Sentence examples for Consider sweeping from inspiring English sources

While such sentiment makes it unlikely that lawmakers will consider sweeping new gun restrictions, Congress is considering a number of more modest proposals.

Democrats say they are willing to allow a new special committee to consider sweeping deficit reduction and tax policy changes but want the debt limit increase assured; Republicans do not want President Obama to get a second increase without meeting some standard, which would be passage of a balanced budget amendment through Congress under the new House plan.

A week after President Obama took the oath of office, Alice Rivlin, budget chief to President Bill Clinton, testified before a Congress that was about to consider sweeping stimulus legislation.

Voters in Tennessee, North Dakota and Colorado will consider sweeping ballot measures on Tuesday that would eliminate the right to abortion under their state constitutions and, in some cases, criminalize the procedure.

They are considering sweeping aside decades of policy and rethinking how the United States looks at trade with every country.

The fact that ever more people in Sacramento are considering sweeping reforms is a sign of how far Mr Schwarzenegger has moved the debate.

The E.U. is now considering sweeping new regulation of its chemical industry that has unleashed what analysts here say is the biggest lobbying effort in Brussels ever mounted by American industry.

Even as the United States remains deeply engaged in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the armed services are considering sweeping changes to decades-old Pentagon practices and ingrained military culture to prepare faster for any future war.

The Department of Agriculture is considering sweeping changes in its regulation of genetically engineered crops intended to cover more types of plants and insects to keep up with rapidly changing technology.

With all this in mind, the F.C.C. is considering sweeping away or greatly relaxing rules that limit how many television stations a company can own nationwide; that bar companies from owning a major television station and newspaper in the same town; and that limit the number of radio and television stations that companies can own in one market.

In 1994, when Congress was considering sweeping death penalty legislation, Attorney General Janet Reno said in a letter to a congressman who opposed the death penalty that the department was developing procedures that would allow for the disclosure of its capital prosecution decisions "so that the public can review and understand the basis for such decisions".