"sweeping goal" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a grand or ambitious goal, or a goal that encompasses a wide range of objectives. Example: "The CEO has set a sweeping goal for the company to become the leader in sustainable and ethical practices within the industry."
Inevitably, too, he set sweeping goals -- no child raised in poverty, affordable health care for everyone, a cleaner and safer planet -- without providing much of a road map toward realizing them.
The governor has counted on the agency and its longtime leader, Mary Nichols, to put into practice his sweeping goals to combat climate change around the world.
Sweeping economic goals and strategies have become an almost annual rite for Japan's successive prime ministers.
The new research comes just a few months ahead of the highly anticipated Paris climate summit, where hundreds of world leaders and scientists are expected to hash out sweeping new goals to tackle the growing scourge of climate change.
And capped off with a brilliant counter-attacking goal, sweeping from one penalty area to the other.
It also bodes well for their future that most of players that came into the team impressed, no one more so than Ki, who dictated the visitors' tempo and played a part in their opening goal, sweeping a pass out to Kyle Naughton that was turned in from close range by the unmarked Wayne Routledge.
Dundee were being swamped by the red tide sweeping towards their goal and the Dons missed a great chance to extend their lead.
What these companies have in common, beyond their shared affection for sweeping, barely possible goals, is that they all continue to be led by their founders.
A1 Wal-Mart's Energy Plan Wal-Mart's chief executive, Lee Scott, is set to announce today a set of sweeping, specific environmental goals to reduce energy use in its stores, double its trucks' fuel efficiency, minimize its use of packaging and pressure the thousands of companies in its worldwide supply chain to follow its lead.
[C1.] Wal-Mart Announces Plan to Cut Energy Use Wal-Mart's chief executive is set to announce a set of sweeping, specific environmental goals to reduce energy use in its stores, double its trucks' fuel efficiency, minimize its use of packaging and pressure the thousands of companies in its worldwide supply chain to follow its lead.
