The phrase "general sweep" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate when someone is doing an overall survey or review of something. For example: "We conducted a general sweep of the area to make sure nothing was overlooked."
Nigel Siederer, chief executive of the Association of Charitable Foundations, said that regulation should be on a contract basis, not a general sweep across the board.
Inside, he said, about two dozen members of the Special Operations forces conducted a general sweep and then came back to do a more detailed search, focusing on looking for underground hideouts.
Little has changed in the general sweep of the plot from Boccaccio.
Take 15 to 30 minutes at the end of the day to do a general sweep of your home, making sure that surfaces are clutter free and things are in their proper place.
The General swept in, a tall Anglicized officer, his trimmed mustache and the severe cut of his clothes reflecting a sense of purpose.
Emerging from obscurity in Corsica, the young general swept all before him, overthrew ancient and despotic regimes, put a reactionary Catholic church in its place, liberated the oppressed and imposed a modern legal code on vast swathes of Europe, albeit at the point of a sword.
The general swept to victory on Oct. 6 in an election boycotted by most of the opposition parties, but the Supreme Court's original judges ordered that the results not be officially confirmed until they had heard all challenges by other candidates.
Sensenbrenner pointed out that it seems like a double standard for the government to argue that it's necessary to use general sweeps of Americans' phone records to fight terrorism, and then to also say that the widespread collection isn't a problem because records aren't used.
It is also unclear why the men were picked up, though all the sources said the two had not been specifically targeted but were detained as part of a general security sweep.
This would imply that although there are continental-scale clusters or general selective sweeps, such as the non-Sub-Saharan African sweep, allele frequencies change gradually on small geographic scales.
Last August came a seismic shift, when the general election swept away the once-mighty LDP and installed the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in office.
