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The Party won a sweeping victory at the general election.
His music is sweeping the whole country.
My father is sweeping the garage.
Sweeping the room is my daughter's job.
Tom is sweeping his room.
I am sweeping the yard.
Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
Tom resumed sweeping the floor.
Tom handed me a broom and told me to start sweeping.
Movie subtitles
And in a foreign land - in Prague - a Cossack walks along a street, sweeping it with his wide trousers.
It's a long sweeping movement like this.
It'd be bad luck to start up housekeepin' without some salt, bread. and a sweeping' broom.
With the way things are in our mountains now, it needs more than salt and bread and a sweeping' broom.
I spend my life making beds, sweeping floors, ironing!
It's a nice apartment and I don't mind dusting and sweeping. but I hate cooking.
I get kind of tired just sweeping up dust.
All those years I spent sweeping other people's smoke. cooped up in chimneys, looking at the sky through a square hole.
And I start it with this dancer, the beset one in every household, lying dormant after sweeping out the nazis and all other evils!
How about sweeping it back?
But I suppose it's okay for a wife to slave away all day washing plates, cooking, ironing, sweeping up... scrubbing the floor, only for her tired husband to come home, eat and then roll over and fall asleep snoring all night long.
Sweeping among the dead leaves in a rage. so that I'm forced to remain indoors.
I was sweeping up a bit.
Only time I seen you break cover. is when they're sweeping', cleaning' the house, callin' you to the dinner table.
We mustn't make sweeping statements.
Well Billy, when you finish sweeping you can dust.
You think you can run. Before you know it, it is upon you, sweeping you off your feet, and your heart, your heart is beating like the storm.
This must be a room i missed sweeping out the other day.
Our village has been peaceful since the dam broke, sweeping the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster away some years ago.
Since none of them believe for a moment the test will succeed, they feel it imperative that they should be prepared. To issue as effective and as sweeping a statement as possible. To offset the almost ruinous publicity that reindeers have received.
Think of these unfortunates, every day at dawn, sweeping debris into the gutter with coarse broomsticks.
But now Santa Anna's army is free to move, and they're sweeping across Texas.
Look, it's sweeping the floor.
Perfect for sweeping up!
But he can't do that. It's like sweeping it under the rug.
When you speak like that, I hear music, too. great sweeping chords.
It's a long, sweeping movement.
Before you know it, it is upon you, sweeping you off your feet, and your heart, your heart is beating like the storm.
Sweeping down the stairs.
Is this what you Americans call sweeping a girl off her feet?
We're sweeping the floor with our gowns.
Our true mission is. sweeping away the thousands of miscarriages that everyday. obscenely. try to come to the light.
And I had the strong feeling that something dark and terrible was still sweeping over that family.
After he has roamed the woods, sweeping his brush, he'll see what's right.
Sweeping the area of Outpost 2.
Fire judges everything in its path, sweeping it up as it goes.
News and current affairs
Many countries require sweeping reforms to make their tax systems more efficient and their entitlement programs - including their pension schemes - more realistic.
A democratic tide seems to be sweeping across the Arab world.
Since politicians ask us to entrust them with sweeping powers, it can be argued that we should know as much as possible about their morality.
The last election that was followed by such a sweeping change in policy direction occurred in 1980, when President Ronald Reagan overhauled taxes, spending, and regulation, and supported the Federal Reserve's course of disinflation.
Two rulings of the United States Supreme Court this week rejected the sweeping wartime powers claimed by President Bush.
Instead, what is called for is a sweeping solution to all the core issues.
Opposition to Morsi hardened following the annulled November 2012 constitutional declaration, by which he had sought sweeping powers - allegedly to protect the country's infant elected institutions against a politicized judiciary.
It is no less important to reduce the presidency's sweeping powers and formulate viable mechanisms for enforcing the accountability of all public officials without exception.
But this is not an issue of sweeping moves that will change the world from one day to the next.
CAMBRIDGE: After a wasted decade, the world is rousing itself against the AIDS pandemic sweeping through the world's poorest countries, especially in Africa and South-Asia.
And here, Obama, in particular, will soon understand that Hollande has no intention of bringing sweeping change.
Already, Greek voters handed the far-left anti-austerity Syriza party a sweeping victory in January.
In 2012, the government implemented sweeping labor-market reforms to increase companies' internal flexibility (making it easier to dismiss permanent workers and facilitating wage moderation), and introduced a model for reducing workers' hours.
Indeed China-mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China's rapid economic rise.
More telling, and significant in the long term, is the remarkable anti-US and anti-UK sentiment now sweeping Iraq.
Since his sweeping re-election, he has been surprisingly modest and magnanimous.
At home and abroad, it is impossible to miss the breadth and depth of change sweeping the globe, particularly in Asia.
But much more important was what the fascist and authoritarian regimes shared - all were beneficiaries of a sweeping collapse of the legitimacy of democratic politics.
The goal for the representatives of the nearly 200 countries who will meet in Copenhagen should not be a single sweeping agreement so much as a set of more modest agreements.
A French proposal in 2011 for a sweeping reform of the international monetary regime went nowhere.
Her second sweeping proposal, the withdrawal of voting rights in the Council, was abandoned at the Council's recent meeting in Brussels.
This is certainly true of Greece, whose structural problems are much more sweeping than even its financial difficulties.
Creative destruction (reinforced by economic openness and technology) is sweeping the world.