In 1930, Mao claimed a need to eliminate alleged KMT spies and Anti-Bolsheviks operating inside the Jiangxi Soviet and began an ideological campaign featuring torture and guilt by association, in order to eliminate his enemies.

Under the Administration of U. S. President George W. Bush, the Interior Department's maintenance backlog climbed from $ 5 billion to $ 8. 7 billion, despite Bush's campaign pledges to eliminate it completely.

The fruit machine was employed in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s during a campaign to eliminate all homosexuals from the civil service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), and the military.

The U. S. incursion into Cambodia in May 1970 to eliminate North Vietnamese sanctuaries, the renewed bombing of North Vietnam and the mining of its harbors in the spring of 1972 in response to a North Vietnamese offensive, and another bombing campaign against the North in December 1972 brought widespread protest.

The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade ( 1209 – 1255 ) was a 45-year military campaign initiated by the Catholic Church to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc.

Since its launch in Paris in December 2008, Global Zero ( campaign ) has grown to 300 leaders, including current and former heads of state, national security officials and military commanders, and 400, 000 citizens worldwide ; developed a practical step-by-step plan to eliminate nuclear weapons ; launched an international student campaign with 75 campus chapters in eight countries ; and produced an acclaimed documentary film, Countdown to Zero, in partnership with Lawrence Bender and Participant Media.

Ian Gibson suggests that García Lorca's assassination was part of a campaign of mass killings intended to eliminate supporters of the Marxist Popular Front.

The City of Ypres hosts the international campaign secretariat of Mayors for Peace, an international Mayoral organization mobilizing cities and citizens worldwide to abolish and eliminate nuclear weapons by the year 2020.

Combat and accidents reduced but did not eliminate the P-40 complement, and a muster of approximately a dozen pursuit pilots, called the " Bataan Field Flying Detachment ," continued to fly missions until the last day of the campaign, employing mainly 30-pound fragmentation bombs and machine gun fire as ordnance.

He fought 30 years and filed 21 cases to eliminate limits on campaign spending, and to keep donor lists private.

In a Nike campaign in the advance of the 2006 World Cup, Cantona appears as the lead spokesman for the Joga Bonito organization, an association attempting to eliminate acting and fake play from football.

After the massacres at Tun in 1256 AD, Hulegu became directly involved in the Mongol campaign to eliminate the Ismaili centres of power.

Because legal persons have limited " free speech " rights, legislation meant to eliminate campaign contributions by legal persons ( notably, corporations and labor unions ) has been repeatedly struck down by various courts.

A UUOC campaign will eliminate the inefficiency from shell scripts by using redirection instead.

* September 19 – 22 – Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A5M (" Claude ") fighters conduct a successful campaign to eliminate Chinese air resistance over Nanking.

VIII Bomber Command was the UK-based strategic bomber arm of the Eighth Air Force and contributed a substantial part of Operation Pointblank, the day-night bombing campaign by the RAF and USAAF to eliminate the Luftwaffe in preparation for the invasion of Europe.

A large campaign to kill the ants has been partially effective, but it has not been able to eliminate all of them.

Suslov was becoming progressively more critical of Khrushchev's policies, his political intransigence, and his campaign to eliminate what was left of the old Stalinist guard.

Since its launch in Paris in December 2008, Global Zero ( campaign ) has grown to 300 leaders, including current and former heads of state, national security officials and military commanders, and 400, 000 citizens worldwide ; developed a practical step-by-step plan to eliminate nuclear weapons ; launched an international student campaign with 75 campus chapters in eight countries ; and produced an acclaimed documentary film, Countdown to Zero, in partnership with Lawrence Bender and Participant Media.

Some of his critics allege that Anslinger and the campaign against marijuana had a hidden agenda, DuPont petrochemical interests and William Randolph Hearst together created the highly sensational anti-marijuana campaign to eliminate hemp as an industrial competitor.

These included the popular " Put a Tiger in Your Tank " advertising campaign and accompanying tiger mascot, introduced in 1959, to promote Enco Extra and Esso Extra gasolines.

