There were other hopeful signs that the Army would soon be rid of Jim Crow.
He ran with glee, so glad to be rid of her, back where he belonged.
And so I think I shall be quite glad to be rid of all of that.
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The golf industry thinks the timing is right to be rid of the 1971 measure.
They want to be rid of Mr Zardari, but they do not want to stage another coup.
The Cabbie stopped as he was told, and pulled the trunk release, eager to be rid of the man.
Drugs should not be legalised simply because attempts to be rid of the problem have so far been unsuccessful.
When and if Saddam is eventually hanged, Iraqis will finally be rid of a dictator who brutalized his own people.
But exactly what part of the Chelyabinsk Ministry of Industry will be rid of routine by the expensive Magellan system?
The Palestinian Authority (PA) insists on its longstanding position: The sovereign territory of Palestine must be rid of all Jews.
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But, in a country that needs above all to be rid of colour-consciousness, South Africans entrench racial categories at their peril.
The world will not be rid of poverty, war or terrorism until almost everyone on Earth is in the middle class.
Mr. GARY ABBOTT (Canadian): I'd just as soon see you people get him, and then we'd be rid of him for a while.
They were held together by friendship and a wish to be rid of the hobbling academicism of much American poetry in the 1940s.
While several accounts have suggested Ailes was anxious to be rid of the controversial host, Beck says Ailes challenged his desire to walk away.
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There are reasons to think that many Afghans would like to be rid of the Taliban, if only they could believe in an alternative.
The forces they want to be rid of are those of Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, which, for their own reasons, back the Congolese rebels.
In order to be rid of his dire influence, we should have left the job of mourning him to his family and few close friends.
According to recent polls, a majority of Germans think they would be better off without the euro, and many would be rid of the EU too.
News Corp. might be able to drive the bidding up a little higher were it not so anxious to be rid of MySpace before the end of the fiscal year.
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"We have this intuition that our commander Chavez was poisoned by dark forces that wanted to be rid of him, " said Maduro, who was sworn in as Venezuela's interim president on Friday.
Their very haste suggests a growing embarrassment: lumbered with this ungainly process, they too would probably like to be rid of it and to settle for some swift, simple reprimand, such as censure.
While they are delighted to be rid of Saddam, they have had to trade their autonomous enclave in the north, with its own (stable) currency, for a minority position in a lawless Iraq.
If history is a guide, Murdoch will find some way to keep Brooks around until the furor has died down even if he then finds some other pretext to be rid of her.
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Most know that much money has indeed been spent but not that the armed forces brutalised and plundered the territory, and therefore that those who support independence may have good reason for wanting to be rid of Indonesian rule.
Any settlement endorsed by the two major northern nationalist parties, the two governments and the major unionist party was always bound to meet approval in the south, where people are eager to be rid of the legacy of Irish-British conflict which few think relevant to the last years of the century.
If we are seen as less able (or willing) to protect them with our deterrent, the world is likely to have a lot more nuclear weapons, not fewer of them (let alone be rid of them, as Mr. Obama hopes) and surely be a lot more dangerous for the United States.
Forest debris used to be got rid of by burning in cooler months, but conservationists objected.
Bad MPs need to be got rid of: some of the worst ones have already said they will stand down.
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