Sentence examples for getting sweeping from inspiring English sources

For more than two hours we trekked up and up (and up) the rigorous Lawn Lake Trail, ducking around jutting boulders, paralleling clear-water brooks and getting sweeping views of meadows, moraines and forests, some lush and alive and others brown and decimated by the current mountain pine beetle epidemic.

By gaining control of the schools -- which will take years to turn around, by his own admission -- getting sweeping antismoking legislation through the Council and balancing the city's budget at a time of great fiscal distress, Mr. Bloomberg has left many impressed with his first year.

Malaysia's prime pinister Najib Razak is to get sweeping security powers amid planned protests calling for his resignation over allegations that millions of dollars from a state fund wound up in his personal bank account.

Proposition 31 would upset the balance of power in Sacramento in favor of the governor, who would get sweeping new authority to impose selective midyear budget cuts if expected revenues failed to materialize.

Small children don't need to imitate us pushing buttons or staring at a light source; they need to imitate us getting dressed, sweeping the floor and empathizing with others.

137th over: India 366-5 (Yuvraj 17, Dhoni 11) Here's Monty Panesar, who gets the Barmy Army chanting, but gets Yuvraj sweeping imperiously from way outside off speeding over the leg-side boundary.

The women curlers of Canada and Great Britain will get cxracking, sweeping and sliding in a few minutes.

Swann pinned him down; almost had him lbw; found a leading edge; got Smith sweeping (he prefers not to, I think).

So we get big, sweeping phrases juxtaposed against each other, the dancers often staying low to the ground in deep squats and making much of pelvic undulations, like backup dancers in a music video, and employing a range of big, aggressive arm gestures, chin tilts and shoulder hunches.

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Wise management of wetlands is thus an urgent imperative that merits all the attention it can get, but sweeping statements about their universal value to mitigate disaster can do more harm than good.