Sentence examples for a sweeping system from inspiring English sources

In 2013, Edward Snowden walked out of an N.S.A. facility in Hawaii with tens of thousands of records about American global electronic surveillance, including a sweeping system to monitor and store phone calls by millions of Americans.

Brazilian lawmakers are now weighing two bills that would shake things up, making four decades of American job-preferment policies pale by comparison.The Racial Quota Law and the Racial Equality Statute would create a sweeping system of racial preferences in universities, the civil service and the private sector.

That bill would rely on permission from Washington in order to establish a sweeping system that covers all Californians' healthcare costs, including those who would otherwise be on Medicare or Medi-Cal.

The earliest sweeping system, devised to clear anchored contact mines, consisted of two ships steaming across a minefield towing a wire rope between them; mine mooring lines were cut by sawlike projections on the sweep wire or by cutting jaws.

The special design of the beam sweeping system, enables both ion beams to scan the target surface simultaneously in synchronous mode, i.e. both ion spots are kept at coincident positions over the target.

The changes are mostly subtle, but from what we've heard recently, that's what's in store for iOS 7, too; sweeping, system-wide changes, but ones that tweak the interfaces rather than overhaul them completely.

In addition, the White House called on Congress to take at least seven steps, many already proposed in legislation since Congress approved a sweeping overhaul of the patent system in 2011.

But the bill does create a sweeping marriagelike system that allows the state to confer on same-sex couples virtually all of the more than 300 rights and responsibilities enjoyed by married couples, from health insurance benefits to inheritance rights.

The licenses would be a prized jewel: They are more prevalent than passports, and they have more regularly updated photos that can be fed into a sweeping surveillance system, to the alarm of privacy advocates.

However, this succinct post by Microsoft attempts to put all my Kinect paranoia to rest with a sweeping finality: "The system will navigate you through key privacy options, like automatic or manual sign in, privacy settings, and clear notifications about how data is used.

Had SB 901 imposed a sweeping new regulatory system on utilities before 2019, it would have left CPUC officials scrambling.