Eradicate in example sentence

I am working with the Nigerian government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to take needed – and long-overdue – action to eradicate polio in the country.

More example sentences with word eradicate

Augustine understood that our capacity to screw up, it's not some kind of embarrassing defect in the human system, something we can eradicate or overcome.

It's been working for 20 years to try and eradicate this disease, and it's got it down to these few cases that you can see here on this graphic.

The first is that, when we started trying to eradicate polio about 20 years ago, more than twice as many countries were infected than had been when we started off with smallpox.

So you can't see the enemy most of the time, and as a result, we've needed a very different approach to eradicate polio than what was done with smallpox.

All example sentences