Sentence examples for sweep would be from inspiring English sources

If he lost -- with his nation poised to celebrate one of its greatest sporting accomplishments ever -- the Kiwi sweep would be spoiled and it would be impossible to gauge the potential damage to the young sailor's psyche.

In the other categories, 10 points are awarded for first place in any bloc, 5 points for second and 1 point for third, so a sweep would be worth 30 points.

Mr. Boscovich said he did not think the Friday sweep would be as big a blow to Zeus as Microsoft's previous actions against botnets, but he said it was just the beginning of actions aimed at raising the cost of doing business for the botnet's masterminds.

The practical effect of upholding that broad sweep would be to hold the press liable for the conduct of its sources, a damaging departure from traditional legal and journalistic principles that allow the press to publish material its members obtain legally while holding the sources responsible for any illegalities they may have committed.

In favor of consistency with a selective sweep scenario, we may also mention that SLC2A4 is within a genomic region where LD is in general low (supplementary File S1), and therefore, the signature of natural selection determined by a selective sweep would be necessarily restricted to a small region.

Here, the sweep would be young enough for a quasi absence of younger coalescence than the multifurcated one produced by the sweep.

The ability to detect selection sweeps would be further hampered if selection was conducted on genetic variants already segregating in the population.

Thus, if a 50/50 coupler were used at the end of the buffering stage, the beginning and end of the buffered sweeps would be corrupted by the end and beginning the original sweep, and vice versa.

According to this scenario, gene-specific selective sweeps would be a general phenomenon because many, if not most, free-living prokaryotes are likely to evolve under NFDS caused, in particular, by the ubiquitous viruses [ 32].

In such a case, selective sweeps would be expected to affect the evolutionary pattern of Cyt b, but this conjecture was not supported by the neutral tests of our dataset which indicated that its patterns of variation were consistent with the hypothesis of neutrality.

Wariner, Otis Harris and Derrick Brew did not know the order the three would finish but they decided that in the event of a sweep there would be a sense of decorum.