Word: ridding
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...used to be much more difficult to go abroad than it is now,” Edwards said. “We’ve tried to get rid of as many obstacles as we can. We’ve tried to make sure students can get the funding they need and that there is no uncertainty about [academic] credit...
There's oodles of action in Nick Park and Steve Box's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, about the attempts of a daffy English inventor and his stoic, smarter dog to rid their home village of a vegetable-ravaging monster. Wallace, the man, scoops up rabbits by the hundreds in his mighty Bun-Vac 6000 ("It blows and sucks"). Gromit, the pooch, gets involved in some World War I--style aerial combat with another canine--a real dogfight. At film's end, the heroine, Lady Tottington, and the dread Were-Rabbit have a housetop confrontation worthy...
...rid of poverty, you may have to go down and plant a tree; then at least you will have taken action,” Maathai said...
Therefore, what is required to be rid of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” is to repeal this law, and to replace it with a law which allows gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. Such a law, “The Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2005,” has been proposed by Rep. Martin Meehan (D-Mass.) and is supported by 94 co-sponsors in Congress...
Their reaction was, "I have a terrific retirement plan that I hadn't anticipated. They must have really wanted to get rid of me if they were willing to give me that much not to come back." So it's a mixed thing. Being bought out is not exactly leaving with everybody regretting that you're going and recognizing that you have made your choice. It's being pushed out in a nice...