Sentence examples for fairly sweeping from inspiring English sources

Yet even absent those provisions, Mr. Cuomo's proposal is fairly sweeping — intentionally so, his aides said.

The plan advances 11 proposals, some of them relatively minor but symbolically important and others fairly sweeping in scope.

His win was fairly sweeping demographically — somewhat less so geographically (he actually lost a majority of counties) — but overall about at the level of a candidate who might expect to win about 40 of the 50 states.

Short of these fairly sweeping aesthetic changes, it is unclear exactly what the Korean firm can do to battle Apple's growing position in the higher end of the smartphone market.

Richard L. Thornburgh, who was attorney general when the honest-services law was passed, said he expected the Supreme Court to issue "something fairly sweeping" since it had taken on so many honest-services cases.

Perhaps, for example, the claims that belong to public reason are only fairly sweeping ones that ascribe basic rights of various sorts but offer no guidance about how they should be weighed (see Quinn 1997, 149-52).

The relative percentages "will be fairly accurate, unless some sweeping changes happen," she said.

The film is somewhat jerky, but features a substantial property with a very green swimming pool and a fairly lingering shot of a worker dutifully sweeping the grounds.

The more game-oriented PlayStation 4 fares little better: the landscapes of Killzone: Shadow Fall are impressively sweeping, but I found the game to be a fairly boring shooter-by-numbers.

It has clean lines, high ceilings, enormous windows, sweeping views of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge and the city beyond, and it is fairly easy to get to, transportation being key to the blossoming of any tech hub.

Coffered triple-height ceilings, sweeping staircases, trophy rooms and intricately carved fireplaces big enough to consume tracts of the Amazon have become fairly standard features in gated communities from Florida to California.