"sweeping impact" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a large, far-reaching effect that something has. For example, "The economic recession has had a sweeping impact on the job market, leaving many unemployed."
Still, he said, the reversal on Tuesday could have a sweeping impact because "the government wins a lot more cases" under the appeals court's approach.
The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the stricter emissions regulations for the plants will result in billions of dollars in related health savings, and will have a sweeping impact on air quality.
Tuesday's ruling, in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America, could have a potentially sweeping impact, as it would apply to all United States service members anywhere in the world.
But a corporation making its employees responsible for the things they say can have a sweeping impact when it happens to be a corporation that has millions of fans.
Once the mainstreaming is complete, it will have a sweeping impact on every aspect of education and employment.
This extraterritorial application of laws has wide sweeping impact on e-commerce, privacy, defamation and freedom of information.
Sweeping impacts on forests ensued from French colonial forestry (McElwee 2016), and during the country's struggle for independence large forest areas were damaged by impacts of war (especially aerial herbicides; Brauer 2009).
Developing a texture-based age-invariant texture technique would have far-reaching and sweeping impacts on face-based biometric techniques.
While acknowledging sweeping impacts already occurring across the planet, the report also predicts increasing extinctions and loss of food productivity.
While the industry appealed the ruling, the Clinton administration began holding back permits and started a sweeping environmental impact study that focused on limiting the size of the valley fills, and thus the size of the mines.
"I urge Texans to take extreme caution as we continue to see the devastating effects of sweeping wildfires impacting both rural and urban areas".
