Sentence examples for sweep nearly from inspiring English sources

The 83-year-old group can afford to let noisy secular rivals scrap with mulish ruling generals because its own front, the Freedom and Justice Party, along with some smaller partners, looks poised to sweep nearly half the seats in parliament's lower house.

Massive protests last fall ended with a violent government crackdown, and countrywide mayoral elections in December saw members of Maduro's ruling party sweep nearly every open seat.

In Arizona, Mr. Romney swept nearly all voting blocs.

The reformist tide swept nearly every conservative incumbent out of office.

In Massachusetts and Georgia, the hometown candidates swept nearly all groups of voters, and there were no significant differences among income groups.

The Aftermath Indeed, three months after the sweeps, nearly everyone agrees that the fabric of this community has changed.

LAST week, anti-Japanese protests swept nearly a dozen Chinese cities. Angry demonstrators overturned Toyotas while Japanese restaurants and businesses were vandalized.

This is clearly what happened in the case of the student disciplinary process, which was once housed in the 32 district offices that were swept nearly clean of staff in the consolidation plan.

The victory by Luis Acosta, a former general, in the tight race against the incumbent, Henrique Salas, means that Mr. Chávez's allies swept nearly all the opposition candidates from important offices.

And even for all their admiration of F.D.R., historians are quick to point out that soon after he had swept nearly every state in being elected to a second term, he tried to upend the constitutional separation of powers with a proposal to allow him to pack the Supreme Court by appointing up to six new justices (Congress wouldn't let him).

It has been a magical awards season for Portman, who had swept nearly every honor she was nominated for, and she has glowed every step of the way: Pregnant, Portman met her now fiance on set.