Sentence examples for sweeping measure for from inspiring English sources

Mr. Romney opposes Mr. Obama's health care law, saying the federal government should not prescribe such a sweeping measure for all states.

But Mr. Romney said that if he were president he would seek to repeal the new national health care law with its similar mandate, arguing that it was inappropriate for the federal government to prescribe such a sweeping measure for states.

Sweeping measure easily overcomes opposition from lawyers, consumer groups.

Rather than sweeping measures that make it harder for responsible, law-abiding citizens to purchase firearms, we should focus on the root causes of gun violence and keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.

Around the country, state legislatures from Arizona to Kansas have passed sweeping measures this year intended to make it more onerous for Planned Parenthood clinics to stay open.

On Tuesday, the French parliament passed sweeping measures to overhaul the nation's notoriously rigid labor market to make it easier for employers to hire and fire.

Sweeping measures like this often come to nothing.

Like these novels, Moby-Dick is known for the immensity of its ideas, vivid humor and conflict, kaleidoscopic explosions of language, and the sweeping measure of history it takes within its pages.

Shortly after his arrival, Vermont's Assembly passed the Banishment Act, a sweeping measure allowing for the confiscation and auction by the republic of property owned by known Tories.

Advocates for gun control, however, lauded the decision, and have called for the sweeping measure to be implemented in more states across the country. .

Seeking to assist elderly and poor residents, legislators in neighboring Maine in May passed the nation's most sweeping measure to subsidize prescription purchases for underinsured residents.