1.   The proposals are an attempt to rid the country of political corruption.

2.   The rebels claimed that they had acted to rid the country of the inefficiency, incompetence and corruption of which, they said, the Aquino government was guilty.

3.   But Serbian leader Slobodan Milosovic is anxious to rid his country of Western economic sanctions and may choose to stay on the sidelines.

4.   It is clear, through reports by British diplomats in Germany, that the Hitler regime was in the process of ridding the country of its Jews then.

5.   Rumsfeld said the United States had received the strongest possible assurances from officials of the interim Afghan government that they share the goal of ridding the country of terrorists.

6.   The country will be rid of him soon, and for that congratulations are in order.

7.   The laws, meant to rid the country of immigrants who have committed serious crimes, have had an unexpected consequence.

8.   The Macedonians, eager to rid their country of its burgeoning Albanian population, did not bother to let the refugees know where they were headed.

9.   Premier Costas Simitis said Friday Greece will no longer tolerate what he described as an immigrant crime wave and pledged drastic measures to rid the country of the problem.

10.   Pastrana is also focused on ridding his country of drug traffickers.