouncedced the formation of a task-force to rid football of the illegal gambling that has fuelled rampant match-fixing by corrupt players and referees.

The 11 heroin overdoses came days after the Orange County Heroin Task Force pledged to rid the streets of an extremely dangerous resurgence of the street drug.

In the year since a task force began work to rid the city of graffiti, more than 16.3 million square feet of surfaces have been cleaned at more than 6,241 sites, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday.

The task force has campaigned relentlessly to rid north Idaho of its reputation as a haven for anti-government extremists.

Its task, to get rid of ivory stocks across the country, is a daunting one.