Sentence examples similar to sweeping concepts from inspiring English sources

When relied on "to support some exertion of federal control or regulation," the Commerce Clause permits "a very sweeping concept" of commerce.

For a few years before and after the first world war, it became a kind of movement concept, sweeping across Europe like a craze or a plague.

The concept is sweeping across the most populous state two years after the District of Columbia adopted a 5-cent charge for paper and plastic.

The resistance movement began in the 1940s and intensified in the 1950s and '60s, when civil rights as a concept was sweeping the globe, but it was forced underground as most of its leaders were imprisoned, and it did not regain strength until the 1980s.

A new concept was then sweeping Britain: the "teenager".

Talk to any corporate information technology manager and you'll get an earful about virtualization, an ultra-geeky technology concept that's sweeping the business world.

But the study involved too few children to definitively prove the concept and justify sweeping conclusions.

The United States was in a very deep depression, and the concept of economic planning was sweeping the world.

For Mr. Mayne, the concept is the megastructure, a sweeping, usually horizontal building much favored by progressive architects in the 1960's.

A challenge to the tide of rock and roll that was sweeping over America, it's a loose concept record about a man who leaves his lover and pursues a new romance.

The Arrow "impossibility theorem" ricocheted around the social sciences, noteworthy for its use of abstract mathematical concepts to generate a conclusion of sweeping applicability.