1. The cess was aimed at mopping up funds for tobacco farmers'rehabilitation.

2. But a message compelled the victorious Babylonian prince to leave mopping-up operations to his generals.

3. Hitler’s Panzer divisions, after successfully mopping up Poland, suddenly swung around and the blitz against western Europe was on.

4. In the summer of 1944 he was sent to the Pacific to take command of the 6th Marines, then involved in mopping-up on Saipan.

5. A final major engagement occurred during the night of 15 February, and mopping up operations continued throughout the peninsula for about another week.

6. Tactical counter-offensives, such as our repulse of the enemy's "mopping-up" campaigns in southeastern Shansi, are not only possible but absolutely necessary.

7. And so, really, so much of what we do in medicine and life in general is focused on mopping up the floor without also turning off the faucet.

8. Is it, as the good-hearted liberal reformist suggests, that we have simply not got around to mopping up these pockets of human misery, but shall do so in the fullness of time?