Sentence examples for sweep the changes from inspiring English sources

While it's impossible to sum up, in a broad sweep, the changes in art over the last five years, it's clear from the sheer quality and range of work in this exhibition that British art is currently in a healthy state.

Of course, Longbourn must have had someone to stable the horses, sweep the rooms and change the sheets.

On the dancefloor, the Twist – which had enjoyed a brief vogue among America's teens the previous summer – is enjoying a second coming that will sweep the world and change the way people move.

Meanwhile, the women's movement is grappling with ever-new problems as vast economic and social changes sweep the country while old mindsets steeped in patriarchy still prevail.

The postwar wave of independence that swept the world changed Washington's diplomatic scene.

They lubricated the old presses, swept the floors, changed the light bulbs and cleared the snow off the mill's 400,000 square foot roof even when the temperature dipped to 20 below zero.

Rooney grew up in a village reshaped by the cultural fallout of war, the last great wave of change to sweep the island.

Do the laundry, change the lightbulb, sweep the yard.

Ultimately, many observers believe, the army hopes to legitimate its rule by rigging a notionally democratic system in favour of its supporters, a tactic it first tried in 1990, only to have its plans backfire when the NLD swept the board.The biggest change since the previous ASEAN summit is the sacking of General Khin Nyunt, the former prime minister and cheerleader-in-chief for the road map.

It is not surprising that in a nation in which many whites are still unsettled by the changes that swept the country several years ago, this mea culpa has not been universally welcomed.

Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change swept the board in Epworth in March's elections.