Sentence examples for a sweeping resolution from inspiring English sources

Schumer touted statehood among his top three ways to bolster voting rights, a day before the House is expected to pass a sweeping resolution on the topic that includes a call to make the District the 51st state.

A sweeping resolution put forward for the next IWC meeting, beginning in Jersey a week on Monday, would radically revise the commission's procedures, some of which date from its founding in 1946, are regarded as lax and inadequate and "leave it open to accusations of malpractice," in the words of Britain's Fisheries minister, Richard Benyon.

Mr. Gonzales told the panel today that the N.S.A. eavesdropping program is authorized by the section of the Constitution pertaining to presidential powers; that Congress gave specific authority with a sweeping resolution shortly after 9/11; and that nothing in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act regulating electronic eavesdropping is meant to block the N.S.A. program.

Toward this end, the Bush administration has put together a draft resolution that essentially front-loads the requirements on Iraq Iraqq has to provide a sweeping declaration of its weapons of mass destruction program within 30 days before unrestricted inspections begin.

I hate to give a sweeping answer.

Barack Obama is to press the UN security council to pass a sweeping new resolution that would impose global travel bans on fighters intent on enlisting in overseas wars, and could lead to sanctions on countries that fail or refuse to implement the new regime.

Warren is among the more than 100 Democratic lawmakers who co-sponsored the Green New Deal, a sweeping climate resolution unveiled in February by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).

After failing to persuade House Democratic leaders to establish a select committee on a Green New Deal, she began work on a sweeping new resolution outlining a transformative policy to guarantee high-wage clean energy jobs to millions of Americans and upgrade the nation's crumbling infrastructure to withstand already-unavoidable extreme weather and sea level rise.

But a chorus of detractors, including some Democrats, have argued that the sweeping resolution contained many items only tangentially related to reducing climate-warming emissions or addressing their impacts.

But those hoping for burning rhetoric, sweeping resolutions or even clear plans were probably disappointed.

It's easy to get caught up in sweeping resolutions, such as to lose 50 pounds or go jogging every morning.