Sentence examples for sweeping hundreds from inspiring English sources

But the incident focused intense scrutiny on the aggressive tactics of the unit, credited with sweeping hundreds of guns off the street and winning record crime reductions, and the department's stop-and-frisk practices generally.

"Reading the criteria as stringently as possible," he wrote, "I still see no way to avoid sweeping hundreds, perhaps thousands of high level government officials within the scope of the court's holding, putting their job security and their administrative actions and decisions constitutionally at risk".

Its founders, secular Jews inspired by the nation-state enthusiasm sweeping 19th-century Europe, saw emigration to Palestine as a way to escape not just the squalor and persecution, but also the stifling insularity and religious orthodoxy of shtetl life.

South Korea: It's OK, That's Love (no UK broadcaster) Romantic comedy My Lovely Sam-Soon, with its sympathetic focus on a dowdy twentysomething woman, broke new ground for Korean drama, while sweeping 16th-century costume drama Dae Jang Geum was exported to 92 countries.

Lynn Nottage has chosen to write in a sweeping 19th-century style.

Both were blessed with rhythmic verve and melodic distinction: sweeping 19th-century melodies in the case of Tchaikovsky, spiky 20th-century ones in the case of Stravinsky.

On the first floor, in a sweeping 14th-century hall, are some of Donatello's finest works, including a youthful David in marble, as well as the aforementioned bronze David.

The cast of Showtime's sweeping 16th-century historical drama "The Tudors" is so immense that the costume designer Joan Bergin is forced to rent clothes literally from around the world.

Holmes finished off a sweeping 71st-minute move involving DTH Van Der Merwe and Byron McGuigan.

He was first to three figures again, sweeping his 13th four from his 221st ball off Bruce Martin.

Kaká scored the second in the 29th, sweeping the ball in after Carlos Kameni had saved Raúl González's header.