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How to use Augean in a sentence

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Cleaning out the Augean stables was one of the labours of Hercules and the incoming Greek government faces similar challenges.
Hercules had avoided cleaning the Augean stables by diverting the course of two rivers through the building.
Hugh performs a Herculean task visiting the Augean stables of Durbin's mind.
One can't help thinking of Hercules cleaning up the Augean stables.
Enterprise in the world of business and industry does not always consist of herculean tasks like cleaning out the Augean stables.
There is a case to be made for cleaning the dungeons, cleaning the Augean Stables.
A soil recycling centre was opened in collaboration with partner Augean in Middlesbrough.
I had to chase the chickens back into the coop and close the door so I could finish with the Augean Stables of the chicken pen.
The Bush White House staff has begun the Augean task of spinning the Bush legacy.
Already, some prominent foreigners are carrying shovels into the Augean stables of Taiwan's banks.
It won't be a new John Kenneth Galbraith who cleans of the Augean stables of economics.
While David Cameron carouses with his ennobled chums, May has to cleanse the Augean stables he left behind.
For it is only in Greek mythology that the Augean stables were cleaned in a single day.
Cleaning up the police will be an Augean task. Mr Duarte is also venturing abroad.
In the current Augean state of the stables, I am not able to find fault with this well-bred winner.
This will not be because we did not try to open the gates and clean out the Augean stable that the federal government has become.
Hercules, after all, found a way to clean the Augean stables.
But the emergence of a band of Belgian designers dedicated to a radically deconstructed vision of dress signaled a mucking out of fashion's Augean stables.
The decision was quickly arrived at to clean the Augean stables of the civil service by strengthening the CSC, the only agency existing at the time with the capabilities to perform the mission.
For months it has been clear that Britain's fiscal mess is Augean.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is an Augean stable we have to clean, but Hercules was one, and we are many.
But the task is vast, it is herculean, like unto the cleaning of the Augean stables.
As well might Hercules have attempted to tidy up the Augean stables with a squirt.
We thought it was the nemean lion, and we have found it is the Augean stable.
Cleaning the Augean stables was something of the same sort of a job.
Not that he abandoned his determination to cleanse his Augean stables.
Augean stables are not to be cleansed with a spray of rose-water.
The Augean garage should be cleaned out in a day and new people from outside the company put in charge.
Similar to the Herculean efforts required to clean the Augean stables, much is needed of CCOs to keep corporations compliant.
One such challenge, the Vatican Bank, is equivalent to cleaning up the Augean stables.
It was the river alpheus that Hercules turned through the Augean stables.
He has done much to cleanse the Augean stables of the English theatre.
Augean PLC are putting forward proposals to extend the operational lifetime of the Port Clarence landfill site.
Similarly, the national chairman of the APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, has explained that Buhari's main preoccupation would be cleaning the Augean stables if he secures victory.
As somebody who came into the game's administration as Blatter's protege, felt Ali, Platini could not be the right choice to clean the Augean stables of Fifa.
Analogies have been plentiful since Blatter's announcement, but the tale of Hercules and his task of cleaning the Augean stables appears particularly relevant.
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