Egypt's ruling military council has blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for raising tensions by releasing presidential election results early and insisted its recent decisions that granted the generals sweeping powers were necessary for running the country.
An 11th-hour constitutional declaration issued unilaterally by Scaf awarded the generals sweeping powers including the right to put forward legislation and an effective veto over clauses in the new constitution, and formalised the army's ability to detain civilians and sweep out of barracks at moments of "internal unrest".
The charges against Mr Chaudhry, which were heard by judges behind closed doors on March 13th, are believed to include abuse of office and other kinds of misconduct.A wave of sympathy for the judge, and antipathy towards the general, is sweeping the country.
There is a general malaise sweeping the nation.
General cleaning, sweeping, vacuuming, dusting, laundry for the adults of the house, grocery shopping, cooking evening and weekend meals, doing the dishes, scrubbing toilets, balancing the checkbook and on and on and on.
I'd say, as a general rule, that sweeping generalizations about what constitutes an acceptable family are bad news for kids.
But the Commission is not given such sweeping general powers as in the Coal and Steel Community.
Separately, the administrator of BP's $20bn£12.3bnbn) Gulf spill compensation fund was accused by Mississippi's attorney general, Jim Hood, of "sweeping deficiencies and violations of law".
Separately, the administrator of BP's $20bn£12.3bnbn) Gulf spill compensation fund was accused last night by Mississippi's attorney general, Jim Hood, of "sweeping deficiencies and violations of law".
