11.   If field tests prove successful, the scientists hope, it could be a significant breakthrough in ridding the world of methyl bromide.

12.   If these are the partners we are relying on in our war to rid the world of terror, that war is as good as lost.

13.   I would rid the world of wife beaters and rapists and people who make light of either.

14.   In private, some top Arab officials have confided that they would support a U.S.-led campaign if it could be certain to rid the world of him.

15.   Instead of ridding the world of attorneys we annihilate the consultants.

16.   Internet auctions are promoted for their ability to rid the world of middlemen and let buyers and sellers strike deals in free-market harmony.

17.   It should not be to rid the world of evildoers, as President Bush has put it.

18.   It should not even be to rid the world of the scourge of terrorism, as Secretary of State Colin Powell has put it.

19.   No one disagrees that ridding the world of these stockpiles is an important first step toward annihilating all such weapons.

20.   Now the founders of a Web site, www.nomoreao.com, have launched a collection drive designed to rid the world of all unwanted silver discs from AOL.