Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.
The first aim was, in the new spirit of socialism sweeping the land under Mitterrand, to demystify the impenetrable secrets of official France.
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 gives Cabinet ministers sweeping powers in designated emergencies including quarantine areas, restricting travel, handing control of essential industries to the army.
The first and as yet only British person to contract Ebola, he is back in Sierra Leone, two months after making a full recovery, to resume his role in the fight against the disease, which is now sweeping the capital.
Already, the authorities enjoy sweeping powers under a 2013 law to close down websites for advocating "extremist activities" or "participation in public events held in breach of appropriate procedures".
The Germans had picked up where they left off against England, their slick exchanges sweeping downfield as Argentinian players gasped in their vapour trails.
Surrounded by private security guards and accompanied by his 26-year old wife, Noor, Nadir touched down at Luton airport before sweeping into his new Mayfair base in London from where he promised to clear his name at the Old Bailey next month.
Black Lives Matter emerged as the most cohesive movement, with membership across the country and sweeping demands – if not exactly an organisational structure as familiar as establishment civil rights groups.
What Ashcroft's poll has confirmed is that there is a wave sweeping Scottish Labour.
Samsung is close to completing its palatial glass box in San Jose, Amazon is planning to bestow Seattle with a cluster of jungle-filled biospheres, while Google is reviving the 1970s dream of sweeping the world beneath an undulating transparent tent.
I suspect now that the "hysterical Italian" label embedded itself deeply into my psyche, forcing a kind of internal sweeping under the carpet to avoid accusations of exaggeration.
