The traditional wiretap or electronic eavesdropping device constitutes a dragnet, sweeping in all conversations within its scope -- without regard to the participants or the nature of the conversations.
"Where the heck is that dustpan?" said the witch, Lady Rhea, 60, a Wiccan high priestess who was pulling off a nearly magical level of multitasking: drinking coffee, smoking thin Capri cigarettes and conducting a phone conversation while sweeping.
As The Intercept reported last year, the NSA's SOMALGET program is sweeping up every telecommunications conversation made in the entire country of Mexico, and several other countries as well, including the Bahamas, Kenya, and the Philippines.
In addition, after Israel's lobbying campaign against the Iran nuclear deal went into full swing on Capitol Hill, administration and intelligence officials realised that the NSA was sweeping up the content of conversations with members of Congress, the newspaper said.
Advocates are gearing up for sweeping campaigns to shift the conversation this summer and fall from politics to the practical effects the health care reform law will have on consumers.
Even in casual conversations, he spoke in sweeping tones.
Techniques included the automatic recording of conversations from certain numbers, and sweeping up text messages based on keywords.
The first two movements are overwhelmingly beautiful: a heavy population of inner voices in deep conversation, all in service of great, sweeping melodic movement.
This is merely about sweeping out comments likely to detract from the real conversation and buzz around your content, so that all genuine comments are easier for others to read, whether supportive or otherwise of your content.
Gently, Mr. Jia, with dour images and wistful conversations, suggests the spiritual cost of the country's sweeping material gains.
Prokofiev's rich and stirring score is one of ballet's greats, the choreography in conversation with its intricate rhythms as well as sweeping drama.
