I tend to shy away from big, sweeping, era-defining statements.
He is sweeping communist-era placemen from command of banks and utilities.
The reductions target the implementation of the Clean Power Plan, the sweeping Obama-era regulation aimed at slashing carbon emissions from the utility sector, the country's biggest emitter by far.
Now, the State Air Pollution Control Board has until Dec. 31 to propose regulations aimed at taking the place of the Clean Power Plan, the sweeping Obama-era rule that restricted emissions from the utility sector nationwide.
The executive order, which Trump signed on Tuesday, will sound the death knell for the Clean Power Plan, a sweeping Obama-era regulation meant to slash carbon emissions from the utility sector by putting limits on coal- and natural gas-fired power plants and encouraging use of renewables like wind and solar.
The "A" pictures of an earlier era (sweeping social dramas like "The Best Years of Our Lives" or bittersweet comedies like "The Apartment") have been reborn as the middle-sized, serious movies that dominate this newspaper's Friday arts section from October to Christmas.
By the time Wings took the top prize at the inaugural Oscar ceremony at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, the advent of "talkies" was already sweeping the silent era aside.
CAIRO — Egypt's interim president swore in a new cabinet on Tuesday that was dominated by liberal and leftist politicians, sweeping away the brief era of Islamist political rule built by the country's deposed president, Mohamed Morsi.
On May 10, for example, the museum is to open "Picturing America," showcasing the museum's collection of American art -- 300 works sweeping from a Colonial-era portrait by John Singleton Copley to a contemporary installation by the Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio.
They had just completed a six-month training course at the FC's main training academy in Shabqadar – a British-era base with sweeping lawns and tree-lined drives – and came from districts that read like a roll-call of Taliban battlegrounds: Waziristan, Swat, Kohat, Lakki Marwat.
The Constitution requires Congress to declare wars, but in this case, Obama says a sweeping, 9/11-era AUMF that never expired gives him the authority to act unilaterally.
