Sentence examples for internet sweep from inspiring English sources

Further, the commission announced that it was planning a third annual Internet sweep to survey privacy practices on the Web.

Well, the SEC did its first Internet sweep last year, charging 44 online stock promoters with fraud.

Then the Internet swept in.

He watched as the internet swept across the world, ultimately vindicating him and his work.

Local newspapers once maintained a stranglehold on distribution of information and advertising to their customers — a stranglehold the Internet swept away.

As the Internet sweeps across the Pacific, Mr. Kwok believes technology will unleash the same frenzy of sudden wealth and disorienting change in Asia.

But despite the SEC's efforts, the practice continued to proliferate, prompting the SEC to take even stronger action in several Internet "sweeps,", one in October 1998 and another in February 1999.

They should set out their stall on Newsnight, much as any party leader or mayoral candidate would do before an election, and tell us about themselves and what they plan for the BBC at a time when the internet sweeps everything before it, money gets tighter and the government becomes ever more hostile.

The network also carries out joint market surveillance and enforcement activities (e.g. in the form of internet sweeps during which the authorities check websites to see whether they comply with the law).

"Initially, it was that the democratising potential of the internet would sweep old politics away - that we'd be voting on everything because the technology would allow us to," he says.

The S.E.C., announcing its fifth nationwide Internet fraud sweep, said the people accused used so-called spam e-mail messages, electronic newsletters, Web sites, hyperlinks, message boards and other Internet media in cases involving both publicly traded securities and privately held companies.