It's hard to change a bad habit.

It's difficult to root out certain prejudices.

So farmers abandoned their efforts to eliminate the moth.

You can take a Damascene out of Damascus, but you can never take Damascus out of our hearts. This_is_Damascus

Isn t lawlessness the plague we are finally trying to eradicate in Cambodia?

We must do what we can to stop the violence.

Judicial reforms are, in turn, helping to root out corruption.

We must do what we can to stop the violence.

The horrible truth is that failure to eradicate the root causes of terrorism is almost certain to extend the Age of Terrorism, it is not clear that they really can be eradicated.

Attempts to eradicate it using chemicals worked only fleetingly.

Just as we once eliminated smallpox, so can we eliminate others.

This is a real concern, as children in Bulgaria were paralyzed only last year due to polio imported from India.

Yet nothing has been done to root out this tool of terror.

Indeed, Djindjic may well be a victim of his recent moves to root out organized crime.

One school believes that modern terrorism cannot be eradicated, or that the costs of doing so are unacceptably high.

Similarly, while many countries are told to privatize social security, America's public social security system is efficient (with transactions costs a fraction of private annuities), and customers are responsive to it. It has been pivotal in almost eliminating poverty among America's elderly.

It has been pivotal in almost eliminating poverty among America's elderly.

Yet nothing has been done to root out this tool of terror.

We have to fight it decisively right now, or else we'll never be able to stamp it out.

If my intention was to eradicate evil for Islam, then I will be rewarded with paradise.

Still other are taking the news as a rallying cry to root out the real menace in Russian society The beer lobby is coercing Russia!

Rotarians dreamed not only of reducing the number of polio cases, but of eradicating the disease entirely.

For the first time in human history, the world is within striking distance of ending global poverty.

This strategy emphasizes the maintenance of an extensive law enforcement apparatus designed to eliminate any incipient organized opposition.

Yet the situation is changing in Kyrgyzstan, with individual victories gradually helping to root out the practice of bride kidnapping.

The Slavery Commission sought to eradicate slavery and slave trading across the world, and fought forced prostitution.

An entirely new financial culture needs to be implemented to eliminate corruption, and this will require that Africans monitor other Africans.

COPENHAGEN Discussions about global warming are marked by an increasing desire to stamp out impure thinking, to the point of questioning the value of democratic debate.

They advocate changes to Cuban law that eradicate discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender.

The population is not to blame, rather it is the authorities who did not adequately and effectively communicate about how to eradicate it.

This fight will hardly be won even in the far future, because nobody will be dealing with checking millions of pages for legality of content usage.

Southern Punjab is seeing a rapid growth in the number of religious fanatics, and rooting out the problem there is much more challenging than acting in the Pashtun tribal areas.

Massive investments are also needed in education to eradicate deep pockets of illiteracy, raise overall skill levels, and better match skills to the demands of the market.

Building these routine immunization systems has already helped us to eradicate diseases like polio and all but one type of measles.

The message that UNAIDS are currently sending out to the world is that we would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of the virus from mother to child by 2015.

China has no other choice but to pursue sustainable development in order to meet the basic needs of its people and to eradicate poverty.

After all, isn't Enron's bankruptcy a crystal clear example of inmates controlling their guards? If America wants to lead capitalism's global march, it must exorcize a growing culture of corporate crony capitalism.

We want to show that good governance and growth will help to eradicate poverty and the instability that has characterized our region for so long.

If America wants to lead capitalism's global march, it must exorcize a growing culture of corporate crony capitalism.

Under the banner of integrated pest management, hundreds of invasive species are now successfully controlled by strategies that restrict the population growth of pests but do not attempt to eradicate them

Toledo assumed the presidency planning to dismantle the corruption that marked Fujimori's administrations and end the reign of his crooked chief of intelligence, Vladimiro Montesinos.

This would prove impossible to eradicate in the absence of improved means of cleaning and decontaminating surgical instruments and a specific test preferably based on a blood assay to screen asymptomatic carriers.

Recent research suggests that efforts to eliminate cancers may actually hasten the emergence of resistance and tumor recurrence, thus reducing a patient s chances of survival.

Roh, a self made man who passed a bar examination without going to college and law school, succeeded in convincing voters that he would usher in a new brand of politics reflecting South Korea's growing wealth and middle class sentiments, thereby sweeping away insider dominated politics, regional bickering, and factional struggles. His style and rhetoric projected the fresh (for Korea!) image of a common man committed to eliminating the ossified networks of cronyism and corruption.

Regardless of what is done to provide a fiscal stimulus, governments around the world must act to fix dysfunctional credit markets. Otherwise, credit will not flow and growth will not resume.