"Deterministic behavior from unreliable elements," she said.

The purges had the objective of cleansing the Red Army of the "politically unreliable elements", mainly among higher-ranking officers.

At 8:30 am, General Spoor gave a radio broadcast ordering his forces to cross the Van Mook line and capture Yogyakarta to "purge" the Republic of "unreliable elements".

"I guess I'd eliminate the unreliable element."

And Washington will need to do something about its intelligence to weed out old-regime loyalists and other unreliable elements.

The action committees also purged all governmental and political party organs of unreliable elements.

We can't make a move that drastic immediately, of course, and we can't be positive that all the unreliable elements would be pruned away in the purge even when we do.

That meant shutting everything down, confining all unreliable elements behind wire, and calling out the Probationers and Probationer-Emeritus reserves.

By the end of October the Germans decided to stop arming the "unreliable" elements within Pećanac's Chetniks, and attached the remainder to their other Serbian auxiliary forces.

They are too random an element: unpredictable and unreliable, and most of all, ungovernable.