Sentence examples for a sweep that from inspiring English sources

The "goonies" subdomain may refer to Dixon St. Goonies, the name of a street gang that was heavily targeted in the massive sweep of drug dealers and gang members that ripped through Toronto in August—a sweep that included a raid on the house where the crack tape was filmed.

She moves with a sweep that creates a distance, an invisible moat between her and the other actors.

Seventy-one people have been convicted in a sweep that dwarfs the 1980s-era Wall Street scandals involving Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken.

Republicans say they hope to reclaim the House in 2010 with a sweep that would return the lost New York district to their column.

In a sweep that bodes well for her Oscar chances, Jessica Chastain – until this year a little-known Juilliard grad – won best supporting actress for not one but three performances, in "The Tree of Life," "The Help" and "Take Shelter".

This book is more ambitious, with a sweep that takes in not just American history, but also the making of modern China, Russia, India and the European Union, as well as Venezuela and Iran.

It had moments of beauty, but it was more noteworthy for being a surprise, a clean sweep that came out of the blue.

Altogether, the patterns of polymorphism and SFS suggest that age-1 is the direct target or is tightly linked to a target of a selective sweep that affects C. remanei on a global spatial scale.

Coates's writing in "Between the World and Me" has a stance and a rhetorical sweep that make the give-and-take of politics seem almost impossible.

We investigate a selective sweep that starts from a single copy of the selected allele.

Undercover officers rounded up 92 people in a prostitution sweep that included the arrests of a youth minister and a man on a honeymoon.