Sentence examples for sweeping arguments from inspiring English sources
Attorneys for the State of Colorado, in asking a judge to throw the suit out, said the sweeping arguments in favor of the legislative branch's role in society are too grand and too small at the same time.
In a quest for congressional support, the ever-cautious commander-in-chief found himself making sweeping arguments for moral interventions overseas, and hinting at tougher military action than he had previously planned.His own Democratic Party is split between left-wing doves and Obama loyalists.
The daylong hearing, sometimes tense, ranged from seemingly technical concerns like whether the warrant was stapled to the sealed affidavit prosecutors used to obtain it, to sweeping arguments over whether the affidavit itself was so broad as to violate the Fourth Amendment's guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure.
The chapter makes sweeping arguments regarding the role played by climatic change in 'increasing aridity and the expansion of deserts' (p. 9); it then attempts to link this to the melting glaciers of the East African Mountains.
Such are the perils of his sloppily constructed sweeping argument.
However persuasive this rather sweeping argument might sound in Williamsburg or London, it made little impression on the French officers.
Leaving aside that far more people voted for Clinton than Donald Trump (an inconvenient truth for any sweeping argument about why Clinton lost), the real issue is not that Clinton lost the election.
But even the appeals court seemed torn, and it rejected the government's sweeping argument that the courts have no role in reviewing the government's designation of an American citizen as an enemy combatant.
He portrayed it as "a sweeping argument against judicial review of targeted killing decisions".
Greatly surprising Mr. Gillespie and his colleagues, the court, in an opinion written by Louis D. Brandeis, an associate justice, not only found in favor of the railroad but also made the sweeping argument that the federal courts had, for decades, unconstitutionally encroached on the power of the states.
