Sentence examples for broadly sweeping from inspiring English sources

The FBI investigation is both broadly sweeping and intensely focused on detail, which is likely to frustrate anyone expecting instant answers.

The author of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" has written a broadly sweeping tale that opens in Shanghai in 1937.

Bost complained bitterly that lawmakers were being asked to vote on a broadly sweeping measure before they could read it.

Also for sale is O'Keeffe's "Antelope," a 1964 example of her bone motif, featuring an antelope skull against a broadly sweeping desert.

Experts predict the court's opinion will be written broadly, unlikely to stoke sweeping death penalty reforms.

The Odessa clashes spread the violence from the eastern separatist heartland to an area far from the Russian frontier, raising the prospect of unrest sweeping more broadly across a country of around 45 million people the size of France.

"That, to me, suggests that they are sweeping far more broadly than they need to to address the intentional discrimination under the Fifteenth Amendment" — which guarantees the right to vote regardless of race.

This is what stands out as most alarming about the new laws—how sweeping they are, broadly restricting the right to protest if these actions interfere with business, which is often the point.

Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, faces a widening revolt by the country's leading scientists against sweeping cuts to government research labs and broadly pro-industry policies.

They were paid up to £3 an hour less than council staff in male-dominated but broadly equivalent roles such as bin collecting and street sweeping.

Critics of the legislation say the imminent law gives Canadian spies sweeping new powers to investigate and disrupt broadly defined threats to public safety, with language that makes no distinction between terrorist plots and legitimate political protests and demonstrations.