Mental Floss, one of my favorite sites, has a namesake that conjures brain cleansing.
Nor is precipitating a depression the most expeditious way of cleansing bank and corporate balance sheets.
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Iraq is particularly troubling because of the sectarian cleansing that the war has generated.
If all this brings to mind ethnic cleansing, that may also explain the response in ex-Yugoslavia.
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Anything that stops short of cleansing the European banking system will not be enough.
It was a cog in the machinery of a three-country contrivance for cleansing illicit profits.
Continuous cleansing draws out infectious materials, keeps out new contaminants, and saves limbs and lives.
"It is ethnic cleansing on a massive scale, " one humanitarian aid official told CNN.
In Kosovo, Islamic heritage was seriously damaged by "ethnic cleansing" operations carried out in 1998-1999.
The feeling of relief can feel cleansing, but it may not necessarily be improving your health.
They undertake special diets and cleansing routines, sleep on the floor and practice regular prayer.
There was also concern that patients would consider an at-home cleansing regimen too onerous.
At the same time, Serbs are ethnically cleansing thousands of Moslems and Croats from the region.
When some sort of growth returned to the markets, an inventory cleansing began, the market tightened.
The military industry is "successfully testing (its equipment) in this operation of ethnic cleansing".
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Some carried union flags and banners reading 'stop the ethnic cleansing of our British identity'.
The government is bent on ethnic cleansing of territory surrounding other, as yet unexploited, oil fields.
He stood accused of ethnically cleansing Kosovo of its Muslim population which was perceived as innocent.
Europeans made the first journey to Muslim lands in a campaign of ethnic cleansing the Crusades.
But now, some antiregime activists openly charge the regime and its allies of "sectarian cleansing" of Sunnis.
Given the deep hatreds engendered in recent years by Milosevic's ethnic cleansing campaigns, the solution seems clear.
"What happened in Long Branch is what I would call socio-economic cleansing, " says Peter Dickson, a Princeton, N.
Foreclosures while usually tragic for the homeowner involved are an important part of the cleansing process.
Supporters of Morsi held a rally on Friday calling for "cleansing the judiciary, " in support of the bill.
"In a poetic sense, we are using nature's weapons, nature's cleansing agents, to solve a problem, " Tan said.
If Russia felt excluded from the decision to reverse that ethnic cleansing, it mostly had itself to blame.
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One reason is that Mr Rajoy flunked hard choices at the outset, notably the cleansing of the banks.
And ethnic cleansing and looting of Georgian villages in South Ossetia took place under the gaze of Russian troops.
Ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia sent millions back and forth as nationalist Serbs, Croats and Bosnians formed their own fiefs.
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The darkest moments of war, occupation, mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and autocratic leadership and crony capitalism were all there.
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