Sentence examples for sweep the matter from inspiring English sources
Given the subsequent outcome of the Tyson case, is it any wonder that Wal-Mart executives' first reaction would have been to sweep the matter under the rug?
Two congregations, Beth Aaron in Teaneck and Ohay Emeth in Highland Park, suspended their membership in the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, known as the Orthodox Union, to send officials a message that they should not just sweep the matter of Rabbi Baruch Lanner under the table, congregation officials said.
James's parents, Des and Doreen James, described Ainsworth's statement today as "another in a long line of disingenuous activities by this government designed more to sweep the matter away as old news rather than face up to their moral and legal obligations regarding these four young people".
When Erin, whom Michael and Mary have never met, shows up to the family home with Joel, it's a moment straight out of "Get Out," but, unlike Jordan Peele, that film's director, Jacobs sweeps the matter of race, along with all other traits, under the rug.
In both marine and freshwater species, ciliary water currents sweep the excreted matter out of the mantle cavity.
But given the extent to which other agencies of government — specifically the Federal Reserve and the Treasury — want the Merrill bonus furor to just go away, it is easy to suspect that the S.E.C., too, was trying to sweep the whole matter under the rug.
According to a story in Saturday's Times, toward the end of October, the shirtless and obsessed F.B.I. agent, fearing that his bosses were going to sweep the Petraeus-Broadwell matter under the rug, told some of what he knew to a Republican congressman from Washington state, David Reichert, who informed Eric Cantor, the House Majority Leader.
Sweep the floor thoroughly to remove all loose surface matter.
To sweep the clouds away?
