I'm certainly not suggesting that all of the honorees should be purged from Ms. Walters's list.

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He spoke in an exhausted snarl, all redemptive possibility purged from his voice and manner.

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Afghanistan halted new recruitment for its police force, while hundreds of soldiers are purged from the army.

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In Britain (or at least England), the tradition of sectarian enmity was not so much purged from the body politic as mislaid.

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But in the end, when you took Ron out of the equation, it was just another boring sales presentation that hopefully has been purged from the corporate archives.

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The Election Commission has purged 12m surplus names from voter lists.

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And in recent months, operations that they led, based on intelligence they developed, killed two key leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq and purged more than 30 other top terrorists from its ranks.

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