At the same time, the United States government has become more and more willing to help, through sweeping bilateral treaties, legal assistance and recognition of foreign laws in American courts.
SAUDI ARABIA The government of King Abdullah announced an initiative that would provide Saudis with interest-free home loans, unemployment assistance and sweeping debt forgiveness.
Mexico's 47 consulates in the U.S., more than any other country has, facilitate the sweeping by issuing passports and offering assistance when Mexican immigrants run into trouble.
But Supporters Direct - which provides advice and assistance to supporters' trusts - insists neither sweeping reforms nor fresh legislation are needed for its recommendations to be met.
As HUD is poised to introduce "Transforming Rental Assistance" to Congress, an initiative aimed at sweeping reforms to public housing namely by opening it up to the private market, We Call These Projects Home comes at no better time.
Few aid officials believe that the American government will actually shut off the spigot of life-saving assistance to Somalia when a punishing drought is sweeping across the region.
Now, with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) sweeping through major Iraqi cities, the Obama administration is weighing increased military assistance — though not, the president emphasized Friday, combat forces — for a country that Americans thought we'd already left behind.
The bill did not promise sweeping changes or special exemptions for such students; like everyone else on public assistance, they, too, would be required to take workfare assignments to receive benefits.
Too often, Deasy's urgency meant that sweeping new policies were dumped in teachers' laps without the support, explanation and assistance needed to make them work.
