The phrase "a sweeping response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a response that is broad, comprehensive, or covers a wide range of issues or topics.
Example: "The committee provided a sweeping response to the concerns raised by the community, addressing multiple issues in their report."
Alternatives: "a broad reply" or "a comprehensive answer."
That's just one sign of what the Association of American Universities says is a sweeping response by top schools.
EL ARISH, Egypt — President Mohamed Morsi fired his intelligence chief and other top security officials on Wednesday in a sweeping response by his new government to the killings of 16 soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula.
The UK is to expel 23 Russian diplomats, consider new laws to combat spying and look at sanctions as part of a sweeping response to the nerve agent attack in Salisbury, Theresa May has told parliament.
The Australian government has sought to downplay the prospect of a sweeping response to the video, with Tony Abbott claiming on Thursday it would be "foolish" for the government to make "policy on the run on the basis of one or two media reports".
FERGUSON, Mo. — Federal and state officials unveiled a sweeping response Thursday to violent clashes between police and protesters over the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, with Missouri taking over security operations from local police and authorities agreeing to accept Justice Department help in handling protests.
On Monday, prior to the arrest, there was a sweeping response to the attempted attack in the tourist-packed city-within-a-city of Times Square — including an increased police presence, vehicle inspections and a touch of panic from veteran New Yorkers when a manhole fire flared five blocks from the scene of the failed bombing.
But the destruction visited on Wall Street in the past week has dashed those aspirations and forced policymakers to consider a more sweeping response.
In response, Cardinal Egan said his critics were merely doing the bidding of the sexual abusers among them — a sweeping reaction that some priests said proved their complaints.
I realize this was an extreme and sweeping response, and that's kind of how we roll--maybe a bit unrealistic for most --yet there was still a big learning curve ahead.
While there is certainly cooperation among countries in their response to the financial crisis, don't count on a sweeping international response.
None of these trends prove the case against carbon taxation, but I would submit that they should at least nudge the position that a sweeping regulatory response to climate change occupies on the spectrum of American policy debates — toward a slightly left-of-center "4," perhaps?
