Sentence examples for has swept aside from inspiring English sources

Since the 1980s a wave of "people-power" revolutions has swept aside tyrannies around the world.

"It has swept aside the pay review body's recommendations and ignored the union's call for a fair deal.

But in a cultural shift that has swept aside centuries of tradition, credit cards have become commonplace here.

After 15 years of civil war and no government, an Islamist army has swept aside warlords and firmly asserted its control.

For various reasons, the spread of no-can-do limits has swept aside the optimism with which Americans met the initial challenges of the space age.

The anti-tax Tea Party movement has swept aside numerous mainstream Republicans in favour of more right-wing candidates, with uncertain consequences for the party's fortunes in November.

It had swept aside all proposals for mediation until events had gained irreversible momentum.

Four bowlers have swept aside some of the world's most formidable batsmen in the past two years.

Having swept aside all challengers, Ted Cruz, the conservative from Texas, was sure who deserved the praise.

The Beatles were said to have swept aside the prefab pop of the early sixties, which happened to include some of the great early Motown songs.

In the Middle East and North Africa, where subsidies for oil and natural gas are among the most generous in the world, popular uprisings have swept aside old regimes.