Sentence examples for were purged of from inspiring English sources

At the same time, hundreds of monasteries were purged of monks.

Both Eastern and Western Armenian were purged of "Muslim" words (Arabic, Persian, and Turkish loanwords), which were replaced by words taken from Grabar.

Publications of his works were purged of the material that constituted a menace to the system of serfdom, particularly that concerned with materialist and humanist ideas.

After his remarks, Internet chat rooms and Web sites were purged of dissenting views, the site of the explosion was bulldozed, and surviving students and parents of those who died in the blast were told to keep quiet.

And materials for the third review were purged of language, he added, that would have required the winning agency to pay for the defense of the commission and the State of California against any further protests or lawsuits stemming from another decision.

Radio station staffs were purged of leftists and others deemed undesirable by July 1933.

And the political elite is being purged of "unreliable elements".

"I am purged of my ghosts," he writes.

The Interior Ministry has been purged of corrupt officials and of many suspected of torture and brutality.

The new Congress, too, cannot be purged of every trace of bipartisanship.

Gove was naïve to imagine that the dictionary could be purged of all subjective value judgments.