Sentence examples for sweeping action from inspiring English sources

Some of the President's requests were for sweeping action.

The combination of in-the-trenches fighting and sweeping action sequences with huge creatures, vehicles and environmental catastrophes (including entire cities collapsing into sinkholes) was engrossing.

In other ways, he has added far more energy to the process and spoken out more frequently and fervently in public about the need for sweeping action.

But as in his previous statements, Mr. Wen gave scant indication of what political change might entail, and made it clear that what he called China's "socialist democracy" would evolve in baby steps rather than by sweeping action.

When there is "constant pressure to act," he said, it is harder for a president — or, for that matter, his host, Chancellor Angela Merkel — to shape events and lay down guidelines for sweeping action.

Lisa P. Jackson is stepping down as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency after a four-year tenure that began with high hopes of sweeping action to address climate change and other environmental ills but ended with a series of rear-guard actions to defend the agency against challenges from industry, Republicans in Congress and, at times, the Obama White House.

The international community appeared to be considering a response that would punish Assad for deploying deadly gases, not sweeping actions aimed at ousting Assad or strengthening rebel forces.

The University of California announced sweeping actions Wednesday to protect its students who came into the country illegally, saying it would refuse to assist federal immigration agents, turn over confidential records without court orders or supply information for any national registry based on race, national origin or religion.

As the legal basis for his sweeping actions, the general cited a May 2000 Supreme Court ruling granting him the right to amend the Constitution.

Indeed, the F.A.A. said it had already issued 37 directives to operators of a variety of aircraft models in the wake of the crash, the most sweeping actions in its history, according to the agency.

Six current and former Ernst partners, including Randy G. Fletchall, the partner in charge of the firm's national office, were also sanctioned by the commission in one of its most sweeping actions against auditors involved in a failed audit.