Sentence examples for a sweeping tide from inspiring English sources

There is, as yet, no evidence of a sweeping tide of freedom and democracy through the Middle East.

On the Supreme Court today, there is no justice who seems similarly placed there to speak for the powerless by such a sweeping tide of history.

It was the English game of baseball, Block suggests, that had arrived in America as part of "a sweeping tide of cultural migration" during the colonial period.

There is a sweeping tide of history which is the yearning for equality and the spirit of achievement by women in America and throughout the world.

MSNBC's Chris Matthews declared Tuesday's national vote a "wave election" where Republican victories were not isolated events but part of a large, sweeping tide.

But the visitors' log that would have given a more precise number was lost in the sweeping tide, a spokesman for the Ouachita National Forest said.

The financial crisis left huge numbers of financiers, traders, brokers, investment-wizards and hedge-fund fixers dazed by the sweeping tide of a storm for which they lacked the understanding and breadth of ideas to predict, let alone combat.

Supporting Hillary means pacing myself within a sweeping populist tide born out of justified rage over economic inequality.

WHILE visiting Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century, Henry James wondered how the sweeping tide of immigrants would ultimately affect "the idea of" America.

Embracing rather than resisting the sweeping tide of anti-Communism in the 1940s and '50s, the studios invented the blacklist, and virtually invited the House Committee on Un-American Activities — another form of mob intimidation — to investigate their own writers.

It's pretty hard to fight the sweeping tide of cellphone selfie-taking per se.