1 The fifth labor was to clean the Augean stables in a single day.

2 How to clean the Augean stables of this city remains a critical problem.

3 We know, in short, that this was the Augean stables.

4 Throughout two years of high-flown speechifying he promised to clean the Augean stables of Washington, close the revolving door between power and money and raise ethical standards.

5 Although they know it is not easy to reform the Augean stables of this society, they are still trying to do it.

6 For far too long – under both James Murdoch and her own reign – the cleansing of the Augean stables looked more like a light dusting.