mopping-up

Anyway I'd better ask a question about the baseball, how does the mopping-up operation in New York compare with Lord's?

Detroit Tigers v New York Yankees - live! | Steve Busfield 2011

It called for a "national dialogue" on May 13, and has increasingly depicted its efforts as mopping-up operations.

Opposition Deadlocked With Syria's Government Nour Malas 2011

This is, in essence, a long-delayed mopping-up operation, and a bid by the Japanese conglomerate to maintain its hold on critical resources in an increasingly competitive market.

Market Turmoil Fails to Deter Coal & Allied Bid David Fickling 2011

For those who looked to the media for information, traps were continually sprung, and now the journos are engaged in mopping-up operations.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

After all, the ferocity of the Government Army's mopping-up operations did not discriminate between men and women.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

He was conscripted in 1946 and was demobilized in 1950, after having fought against the DSE in every important campaign, from the Peloponnese mopping-up operations to the final battles on the mountains of Grammos and Vitsi.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

Marines enter into the mopping-up phase of their offensive in the southern town of Marja, the Taliban seem unfazed, and able and willing to attack Kabul at the time and place of their choosing.

Shellshocked 2010

Vlachou remained outside the combat zone, but Giotopoulou '... was an ordinary fighter who fought in many battles, including mopping-up operations' (Eleftherotipia/Free Press, 2 March 1986).

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

Note 39: When the National Guard's 'mopping-up' operations commenced in 1948, the partisans were concentrated in the Grammos and Vitsi mountains of northern Greece, after a decisive and brutal defeat of partisan forces in the Peloponnesus.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

It refers to the partisan women and children who were victims of the mass relocation scheme of whole villages undertaken by the Greek Army during their mopping-up operations.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008