1.   In giving most people middle-class aspirations it tried to rid the nation of its old-fashioned class structure.

2.   Compared with the complex technology involved in putting the nuclear genie back into the bottle, ridding the nation of chemical weapons has been relatively simple.

3.   Does this mean ridding the nation of Tylenol and Robitussin?

4.   For a giddy moment there, it looked as though the nation might be rid of one of the more obscene dodges in political money grubbing and influence mongering.

5.   The industry says that ridding the nation of biotechnology-based ingredients would require a huge and costly reform of the agriculture system.

6.   The libertarian right was on the upswing, deregulating, privatizing, deunionizing and ridding the nation of the threat of Big Government.

7.   Other statues throughout the country are being demolished with rockets, tanks and explosives, ridding the nation of reminders of its pre-Islamic past.

8.   Other statues throughout the country were being demolished with rockets, tanks and explosives, ridding the nation of reminders of its pre-Islamic past.

9.   Cardoso argues that only long-term economic reforms can rid the nation of its dire poverty.

10.   It is abundantly clear that anti-vandalism campaigns alone are inadequate to rid the nation of this insidious problem.