Sentence examples for described sweeping from inspiring English sources

Over the past year, many from Chechnya have recounted similar stories, and described sweeping repression, relentless pressure and constant humiliation.

Andorra lay some 200km ahead and the road, describing sweeping switchbacks, was rising fast to meet the Pyrenees.

But a lack of knowledge of Mandarin, or of the give and take among Qi, Wei and the five other warring states, can be overcome if you have another qualification: a taste for florid melodrama and the type of period movie generally described as "sweeping".

The bill is widely described as sweeping in scope.

The bishop has apologized and released a "five-point plan" that he described as "sweeping changes".

The clipping described a sweeping new financial-aid program that the University of North Carolina had just announced.

Admiral Poindexter once described a sweeping electronic surveillance plan as a way of forestalling terrorism by tapping into computer databases to collect medical, travel, credit and financial records.

In announcing the arrangement at a surprise signing in the Russian resort town of Sochi, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin described a sweeping global alliance — and a potentially vast investment by Exxon in the Russian Arctic.

The update described the sweeping NSA program approvingly as merely collecting phone records "that pertain to persons who may be in communication with terrorist groups but are not already subject to an investigation".

He urged citizens to take to the streets and beat back the protesters, and he described himself in sweeping, megalomaniacal terms.

The new indictment issued last week revealed for the first time that all of the 63 fake art works at the heart of what prosecutors have described as a sweeping fraud scheme were created by a single artist, though they were sold as the works of Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and others.