Sentence examples for sweeping death from inspiring English sources

In 1994, when Congress was considering sweeping death penalty legislation, Attorney General Janet Reno said in a letter to a congressman who opposed the death penalty that the department was developing procedures that would allow for the disclosure of its capital prosecution decisions "so that the public can review and understand the basis for such decisions".

Experts predict the court's opinion will be written broadly, unlikely to stoke sweeping death penalty reforms.

But the behavior of the Americans in the Philippines following Laude's death is not uncharacteristic of the response that these crimes receive at home: blaming the victim, sweeping her death under the rug, and resisting accountability.

The next, he's giving us some genuinely harrowing glimpses of Sept. 11: "a rush of blackness and death" sweeping the streets around the trade center, "a bitter chemical smell of death and burning" infecting the city air.

Yun's quest – a modern version of the age old dream of tapping the fountain of youth – is emblematic of the current enthusiasm to disrupt death sweeping Silicon Valley.

What follows — a sweeping, birth-to-death biography charting Victor's bedeviled return to civilization — is among the most richly realized stories of Boyle's nearly 40-year adventure with the form.

Twelve months ago, the earthquake and resulting deluge hit Tohoku, one of the main sake-producing regions, destroying no fewer than 250 sake breweries and sweeping to their deaths a number of workers.

Ontario has been under increasing pressure to come up with a strategy that responds to the wave of opioid deaths sweeping the nation.

Others came to call attention to the drug-war deaths sweeping the state (Chihuahua is home to Ciudad Juárez) and the shoddy and corrupt police work that's led to fewer than 5percentt of the homicides being solved.

A year ago this Sunday, a dreadful and terrifying natural disaster was sweeping a trail of death and destruction along the north-eastern coast of Japan.

The child's death prompted sweeping changes in the state's child welfare system.