Sentence examples for a sweeping embargo from inspiring English sources
Efforts by the US government to press for change by imposing a sweeping embargo have proven to be a costly and misguided failure, Human Rights Watch said.
The proposal comes several years after deep fissures developed in the Security Council over the usefulness or ethical justification for the sweeping embargo that the Security Council imposed under the last Bush administration and which the Clinton administration demanded it keep in place.
But the current restoration of Babylon, begun in 1978 and interrupted by a sweeping international trade embargo against Iraq following its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, is receiving mixed reviews from experts on Middle East archeology.
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday moved to cement his administration's historic opening with Cuba by issuing a sweeping directive that will last beyond his presidency, setting forth a new United States policy to lift the Cold War trade embargo and end a half-century of clandestine plotting against Cuba's government.
In April of 1977, President Jimmy Carter proposed a sweeping series of measures to deal with the nation's ongoing energy crisis, itself a product of the 1973 OPEC oil embargo.
Outside, a sweeping mountain view.
A sweeping critique, indeed.
But they have a sweeping vision.
A sweeping novel of twentieth-century Poland.
"But it's not a sweeping statement".
