It taxed the resources of the municipality to the utmost and left scars on the city that took years to efface. |
This view is so fundamentally flawed yet so implicit in the Australian mentality that it seems almost impossible to efface or even moderate. |
Globalisation, America and the European Union are all said to have had a hand in the plot to efface secularism. |
By volunteering to go, prisoners would win a remission of sentence and efface the stigma of jail. |
Even so, this ambivalence about the redemptive value of art does not efface the authorial voice of the film. |
The better to efface the impress of their tyrannical past, I had to dip them into water. |