"sweeping fire" is an appropriate phrase to use in written English.
It is used to describe a large fire that has spread quickly and is difficult to contain. For example, "The sweeping fire quickly began to consume the city."
Portugal is to embark on a sweeping fire-sale of state companies over the coming months, possibly even privatising state broadcaster RTP, as it bends to the will of the troika of lenders that bailed it out 20 months ago.
Now, scientists using data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites have pieced together a decade-long global tour of the world's fires, from waves of grassland fire sweeping across Africa, "the fire continent," to agricultural fires in Asia and to catastrophic wildfires in the western United States.
The understory ignites trees, and wind is sweeping the fire from treetop-to-treetop in 300-foot walls of flame.
Organized by Peter Eleey, MoMA PS1's curator, and Laura Hoptman, a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, this exhibition captures an artist of sweeping imagination firing on all cylinders.
A1 Inquiries Into Fatal Fires Sweeping inquiries into the circumstances behind two fires that killed three New York City firefighters, to be led by the Fire Department and the city's Department of Investigation, are under way.
The horror there brought about sweeping changes in fire safety codes, workplace regulations and conditions for working women.
The fire sweeping through Butte County, which had led to the evacuation of 10,000 people and one death, was 85percentt contained.
One man desperate to save himself from the fire sweeping the upper floors of his building leapt on to a canopy with his son in his embrace.
He recalls how incendiary bombs sent fire sweeping through the town, killing those in bomb shelters and destroying four out of every five buildings.
Mitt Romney arrives in Iowa on Tuesday for a speech intended to dramatize the impact of the economic downturn, calling the nation's debt a "prairie fire" sweeping across the Midwestern state and the rest of the country.
Walking in four lines across a no man's land of thistles, wild flowers, self-sown mustard and wheat, the men of the 15th slowly advanced into sweeping machine gun fire and artillery.
