Sentence examples for sweeping land from inspiring English sources

Mr. Basu was known as a savvy political survivor, skilled at building coalitions and forging consensus, whose biggest policy initiatives were sweeping land reforms in West Bengal.

The practicalities of this would fit within the other elements of the peace process already agreed: sweeping land reforms, curtailment of drug traffic and political participation for former guerrillas, with guarantees of protection.

During his first year in power he promulgated sweeping land reform and reduced housing rents.

In the heady days after independence two decades ago, Mr. Mugabe promised a sweeping land reform.

Donald Kaberuka, the finance minister, talks enthusiastically of the need for faster privatisation and sweeping land reform.

They established feudal systems based on peasant labour that lasted until the sweeping land reforms of the mid-20th century.

But it was the nervous laughter of fleeting relief that only confirmed the new state of anxious coping now sweeping the land.

Now history's sweeping the land.

But cricket craziness is not yet sweeping the land.

By 1959 the Archbishop of Canterbury was thundering against the "tide of adultery" sweeping the land.

With the onset of the cold war, atom bomb paranoia was sweeping the land.