"I represent a very reasonable district in suburban Philadelphia, and my constituents are expressing a growing concern on the sweeping amounts of data that the government is compiling," said Representative Michael G. Fitzpatrick, a moderate Republican who represents one of the few true swing districts left in the House and who voted on Wednesday to limit N.S.A. surveillance.
Take a pressed powder bronzer and a fluffy brush and apply small, sweeping amounts of bronzer to your forehead, cheek bones, the bridge of your nose, and your chin.
The report recommends 133 remedial measures that would amount to a sweeping intervention.
The Guardian has also learned that the Department for Education is investigating options to radically restructure Birmingham's state schools in what would amount to a sweeping, city-wide shake-up of England's largest local authority.
It hardly amounts to a sweeping mandate for the winner — or signals a healthy level of voter engagement.
But the setbacks have also focused attention on issues of competence and whether the government is failing to adequately execute what amounts to a sweeping counterinsurgency effort.
The moves amounted to a sweeping and apparently unprecedented attempt by the Federal Reserve to rescue the nation's financial markets from what officials feared could be a chain reaction of defaults.
Overall, the report amounts to a sweeping proposal to create a highly mobile, more professional army adapted to crisis management missions beyond Germany's borders rather than the former static role of defense against Soviet divisions.
One critic, Mayor David Kapell of Greenport, said the new rules would discourage developers, did little to create affordable housing and amounted to a sweeping up-zoning that was accomplished without actually changing zoning at all.
Police officers must get a warrant before searching the contents of a cell phone seized during an arrest, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, an opinion that amounts to a sweeping endorsement of digital privacy.
