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LAPD officers used Tasers in more encounters in 2015 than in previous years, according to a sweeping use-of-force analysis the department published last month.

This led to the sweeping use of Schutzhaft—"protective custody", a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings.

The most sweeping use of the statute was in Iowa, after an immigration raid in May 2008 at a meatpacking plant in Postville.

And no one can be completely comfortable with this sort of sweeping use of the governor's right to pardon.

Expanding DNA swabbing to all those arrested in major felonies would be the most sweeping use of genetic testing by any state.

The administration's plan amounts to the most sweeping use of executive authority to rewrite federal education law since Washington expanded its involvement in education in the 1960s.

The All Writs Act does not support such sweeping use of judicial power, and the First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution forbid it.

As a genuine believer in democracy, is it wrong for me to want, expect some checks and balances over Obama's sweeping use of this lethal Executive power?

Mikhail has multiple attack types at his disposal: while on the ground, after Zero has mounted, the dragon can perform a sweeping attack using his wings and snap at them.

Sweeping, using an anionic bile acid surfactant and neutral γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) under alkaline conditions (pH 8), resulted in focusing and separation of the moderately hydrophobic (non-ionic) classes of steroids, such as androgen and corticosteroids.

And we should throw our newfound political will behind a sweeping commitment to use less gas — build cars that use less oil (or none at all) and figure out better ways to transport Americans.