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Egypt responded by launching a sweeping operation in the Sinai peninsula, using tanks and troops.

Now the carmaker is launching a sweeping review of its marketing efforts worldwide.Although Chevrolet is now cruising along, America's car market is stalling.

It means launching a sweeping effort to address the foreclosure crisis so that we can keep responsible families in their homes.

Brown started and finished the move, winning the ball from Robson outside his own box and launching a sweeping attack.

The Justice Department (DoJ) is launching a sweeping investigation into the Ferguson police department, Attorney General Eric Holder announced today.

As usual the Military Council has applied a double standard, exempting its friends the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis from any oversight while launching a sweeping attack on civil society organizations, accusing them of creating chaos and of a plan to divide Egypt into five small states.

Months later, in summer 2009, the Pakistani Army launched a sweeping operation against the Taliban that uprooted an estimated 1.2 million Swat residents.

A government offensive against China's "weiquan" or "rights defence" movement began on 9 July last year when police launched a sweeping round up of respected civil rights lawyers including Wang Yu, Wang Quanzhang and Zhou Shifeng.

He held an unusual televised meeting with drivers, but later launched a sweeping anti-mafia campaign that resulted in a wealthy businessman accused of organising the strike being sentenced to 20 years in prison for gangsterism and disrupting transport.Supporters of the Guangdong model also point to the greater leeway Mr Wang has given NGOs, which are heavily circumscribed in China.

Either way the job of being a Chinese official seems to be rather too stressful for some, and especially so since Xi Jinping became Communist Party leader in 2012 and launched a sweeping anti-corruption campaign that appears to have lost none of its intensity.

The city counted 7,499 homeless people among its ranks last year, a number that has actually fallen by thirteen per cent since 2004, when San Francisco, under a new mayor, Gavin Newsom, launched a sweeping "Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness". "San Francisco has doubled the money it spends on homelessness and the street population has fallen," the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in June.