Sentence examples for state sweep from inspiring English sources

In September, I spent a few days following Power in the throes of "high-level week" at the General Assembly, when heads of state sweep in to speak, if not always to act, in a spirit of collaboration.

While the vote won't be finalized for at least a week, we believe Democrats can look forward to a full state sweep.

Arrested in 1955 as the atheist Chinese state swept away Christianity, and not fully freed until 1982, he walked a tightrope for the rest of his life, trying to balance the interests of Beijing and Rome.

It was the Cuban missile crisis of the 19th century, Mr Stahr writes, with a touch of overstatement.The drama of events during Seward's eight years as secretary of state sweeps the tale along.

Recapturing Ramadi, which fell to the militants in May, would be one of the most important victories achieved by Iraq's armed forces since Islamic State swept across a third of the country in 2014.

Nixon's 49-state sweep in 1972 had not diminished the Democratic majority.

Instead, Mr. McCain's two-state sweep quashed any notion among Republicans that Mr. Bush is now their invincible nominee.

Federal agents trying to arrest two members of the Outlaws motorcycle gang as part of a seven-state sweep shot and killed one of them in a gunfight on Tuesday in Old Orchard Beach.

But the headline of the continuation, raising the possibility that Governor Bush might have to "survive" a "5-State Sweep by McCain," reflected a comment by only one person quoted in the article and exceeded the article's emphasis and conclusions.

On Tuesday night, Trump, basking after a five-state sweep, derided Clinton for playing the "woman card" and taunted her by claiming that if she were a man she would not even win "5% of the vote".

Mr. Kerry's hope for a 10-state sweep was frustrated not by Mr. Edwards but by Howard Dean, his onetime nemesis, who finally won his first primary, in Vermont, his home state, two weeks after he withdrew from the race.