They'd leave the mop-up job to the hunting squads.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gift From Earth]

Conducted mop-up operations in Ruhr Pocket in April.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steel Victory]

Terry would be superior to the two mop-up boys running now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry For Governor] Reference

Military action to start with, mop-up the action in the courts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Payback] Reference

This is not mop-up operations, where we're about to close shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2001] Reference

Now it's mop-up time ... writing papers and a final evaluation.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

Extensive mop-up operations were currently underway in the Inner.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Afghan forces can mop-up; enlisting and training Afghans to fight our.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pretense of an Afghanistan Exit Plan] Reference

The JLA feel like a mop-up pitcher in the bullpen of a 3rd place team.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review: Justice League of America #36 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference

Because for the most part, what they're dealing with now is mop-up duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2007] Reference

You take a look right behind me, you can see that the mop-up crews are here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 9, 2007] Reference

"They fought magnificently, but didn't mop-up as they went along," explained the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

First the fire, then the water and the mop-up, left the worst kind of crime scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [7th Heaven]

The momentum has to continue on as you're designated to do these mop-up operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2003] Reference

A week of pre-planned "mop-up" operations would follow the official completion date.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

LAH (voice over): The mop-up after drenching rains at the nation's capital continues.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2006] Reference

And they expect that they'll be able to get into mop-up duty on that one very shortly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2007] Reference

The Eagles crushed the Falcons and then sent Vick in to do some mop-up, and boy did he.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 7, 2009] Reference

This resulted in municipal workers being used to "mop-up" after the private contractors.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Lehohla said areas had been identified where the mop-up operation had to be intensified.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

History shows us just how serious and prolonged the mop-up after a military victory can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2003] Reference

Lehohla said the mop-up operation was being conducted at no additional cost to the taxpayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It was only a question of time before the infantry gained the first houses and mop-up began.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steel Victory]

HARRIS: It creates a mop-up nightmare where the crews just have to lay in there day after day.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: Weather as a Weapon: Firefighters Put Rain to Their Advantage - September 2, 2000] Reference

Leading this particular mop-up team was a Necromonger warrior of singular size and reputa'tion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chronicles of Riddick]

KING: General Clark, what's the difficulty in a-- for want of a better term, a mop-up operation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2003] Reference

"During the last week of mop-up operations, the remaining 15 percent of families will be visited.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Balester had been serving in a mop-up role while making the first relief appearances of his career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balester sent to AAA to make way for Strasburg] Reference

"The planes will do a last final mop-up of the area, before flying back to Cape Town," Shirley said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For bankers like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, it was just another market mop-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Turns Tail] Reference

"A mop-up operation to rid the area of invading forces is under way and is expected to be completed soon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Society for Human Rights has called upon the soldiers involved in the mop-up operation to respect human rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And a mop-up squad patrolled outward from the reclaimed camp, picked up two living Throgs, both wandering witlessly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

Here in the global marketplace of the early 21st century, some American icons are becoming someone else's mop-up work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcoa's Stint in the Minor Leagues] Reference

It had let them get in, but now it was going to play games with them ... at least until a mop-up squad came to pick them up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moonheart]

Upstairs, the fire crew was doing mop-up and overhaul, dismantling the second-story ceiling, putting out hot spots under the eaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [7th Heaven]

Unless they knew that there had been three cruisers out on a raid and for some reason they were determined to make a complete mop-up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

"Costs involved in sustaining the census mop-up operation will be covered by the census budget, since they pay per questionnaire," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference