Sentence examples for sweeping act from inspiring English sources

By Andy Borowitz January 10 ,2017 MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report) — In a sweeping act of official censorship, the Russian government has banned all Meryl Streep movies from the country, effective immediately.

The sweeping act would have given companies that claimed their intellectual property was being infringed the power to request court orders to forbid advertising networks such as Google, as well as payment facilities, from conducting business with infringing sites.

I just thrived off the tales where everything came together in one sweeping act of serendipity.

It was a sweeping act, a makeover of much of American society.

The opera is structured in two long, sweeping acts.

I'm proud to say I don't find him to be a particularly relatable individual for me, but it's terribly fun to play such a wicked character!" Set in three sweeping acts, Le Corsaire is both regal and explosive.

The sweeping immigration act of 1996 and legislation enacted after the bombing of the World Trade Center have contributed to the increase in the number of immigrants detained either for past criminal offenses or for entering the country illegally.

This is interstate travel and conspiracy, and also a violation of California's own sweeping Animal Enterprise Protection Act and other laws prohibiting trespassing on, filming in, or otherwise documenting the operations of a factory farm.

Ms. Ananiashvili seemed uncomfortable as Hanna, though her sweeping first-act entrance was a treat.

That is the section of America's Patriot Act of 2001 that gives the Treasury sweeping powers to act against those who facilitate financial crime, anywhere in the world, by labelling them a "primary money-laundering concern".

Come January, if Congress fails to act, sweeping federal tax increases will hit in what is not at all affectionately nicknamed in Washington "taxmageddon".