mop-up operation

The rest of the evening could be conducted as a mop-up operation.

This was no more than a mop-up operation for Cohaagen's forces.

In this way, mop-up operations were usually excuses for block parties.

Also, the mop-up operation would be continued by the 322nd due to the 321st and 323rd were on Peleliu.

Then they would go in and add to what would hopefully only be a mop-up operation.

Performance of good mop-up operations where polio has disappeared.

It would only mean a nastier mop-up operation for Khyron's troops.

"You're no doubt wondering how the mop-up operations went.

They's why I told the Navy to hold off their mop-up operations; this base must be part of some larger plan.

What is clear is that the Munda conflict was no mop-up operation.

At 7:30 a.m. next morning, mop-up operations started again.

In the Bear Butte area, mop-up operations continued along completed fire lines.

The mop-up operation would be a bore.

There then followed a bizarre mop-up operation.

"You still planning a mop-up operation here?"

Firefighters also performed mop-up operations and patrolled along established fire lines; however, Route 20 remained closed.

Subsequently, the regiment camped in various places near Vicksburg, from which they joined several mop-up operations.

But the Iraqi Army has made clear that it considers the remaining skirmishing little more than a mop-up operation.

Colonel Jones told reporters on Saturday that it lasted "about five minutes," but mop-up operations did last longer.

And they said there was evidence that Serbian forces were conducting "mop-up operations," particularly in the northern part of Kosovo.

"Airmobile troops were flown in by helicopter immediately after the last strikes to support mop-up operations.

By the 24th the ship was off Tinian for the landings and mop-up operations to 4 August.

In the second phase of the offensive, a mop-up operation was designed to eliminate any pockets of resistance left over.

There were still many small fires, but large flare-ups were quickly doused in what was called a mop-up operation.

For five weeks Marine Corps troops and vehicles were shuttled around the island to facilitate mop-up operations.