(Admittedly, no party completely purges its rhetoric of terms like phallologocentric, however.)

Controversially, in an attempt to revise history and justify renaming the city as Chennai, the ruling party has purged the history of the early English Madras settlements.

The party uses caging lists created by themselves or by the Board of Elections to challenge the registration status of voters and potentially purge them from the voting rolls under state laws which allow voters whose registrations are suspect to be challenged.

He called the party purge a necessary measure "to maintain party unity and defend the state's sovereignty against such elements."

Under Mr. Sanader, the party has purged extremists, some of whom were implicated in war crimes committed during the 1991-95 Balkan wars, and he has embraced a pro-American foreign policy.

When they were unable to influence the leadership, they left the party and Hall purged them from the membership, including such leaders as Angela Davis and Charlene Mitchell.

Gheorghiu-Dej made Pauker, Luca and Georgescu scapegoats for the Romanian communist past excesses and claimed that the Romanian party had purged its Stalinist elements even before Stalin died in 1953.

The party promptly announced new limits on Sajudis' independent press, purged several party and government officials considered sympathetic to the movement, and warned of a possible state of emergency if the separatist calls did not subside.

That a party would systematically purge voters, particularly those as loyal to the GOP as post-Reconstruction era Blacks, can only be seen as an attempt to repudiate the liberal social policy positions on which the Republican Party was founded.