Sentence examples for vast purge from inspiring English sources

Ties between Turkey and Austria have strained after a number of Austrian politicians spoke out against Turkey's longstanding bid to join the EU, particularly after the vast purge that followed the coup bid.

A vast purge of members of Saddam's ubiquitous Baath party, combined with the empowerment of parvenu politicians who packed ministerial fiefs with loyalists under an American-endorsed system of sectarian spoils, further stripped state institutions of competence.Such follies are fairly well known.

Anticipating that the preponderant majority of America's voters would reject their party this year, Republican officials ordered vast purges of voting rolls deleting 19% of the registered voters in battleground states.

This was after 20 years of vast and savage purges, culminating less than 30 months earlier in "the night of the murdered poets".

After one of the worst years in its history, the container-shipping industry is poised for vast rounds of purging and consolidation, with major players taking advantage of the tough environment to grab more market share.

Even as sites like YouTube, Dailymotion and Veoh have purged the vast majority of their infringing content in recent years, Asian user-generated video sites like 56.com, Tudou, Youku, Ku6.com and Megavideo have become frustrating black holes for intellectual property.

This confirms that natural selection purges the vast majority of nonsynonymous mutations in the genome (Rocha et al. 2006).

The random nature of T-cell receptor (TCR) generation inevitably leads to the appearance of deleterious autoreactive clones, but the vast majority of such cells are purged in the thymus during negative selection.

Lower level staff "fucked up", Crane said Shelley told him: they had shredded the documents in a supposedly routine purge of the IG's vast stores of confidential material.

But it is reminiscent of an earlier incident in which the White House ordered the government's vast counter-terrorism apparatus to find and purge inflammatory training material, particularly that which singled out Muslims for particular scrutiny.

Nor can the government purge workplaces of illegal workers without doing vast damage to the economy.