Sentence examples for a less sweeping from inspiring English sources

Perhaps a President McCain might have designed a less sweeping and less effective stimulus than President Obama did.

I would answer that, on health care, for example, where the public was truly divided and, by some polls, increasingly skeptical, the Senate Republicans should have tried to negotiate a less sweeping bill.

Perhaps a less sweeping law that did not try to take in television, radio, print and online outlets would have avoided suspicion that the government was seeking to control all media.

But with Davis negotiating the details of Brexit, and Fox in charge of international trade, the former mayor of London is likely to have a less sweeping role than his predecessors as foreign secretary.

The surprise announcement came as the city and Legal Aid lawyers appeared in court to settle a less sweeping but related issue: whether homeless families in shelters who refuse one appropriate apartment could be evicted.

Putting a fraud alert on your credit report is a less sweeping step that lets lenders know to do extra checking before issuing new credit in your name, and is usually a good idea if your Social Security number is compromised.

Some were skeptical about how well the rules would be enforced, saying that many dioceses had ignored provisions of a less-sweeping plan 10 years ago.

Representative Albert R. Wynn, a Maryland Democrat, who co-sponsored a far less sweeping alternative that would curb but not outlaw soft money, disagrees.

Even though Dr. Stallings's proof was in a sense less sweeping than Dr. Smale's, it applied to a slightly different version of the conjecture and employed different mathematical techniques.

The President's alternative bill is a bit less sweeping, but not by much.

In the Senate, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, and two Democrats, Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut and Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, have offered a proposal, less sweeping than Mr. Thomas's, that would relieve state and local groups of duplicative paperwork.