The phrase "sweeping expansion" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a large or significant increase or growth in something. Example: The company announced a sweeping expansion of their product line, adding dozens of new items to their catalog.
Senator Ron Wyden criticized the change as a sweeping expansion of warrantless surveillance.
That decision to not act resulted in a sweeping expansion of same-sex marriage rights in the US.
It is the latest such deal announced since the Obama administration won passage of its sweeping expansion of health care coverage.
It is the latest deal in an industry that has been spurred to seek consolidation in part because of the Obama administration's sweeping expansion of health care coverage.
A new venture spearheaded by Elon Musk will create house roofs made entirely of solar panels, in a sweeping expansion of Tesla's clean energy ambitions.
Kerry and Lieberman were left sponsoring a bill with a sweeping expansion of offshore drilling at a moment when the newspapers were filled with photographs of birds soaking in oil.
Just two months ago, Enbridge kicked off one of the most sweeping expansions in its history, announcing a multibillion-dollar series of projects aimed at moving western Canada and North Dakota oil to Eastern refineries and eliminating costly bottlenecks in the U.S. Midwest.
Some said the decision, which said that the use of "standardless manual recounts" violated the equal protection clause by elevating some votes over others, represented as sweeping an expansion of that clause as anything the court of Chief Justice Earl Warren, best known for the Brown v. Board of Education decision, had written.
The Arkansas plan has been closely watched around the United States as an alternative to President Barack Obama's sweeping Medicaid expansion, a major provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that aims to extend health coverage to at least 12 million low-income Americans by the end of the decade.
Both groups--one led by Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, and the other by Brian Schmidt of Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory in Australia--probe the cosmos's future by plotting the distance of far-off objects against the speed at which cosmic expansion is sweeping them away from Earth.
Critics say the law grants sweeping powers to the president and could lead to an expansion of the government's two-year-old campaign against political opponents.
