Sentence examples for were cleansed of from inspiring English sources

Once banks' balance sheets were cleansed of toxic assets, the theory went, they would be able to tap fresh capital.

Tens of thousands were killed by Serbian forces in the Bosnian war of 1992-95 as wide swaths of the country were "cleansed" of their Muslim population.

Tens of thousands of people were killed by Serbian forces in the Bosnian war of 1992-95 as wide areas of the country were "cleansed" of their Muslim population.

Such methods would be consistent with those used by Serbian military and paramilitary forces during the Bosnian war of 1992-95, wide wide areas of Bosnia were "cleansed" of Muslims through eviction and selective killing.

Well, what would we think of a prettified series about British colonialism, whose heroes were cleansed of racism, violence, oppression or imperial snobbery?

Admittedly, the stables that were cleansed of Big Brother subsequently held the stench of the snobbish gawk-show Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and the crassly named (though editorially defensible) documentary about disabled single people The Undateables; two shows on which the new C4 chief executive, Jay Hunt, was pressed at the Edinburgh International Television Festival this year.

Erdoğan said the operations would continue until the area was "cleansed" of the militants and their barricades and trenches destroyed.

The Ottoman Arabic script was replaced by a Latin alphabet, and the language itself was "cleansed" of Arabic and Persian elements.

In an interview last month, Sharma said India should be "cleansed" of "polluting" western influences so as to restore "Indian culture".

Yes, every single one of those women was cleansed of body insecurities merely from the warm acceptance of bemused shoppers staring with one hand in a bag of Greggs Steak Bakes.

But, according to Yang, it was not until the killings of unarmed protesters near Tiananmen Square, in 1989, that he was cleansed "of all the lies I had accepted over the previous decades".