Sentence examples for sweeping amounts from inspiring English sources

"I represent a very reasonable district in suburban Philadelphia, and my constituents are expressing a growing concern on the sweeping amounts of data that the government is compiling," said Representative Michael G. Fitzpatrick, a moderate Republican who represents one of the few true swing districts left in the House and who voted on Wednesday to limit N.S.A. surveillance.

Take a pressed powder bronzer and a fluffy brush and apply small, sweeping amounts of bronzer to your forehead, cheek bones, the bridge of your nose, and your chin.

Bill C-377, which makes a number of technical amendments to Canada's Income Tax Act, essentially slaps new requirements on any labor organization, requiring them to disclose a sweeping amount of information.

After a high peak in all the CSOR curves at very early time showing the duration of the wells communication establishment, all falls sharply to their nadir owing to the early expansion of the steam chamber in the reservoir sweeping large amount of oil.

But analysts tend to do better when they avoid the kind of evidence-free sweeping generalization that amounts to little more than a just-so story, particularly when it's a just-so story about the future.

The snooper's charter was blocked by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, after a joint parliamentary committee – which included a former cabinet secretary and was chaired by a Tory ex-Home Office minister – concluded that its provisions were so sweeping that they amounted to "overkill", and a better balance was needed between security and privacy.

The in situ generated microemulsion is assumed to disseminate toward the producing well by sweeping a significant amount of oil in the reservoir.

To remove these symbols, they say, amounts to sweeping history under the rug.

In practice, the necessary revisions to Lewis's account are not very sweeping, since they basically amount to excising clause (4) from his conceptual analysis.

In December 1816 rapidly thawing snow caused the river to flood, sweeping away a considerable amount of property including building materials and livestock.

The majority of paramilitary raids take place in Karachi's ethnically tribal slums and amount to sweeping entire neighborhoods mostly filled with refugees from the the same tribal areas, where Army officials fear TTP are hiding in plain sight.