It was a herculean task to eradicate the parasitic mistletoe, involving cherry-pickers, loppers, a dozen people and two seasons of work, made all the tougher because the Australian mistletoe mimics the trees it takes root on.
Her task is to eradicate the evil monsters and the source of their production, a "silver star" that has crashed to Earth.
Maria Miller, the minister for women and equalities, set up a ministerial task force designed to eradicate sexism at work and announced a guide for parents on how to bring up their daughters to be "ambitious for themselves".
The defence ministry and other entities which fight narcotics trafficking will be tasked with recommending other ways to eradicate illegal plants, the minister added, including possibly increasing the amount of it manually uprooted.
He is best known for his efforts on behalf of the United Nations to eradicate smallpox (a video describing that task, and his plan to spot other pandemics, is available here).
Bill Gates has given a lecture in London in which he described the battle to eradicate polio as one of the most difficult tasks the world has ever faced.
A cabinet task force reported on Thursday that the government's plan to eradicate the worst of the banks' bad debts would destroy 602,000 jobs, and 20 to 30percentt of those workers would not find new work.
The mayor vowed to eradicate it, forming the first anti-graffiti task force, and making the act a crime.
If he makes the most of it, and demonstrates a sincere, long-term commitment to the task, then it may prove to be a tipping point in our campaign to eradicate dogfighting".
Two years ago, Attorney General Janet Reno chartered an interagency task force, saying, "We are not interested in containing modern-day slavery; we want to eradicate it".
"We need to eradicate poverty before we can talk about eradicating child labor".
