The phrase "a sweeping undertaking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a project or task that is extensive, ambitious, or comprehensive in nature.
Example: "The organization launched a sweeping undertaking to improve community health services across the region."
Alternatives: "a broad initiative" or "a comprehensive project."
But there has been no talk of the newly elected Congress undertaking a sweeping investigation of the Bush administration's activities along the lines of the Church Committee.
South Africa is undertaking a sweeping effort to sell significant stakes in its biggest state-owned companies, but with labor balking at the scope of the effort, progress has been slow.
Johnson & Johnson has said that the company undertook a sweeping reorganization of its operations after the recalls and that it has invested more than $100 million in McNeil facilities.
President Vladimir V. Putin shook up his government, placing his closest confidant, Sergei B. Ivanov, at the Ministry of Defense to undertake a sweeping reform of the military and its sprawl of defense industries.
The delivery of asylum seeker healthcare and IHMS's role in the delivery of the contract is also the subject of a sweeping audit currently being undertaken by the Australian National Audit Office.
-- BILL VLASIC HEALTH CARE: An Overhaul Will Have to Wait Democrats' campaign rhetoric aside, few health care analysts expect the new president and Congress to undertake a sweeping overhaul of the health care industry any time soon.
As Congress prepares to undertake a sweeping overhaul that will change the face of financial regulation, the Senate panel also was hearing from groups representing state and industry securities regulators, hedge funds, investment advisers and consumers.
In an address to the governing Politburo delivered Tuesday and released by China's official news service on Wednesday, Mr. Hu said the Communist Party must undertake a "sweeping systemic project" to increase public participation in government and enforce the rule of law.
The destruction wrought by the country's massive civil war necessitated a sweeping program of reconstruction, which was largely undertaken by Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri following his appointment to the post after the 1992 parliamentary elections.
But a sweeping new study of the Web -- the largest ever undertaken -- paints a very different picture.
