This in no way suggests that William H. Gates and his $14 billion company are in any immediate danger of being swept away.
As unrest sweeps the immediate region — with protests in Egypt, stalled negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, and civil strife in Syria and Iraq — Jordan finds itself in a precarious position.
Kvitova moved ahead with an immediate break when she swept a forehand winner across court, but Safarova found her feet quickly and made it 2-2 with a backhand into the corner.
For his part, Wright-Phillips looks back in the flow of things, and from the moment he darted onto Sacha Kljestan's exquisite through ball to the immediate touch that saw him sweep the ball under Joe Bendik in the 19th minute, he looked certain to score.
The boy's case was declared a dental emergency; his mother was called, and he was swept away for immediate care to a designated "dentist in action" with an office nearby.
Now the immediate priority is to avoid a sweep, a goal made tougher by Stoudemire's ailing back and Chauncey Billups's injured knee.
Quadrant analysis revealed elevated frequencies of Q2 (ejection) and Q4 (sweep) events in the immediate lee of the patch, which contributed to the observed high levels of shear stress.
Then, once the panic has subsided, I get swept up in the immediate regret of letting someone else know about my phobia.
The immediate cause was a sex scandal that swept through the Klan in the early months of 1925.
After months of war talk, Bush's bravado has not swept the country beyond his immediate base.
In the Swat Valley, for example, all 59 bridges were swept away, hampering not just immediate relief efforts, but also the eventual resumption of commerce.
