Mr. Abbott said Labor's inability to gain a clear majority after sweeping to power in 2007 with a 13-seat advantage meant that the government had "lost its legitimacy".
★ Darcy James Argue's Secret Society / Escort (Saturday) A composer who understands the grainy particulars behind a sweeping gesture, Mr. Argue has been gaining steep momentum recently with the Secret Society, his flagship orchestra.
Outside, a sweeping mountain view.
As sparkling as it must have been on opening day in 1913, the terminal has gained sweeping vistas and useful pathways that its original designers could only have imagined.
Critics call this scaremongering and fear that the White House will gain unnecessarily sweeping powers.
For the ECB to gain the sweeping new powers,including that to grant and withdraw banking licenses in the eurozone, all 27 EU governments must agree, giving the UK a veto if they fail to force concessions.
Some education experts say that Mr. Bloomberg's failure to gain more sweeping changes in work rules will limit his ability to improve instruction for the city's 1.1 million children in public schools, even with the recent agreement by state legislative leaders giving the mayor political control of the schools system.
Eight years ago, on a promise of sweeping change and optimism, we elected Barack Obama, took back the House, gained a supermajority in the Senate.
Most of the gains came from a sweeping rebound of U.S. equities: the S&P 500 rose nearly 30% in 2013, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 25%.
Republicans, seizing on the deficit-cutting mantra they heard from the voters who helped them gain sweeping control of the House in 2010, spent much of the last year successfully pushing for vast spending cuts and maintaining the Bush-era tax cuts for all Americans, including the wealthy.
