Sentence examples for sweeping effort from inspiring English sources

So far so good was the word on Wall Street Thursday as details emerged about Europe's latest broad, sweeping effort to relieve Greece's debt burden.

Finally, he said, there needs to be a more sweeping effort to fight worldwide corruption.

It is in sync with a similar though less sweeping effort by the Clinton administration.

Analysts caution that any sweeping effort to reduce mortgage foreclosures would pose daunting challenges.

A sweeping effort to rewrite the tax code faces major obstacles.

Having been controlled before the war, growing hemp was criminalized thereafter in a sweeping effort to crack down on marijuana.

Sweeping efforts to counter political Islam could confirm its conspiracy theories and demonstrate its suppleness as an ideology.

But in both cases leaders also see their construction sprees as part of sweeping efforts to retool their societies for a post-Sept.

Senate Republicans have also been resistant to sweeping efforts to change campaign finance laws, and Senator Dean G. Skelos of Long Island, the Republican leader, had a cool response to the governor's proposals last week, raising concerns about the cost of a system like New York City's.

He did not mention a presidential order creating military tribunals or sweeping efforts by his administration to investigate the lives of people suspected of terrorism, including expanded government wiretapping and the monitoring of communications between some people in federal custody and their lawyers.

Last summer's outbreak prompted widespread fear of the virus, and sweeping efforts by city, county and state health officials to monitor for the disease this year and to try to eradicate the mosquito population through treatment of breeding grounds with larvicide and public education campaigns.