Sentence examples for sweeping context from inspiring English sources

Wood articulated the sweeping context in which Miliband felt he was operating: that the present decade was likely to be an era of ideological and political flux, akin to the 1970s.

If you're interested in sweeping historical context, you might want to check in on a Reuters story tracing Hollywood's relationship with gay subject matter.

Davis's defining work presents the gruesome realities behind George Mallory's pursuit of Mount Everest and puts the legend in sweeping historical context: from Britain's 19th-century imperial ambitions to the devastation of World War I.

In an article published in Monday's edition of Izvestia, Mr. Putin rejected the possibility of swift political change, casting himself in a sweeping historical context as the figure who could lead Russia through a "zone of turbulence" that was just beginning.

If it needs sweeping she'll sweep the floor.

Her book is indeed flawed: it rushes to sweeping judgments and fails to offer much context for the snippets of interviews she presents.

This feckless performance is all the more intolerable given the context of the history making democracy wave sweeping the Arab world.

"In that context, it powerfully expresses the feelings of a social movement that was sweeping Russia at the time it was written.

Critics also charge that these museums offer less historical context and material evidence or artifacts, relying instead on personal testimonies, multimedia displays, and sweeping summaries.

Legge et al (1996: 22) describe this context as "...a field of turbulent discourses; different problems, different analyses and different strategies sweeping across the policy field like storm clouds under time lapse photography" [ 49].

Of course, what made it newsworthy and even controversial was the context in which the line appeared, amid the political debate over the new barriers to voting that are sweeping the country, propelled by Republican governors and state legislatures.