Miniver," a huge, Oscar-sweeping hit in the United States, remains the best-known tribute to the plucky indomitability of ordinary Britons.
Inevitably, the political storm now sweeping China has hit the golf courses of the nation and the players who use them.
On Habash's third day, just after she and Harris had left the valley floor, another avalanche hit, sweeping across the ground they had spent all day searching.
Last month, sweeping layoffs hit AOL, HuffPost, Yahoo, BuzzFeed and Gannett, racking up about 1,400 job losses in a devastating blow to both digital and print media.
CGU officials are currently investigating scores of Petrobras contractors over alleged bribery as part of the sweeping scandal that has hit Brazil's faltering economy and triggered a domestic political crisis.
Clearly his high-profile decision to give out Mike Atherton in the Old Trafford Test, caught sweeping after the ball hit him somewhere on the upper arm, has not changed the general view that Shep is the best there is.
Sweeping energy sanctions would hit Russia the hardest but due to the EU's dependence on Russian gas – in some countries as much as 100% of gas imports are Russian – this option is politically unlikely and could prove prohibitively expensive for the EU.
And, like all purveyors of sweeping stereotype, the show hits on some truths.
My bully pulpit was the Daily Bruin columns, where I fulminated against the proto-McCarthyism that was sweeping the nation – and hitting UCLA, the "little red schoolhouse", especially hard.
His movements were a cross between slapping, hitting and sweeping — one was a figure 9, starting at my right thigh, up to my shoulder and then back to my thigh — and a combination of pressure and a punch, part chiropractic adjustment, part punishment.
