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Example sentences for: rid

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Should the military be happy it's getting rid of all these people and becoming less, rather than more, like the society it's supposed to defend?
In November, 1991, when I mentioned to a resident of Sankt-Peterburg my distaste for the restored official name, she shrugged and remarked, Well, the thing was to get rid of the Lenin .
The United States spent $78 million last year to help the Russians get rid of their 40,000-ton stockpile, and plans to spend $27 billion over the next 10 years destroying its own 30,000 tons.
South Africa's Johannesburg Star, commenting in an editorial on President Nelson Mandela's appeal to African leaders this week to rid their continent of tyranny, was just as pessimistic: "A man-made famine in Sudan, the current border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and ongoing difficulties in bringing peace to Rwanda are among outrages that suggest the end of tyranny in Africa is a long way off."
Whatever it takes, though, we need to do more than marry one another if we are ever to rid our minds of color-consciousness.