Dislodge

Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns. ❋ Unknown (2009)

My guess is that if Hitler had been a bit smarter (i.e., not invaded Russia), his Nazi forces might have been impossible to dislodge from the occupied nations. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The plan will change when the games start; he can't risk having the pump dislodge from a hit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It could have been the chunks of ice that would dislodge from the nose of the plane and come careening back toward the propellers and explode when they hit the blades, or it could have been the Nor'Easter that no one bothered to tell the pilot was pounding the eastern seaboard. ❋ Andrew Beckner (2006)

Power was one of several "strolling priests" whom O Donel had tried to dislodge from the newly established Catholic mission in Newfoundland. 101 Power had removed himself to Caplin Bay, where he proceeded to stir up the district by charging that O Donel was favoring Munster priests over Leinster candidates in his recruiting for the mission. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The prime minister also called for troops to "dislodge" Mugabe as the country's humanitarian crisis worsens. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Israelis have tried to "dislodge" and "cleanse" the Party of God from southern Lebanon with both airstrikes and a failed twenty-two year military occupation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately, there is no simple way to 'dislodge' the interlopers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"dislodge" and "cleanse" the Party of God from southern Lebanon with both airstrikes and a failed twenty-two year military occupation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But by learning to leave the ball judiciously, and not being drawn into reaching for balls deliberately angled across him, Cook has become almost impossible for opposing bowlers to dislodge. ❋ Jonathan Clegg (2011)

Here, still, I am an intruder whose inexperienced hands could dislodge catheters and chest tubes even during the most cursory of physical exams. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

Waves of rock-throwing demonstrators occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square for hours Tuesday, beating back attempts to dislodge them by police wielding tear gas and water cannons. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Google never made a serious attempt to dislodge it. ❋ Steven Levy (2011)

HONOR ROLL: Loved Supernatural's slapstick homage to Arthurian legend, as Dean goes all "sword in the stone" to dislodge a dragon-slaying blade from its rocky roost. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Granting that the forms are not immediately from God, still long use has made them divine to us; for the spirit of religion has so penetrated and quickened them, that to destroy them is, in respect to the multitude of men, to unsettle and dislodge the religious principle itself. ❋ John (2009)

So I would like you to help me, and Coffee House, form an online intifada against the little lies we are fed every day by this Prime Minister and his kindred spirit Ken Livingstone - whom I very much hope the Londoners amongst you will help me dislodge in May. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

Rebels seeking to dislodge the country's leader, Moammar Gadhafi, have rejected those appeals. ❋ Jackie Bischof (2011)