6 sentences with “purge”

Harry Bennett acquired control of this force sometime in the 1920s; after a purge, the department effectively became his own private army.

Clearly, the priority was not an attempt to purge pagan culture, but the introduction of Christianity in a way that could more easily take root.

War was an ideal of bravery and honour that many young men in Europe in 1914 craved as a way to prove themselves, to prove their loyalty and to purge their boredom and uncertainty about the future.

Each purge was designed to, at least in part, purge the purgers of the past, blaming them for "excesses" that had killed innocent people - this, of course, simply led to the murder of more innocents.

The Egyptian goddess Isis, who was at the heart of the largest mystery cult in the entire Mediterranean region, was so popular among women and men that repeated attempts to purge her cult from Rome as socially disruptive failed utterly.

1. Baptism - believed to be necessary to purge the original sin of a newborn child. Without baptism, medieval Christians believed that even a newborn child who died would be denied entry into heaven. Therefore, most people sought to baptise their newborns immediately after birth, as infant mortality was extremely high.