Sentence examples for sweeping house from inspiring English sources

A provision to cover the drugs is in the sweeping House health care bill, which has cleared three committees.

Mr. Ryan, whose sweeping House budget plan that sharply reduces government was embraced by Mr. Romney, can claim that he, too, won a kind of mandate.

Congress Tries to Revive Mandatory Sentencing Months after the Supreme Court struck down mandatory sentencing formulas, Congress is moving to institute new minimum sentences, beginning with a sweeping House bill to fight street gangs.

Already seen as an intellectual leader of the Republican Party because of his sweeping House budget proposals, Mr. Ryan would wield the clout that comes from being recognized as the party's most likely next in line for the presidency, prominent Republicans said.

By nightfall, as gun battles continued, the fighters were sweeping houses and shops in the Shaabiya district, close to what former rebel commanders said was the loyalists' remaining positions.

In times of a Havana that is unrecognizable, By sweeping the house, you cleanse the economy.

After "sweeping the house clean," he promised, "we will withdraw after holding transparent elections".

(As proof of her theory, let's call it the "Sugar Teaspoon" theory, I'll offer that, as a child, I took her advice to heart, and favored dressing up as Cinderella in pre-princess mode, wearing clothes as tattered as I could find and sweeping the house for ashes, which, lacking a fireplace, were in short supply).

Big Brother still has a very stubborn rump of viewers (between 1.8 and 2 million since the 10th series began on 4 June) and it is still possible that a dramatic twist – homicide, suicide, or swine flu sweeping the house – could make the numbers jump.

She had been sweeping her house when she noticed the epistaxis.

Mahipati, in his work Pandurangastrotra, narrates how Vithoba helped female saints like Janabai in their daily chores, such as sweeping the house and pounding the rice.