1.   Residents will have to step up if they want to rid this area of crime.

2.   They issued an ultimatum to the police to rid an area of racist attackers, or they will take the law into their own hands.

3.   He became the imam, or leader, of the neighborhood mosque and was credited by some residents with ridding the area of drug dealers and prostitutes.

4.   In Queens, the closing of Goldfingers was hailed as a major victory by local officials, who had battled for years to rid the area of strip clubs.

5.   Last month, police officers began patrolling Vine in hopes of ridding the area of drugs and prostitution and establishing positive relations with residents and business owners.

6.   Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

7.   Rid the area of rocks and broken roots.

8.   That may do the job all by itself, by ridding the area of neurochemicals associated with painand breaking up adhesions and scar tissue that restrict jaw motion.

9.   Though insecticides can help rid an area of the grasshoppers, Hoelscher said, many of the insects will escape and move to an adjacent unsprayed field.

10.   We also get to meet a Maryland couple who have started a business in crime scene cleanup, ridding their area of messy organ pieces and bodily fluids.