Purges in a sentence

It may merely be routine questioning rather than an arrest, but there is a sense that purges could be on the way.

North Korea monitoring groups say they have not reported any purges or dismissals of scientists or others involved in the failed launch.

Sure, I'd done several purges over the years, dividing some products between friends and throwing old ones in the trash.

All the major social network platforms would end up deciding to purge their platforms of suspected fake pages and profiles, but the way the purges were executed impacted many real accounts.

And a spate of purges of senior officials over the past year—some of them former Xi proteges—has fueled speculation that his position in the party isn’t as secure as it appears.

North Carolina purges over 130,000 deceased voters from its rolls.

Convinced that his antagonist had been severely weakened by the purges of its regular forces and was preoccupied with suppressing grave internal threats, Hussein launched an invasion two days later.

During that time, the Red Army underwent a radical transformation, having been decimated by Joseph Stalin’s purges before Hitler’s armies invaded on June 22, 1941, inflicting horrendous losses.

Earlier purges of business figures and rivals had already cleared the way for the 34-year-old crown prince.

From gerrymandering to voter roll purges, we showed people around the world how the American system works.

In one of Stalin’s purges, he was sent to a prison for scientists in Siberia and stayed there till 1947.

In the case of voter purges, the issue is not as clearly about racial or ethnic discrimination.

Just four survived the Great purges, Stalin, his secretary Stassova and a close ally M. Muralov as well as Alexandra Kollontai.

Naturally, the war against absentee voting joins other pointless yet suppressive solutions like Voter ID laws, voter purges and other suppression tactics, predominantly aimed at traditionally Democratic voters, especially people of color.

Steep pay cuts and political purges may have depleted a professional team that won for its handling of the 2009 H1N1 crisis, in which Mexico was ground-zero for infections.

Abrams has founded an initiative Fair Fight 2020, an organization that plans to help ensure that 20 battleground states will protect voters’ rights and prevent suppression through voter purges in upcoming elections.

He said that marginalized communities in Wisconsin may face additional barriers to vote as a result of these purges.

In the 1930s, during the purges, it was the most dangerous address in the country.

Phone use is permitted during the day and televisions watched without fear of punishment, a far cry from the violent Taliban purges against technology in the past.

Some previous South Korean reports of North Korean purges and executions have later proved inaccurate.