The phrase "a sweeping step" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant or comprehensive action taken to address a situation or achieve a goal.
Example: "The organization took a sweeping step towards sustainability by implementing a new recycling program across all departments."
Alternatives: "a bold move" or "a major action".
Though the government has proclaimed the law's repeal on Thursday as a sweeping step, the past few days have proven some of the bloodiest and most repressive since the uprising began.
In our device, a ~ 1 V counter-clockwise hysteresis loop window was observed with conductance changes of more than five orders of magnitude at high and low conductance states when sweeping the back-gate voltage from +5 to −5 V and back to +5 V, with a sweeping step of 0.1 V at V ds = 0.1 V in an ambient environment.
The channel transfer functions (CTFs) of the propagation channel have been measured in a frequency sweep mode with a total frequency bandwidth of 1024 MHz and a frequency sweeping step fixed to 4 MHz, leading to an excess relative delay τ max of 250 ns.
Though many residents objected to the agreement as a seizure of city control, Gov. Rick Snyder could have chosen a more sweeping step under Michigan law and called for an emergency manager to take over many of the powers of the local officials, as well as the ability to throw out existing labor contracts.
Putting a fraud alert on your credit report is a less sweeping step that lets lenders know to do extra checking before issuing new credit in your name, and is usually a good idea if your Social Security number is compromised.
"Spurred by several accidents at federal laboratories involving risky pathogens, the White House [Thursday] announced a sweeping set of steps aimed at shoring up biosafety and biosecurity procedures.
Spurred by several accidents at federal laboratories involving risky pathogens, the White House today announced a sweeping set of steps aimed at shoring up biosafety and biosecurity procedures.
Today the Giants (12-4) thek the sweeping step from division winner -- something they have done a number of times -- to the No. 1 playoff seeding in the pursuit of a Super Bowl berth.
The above "sweeping" step should keep out multiple use chromatographic support, such as liquid chromatography columns, due to their inherent characteristics and capability to retain impurities.
But the style was the same: Italianate, after Palladio, with a central portico, sweeping steps, and all the features of fashionable 18th-century architecture, such as large sash windows.
A splendid structure of sweeping steps and marching columns, it evokes the Station that is no more.
