Sentence examples for more sweeping plans from inspiring English sources

But it abandoned more sweeping plans to allow private investment in exploration and production in the face of strong political opposition.

Slower auto production last month contributed significantly to a sharp decline in manufacturing activity, however, and Chrysler is now joining Ford and G.M. in announcing much more sweeping plans to idle factories temporarily this month.

Senator Hatch had earlier supported an individual insurance mandate as an alternative to a more sweeping plan championed by Hillary Clinton.

The committee members say there has been a political shift since the Obama administration and Congress failed to come up with a more sweeping plan to deal with the nation's debt, lending more urgency to their work.

Mr. Paterson, in his State of the State address last week, proposed a far more sweeping plan that would centralize ethics enforcement in Albany with a single independent commission responsible for enforcing the state's campaign finance and ethics laws.

While Mr. Bush rejected a more sweeping plan that would have given the new department much more far-reaching powers by putting a secretary of homeland defense directly in charge of F.B.I. agents and National Guardsmen alike, he clearly felt compelled to act after the intelligence apparatus failed so spectacularly last summer.

Or they may decide to unveil a more sweeping bailout plan for weaker nations, with the help of the Continent's better-off nations.

Some communities take a more sweeping urban planning-based approach.

He repeated several times that his support for Governor Bush did not alter or diminish his commitment to an overhaul of campaign funding laws that was more sweeping than the plan favored by Mr. Bush.

It also demands changes in building codes.Mike's dykeMany of its ideas were incorporated into a more sweeping post-Sandy plan released on June 11th, which calls for floodwalls and levees to protect vital infrastructure, such as a food-distribution centre in the Bronx and hospitals on Manhattan's East Side, and coastal communities on Staten Island.

Its core principles were dreamed up in a conservative think tank in the 1990s as a way to counter the far more sweeping health-care plan pushed by President Bill Clinton.