In 2001, computer giant IBM launched an advertising campaign in Chicago and San Francisco which involved people spray painting on sidewalks a peace symbol, a heart, and a penguin ( Linux mascot ), to represent " Peace, Love, and Linux.

* Ralph Nader ( mascot for his 2008 campaign for president )

Oscar was adopted as the mascot for Waste Reduction Week in Canada, an environmental campaign that took place October 19 – 25, 2008.

The cereal was launched in 1963, bolstered by a successful advertising campaign created by noted animator Jay Ward introducing the cereal's longtime naval mascot, Cap ' n Crunch.

When the University of Mississippi began a process to find a new mascot in 2010, some students started a campaign to have Admiral Ackbar selected.

As part of the company's marketing campaign and slogan, Wanda Sykes was hired to voice the chain's new mascot, the Applebee's Apple.

Morgan High School in McConnelsville, Ohio, near the site where Morgan crossed the Muskingum River, named their mascot the Raiders in honor of Morgan's campaign into southeast Ohio.

South Ripley High School in Versailles Indiana, the location of a skrmish with Morgan's Raiders, named their mascot the Raiders in honor of his campaign across Indiana.

A new ad campaign is currently revolving around a ' Hooded Menace ' threatening to take over the Double Stuf Racing League, and Eli Manning and Stufy ( the DSRL mascot ) needing some help airing beginning on or around September 14, 2010.

He can be seen at Citi Field during Mets home games, has appeared in several commercials as part of ESPN's This is SportsCenter campaign, and has been elected into the Mascot Hall of Fame .. On April 30, 2012, Forbes Magazine listed Mr. Met as the # 1 mascot in all of sports.

In the 1980s, the character connected with a new generation as the mascot and feature character of a well-received advertising campaign promoting the IBM PC personal computer.

Benny Beaver is the official mascot of Oregon State University and current winner of the 2011 Capital One Mascot of the Year write-in campaign.

However, Benny Beaver won the 2011 Capital One Mascot of the Year write-in campaign, earning the mascot program $ 1000 and inclusion in the following year's Capital One All-America Mascot Team.

That changed in late 1991, as Sega built their marketing campaign around their new mascot Sonic the Hedgehog, pushing the Genesis as the " cooler " alternative to Nintendo's console and inventing the term " Blast Processing " to suggest that the Genesis was capable of handling games with faster motion than the SNES.

In August 2009, Arudou — acting as chair FRANCA ( the Foreign Residents and Naturalized Citizens Association )— began a letter-writing campaign in protest of a promotional advertisement by McDonald ’ s Japan featuring a bespectacled, mildly geeky, 43-year-old American Japanophile known as “ Mr. James ”— a burger mascot who proclaims his love for the fast-food outlet in halting, broken Japanese.

Since the initiation of the ad campaign, the " Roaming Gnome " has become the de facto mascot of Travelocity.

* The Yellow-eyed Penguin is used as the mascot to Dunedin City Council's recycling and solid waste management campaign.

Saracens mascot Sarrie the CamelWith Mike Ford being offered a role in the England set-up, former Leinster, Munster and Australia coach Alan Gaffney was appointed coach for the 2006 campaign.

Lucy Koh, a friend of Mayes, made efforts to correct the history of the Singapura presented by the Meadows but that went relatively unnoticed until 1990, when the Singapore Tourist and Promotion Board ( now Singapore Tourism Board ) started a campaign to use the Singapura as a national mascot.

The gorilla was the company mascot following a 1969 advertising campaign.

In reaction to the earlier myths about students " gobbling " their meals, football coach and athletic director Bill Dooley spearheaded a campaign for a new look and name for the mascot, which debuted at the 1981 football game against Wake Forest.

Harold Bell of Western Publishing ( and producer of Smokey Bear public service announcements ), along with Glen Kovar and Chuck Williams, originally created the mascot in 1970 as part of a United States Forest Service campaign to raise awareness of protecting the environment.

In late August 2007, it was announced that Disney's version of the Peter Pan character would become the mascot for Peter Pan Peanut Butter, alongside many other characters from Disney's 1953 animated film version to appear in their new advertising campaign, possibly in 2009.