Sentence examples for sweep this issue from inspiring English sources

"The Vatican is simply trying to sweep this issue under the carpet, but it won't solve the problem".

"They're trying to sweep this issue under the carpet," said Kenna Crichton, whose brother Ewan McDonald killed himself after three suicide attempts.

"I don't think there is any room in America in this day and age for people to try to sweep the issue of race under the rug," he said.

Ken Clarke said in June that "it is no good trying to sweep the issue from the field".

Abbott has used his first year in power to negate this image as a climate change denier, not so much by aggressively supporting the overwhelming science, but by attempting to sweep the issue off the agenda entirely.

In much of the emerging world leaders would rather sweep the issue of inequality under the carpet: witness China's nervous embarrassment about the excesses of Ferrari-driving princelings, or India's refusal to tackle corruption.In this section True Progressivism A European mega-merger?

But we must add to this conversation a discussion of men and violence, and we can no longer sweep that issue under the rug.

It would seem that the mostly Republican crowd and their candidate were happy to sweep the issue under the rug.

However, it's important not to use that time to sweep the issue under the rug but actually discuss it later.

The White House was hoping that the president's impromptu address of the Skip Gates saga on Friday would effectively sweep the issue under the rug.

The Senators now endorsing him (see below) all agree that his remark about "legitimate rape" was "unacceptable" -- but they use an apology as an effort to sweep the issue under the rug.