Sentence examples for has been swept from from inspiring English sources

But now that Pittsburgh has been swept from the playoffs by the Boston Bruins, the unimaginable could be on the Penguins' off-season agenda.

Labor has been swept from office after 16 years of government in Tasmania, with Liberal leader Will Hodgman comfortably elected the state's premier.

Many of his MPs had been shocked at the speed with which he has been swept from power since the public unexpectedly voted to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum.

Next week, after the confetti from Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebration has been swept from the streets of London, more than 100 scholars will convene at Kensington Palace to ponder a phenomenon as puzzling as it is familiar: the robust survival of the British monarchy in a democratic age that long ago consigned similar institutions to the gilded dustbin of history.

His party was an outstanding victor, apparently profiting from the votes of those who remain disillusioned with Mr Berlusconi yet want to register a protest against the outgoing government of Romano Prodi.The outstanding loser is the far left, represented by a Marxist-Green alliance that has been swept from parliament.

With the military now in control, he seems to have been swept from power along with President Hosni Mubarak.

Eleven of the euro zone's 17 leaders have been swept from office since the debt troubles began in 2009.

I wondered in Nehru Place about the social side of this question, since Indian cities have been swept from time to time by waves of ethnic and religious violence.

The apartheid laws that separated the races for decades have been swept from the books, but the divisions they engendered still define the ballot box.

If the uproar had not prompted her allies to back down, she might have been swept from office by a "people power" uprising, as was her predecessor, Joseph Estrada, in 2001.Her proposal to change the constitution was, in itself, not unreasonable.

After numerous setbacks, the mood at next week's conference will be far less heady than it was ten years ago, just after al-Qaeda's Taliban hosts had been swept from power.