Sweeping a mass of papers off a chair so that I could sit down, he picked up one of his well-worn art books and opened it to a reproduction of Géricault's "The Raft of the Medusa".
Outside, a sweeping mountain view.
But in the chronicles of city elections, Mr. Bloomberg's choice of topic on Monday was an odd one because it involved a sweeping overhaul of mass transit, an area over which the mayor has very little say.
This year the Yale Schola Cantorum, Juilliard415 and the Yale Baroque Ensemble come together for Bach's sweeping masterpiece of a mass.
Sweeping the dead into mass graves robs their loved ones of a vital need of survivors – the ability to grieve properly.
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Citing statistics that show states with stricter gun laws tend to have fewer gun deaths, Mr Obama also pointed to the UK and Australia as countries that introduced sweeping gun control following mass shootings, and all but eliminated gun violence.
Add to that the quiet violence of a 20% child poverty rate in the richest nation in history, a prison gulag of mass incarceration sweeping up 2.5 million people, harsh economic "austerity" resulting in severe slashing and degradation of education, health care, housing, public transportation and jobs at home – all of it hitting people of colour disproportionally.
But with the official opposition Labour party falling in line behind the government there was little hope of derailing the drive to lock in sweeping and intrusive state mass surveillance powers — which had been used in secret (and at times illegally) prior to the Snowden disclosures forcing their avowal in parliament.
In one witness session held in December before the holiday break, the committee heard conflicting views on the costs of capturing Internet connection records, concerns over the implications for encrypted services — including criticism of the bill's vague wording — and fears over sweeping powers to sanction mass hacking of services.
