Sentence examples for single swoop from inspiring English sources

Being stripped of two Michelin stars in a single swoop is not just relegation, it's humiliation.

Formally, his latest series cuts loose, introducing bright color, legible images and animated marks in a single swoop.

The arrests form the biggest single swoop yet by the Met police in its ongoing investigation into alleged voicemail interception.

In 2013 the number of Italian women MPs leapt from 22%to32%2%, taking Italy from 63rd to 34th in a single swoop.

EVERYBODY loves a fireman, especially those saviours from the sky who swoop down in yellow-painted Canadair planes and "bomb" fires with six tonnes of water in a single swoop.

While free, mainstream television networks operated by companies like ITV, TF1 and RTL — the European equivalents of ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox — have seen their audience figures slide, they still provide advertisers with the best hope of reaching a mass audience in a single swoop, at the lowest possible cost, analysts say.

A single swooping Steadicam shot follows the couple from the street downstairs, through the corridors and the kitchen, and surfaces with them in the swank and velvety air of the night club.

Blakely told him she had learned from watching her husband that men remove their undershirts with a single, swooping gesture: hooking their arms behind their necks and lifting up from the neck band, rather than wriggling out of them arm by arm, as women do.

Marc Anthony strolled onstage as Mr. Jean and Claudette Ortiz were breezing through "Guantanamera" and devastated everyone with a single vocal swoop.

But the finance ministry says that it has no intention of abandoning its gradual liberalization policy for a single big swoop.

If successful, the change would alter a measure that was approved twice by voters and that in a single, historic swoop remade local government, replacing more than two-thirds of the City Council with newcomers and all of the top elected officials in the city.