But the sweeping notion that individual black Americans are owed a "debt" for slavery is a bridge too far.
These solid and interesting facts, however, have given rise to the sweeping notion that natural organisms would be reducible to algorithms or fully explainable by algorithms.
He gravitated toward other such men, and in Herbert Croly, the founding editor of The New Republic, he found one able to articulate the kind of grand sweeping notion upon which he could not only base an entire political lifetime of proposed reform but even found a movement that almost succeeded in displacing the two established political parties.
And Mr. Cornog makes a case for how much more sweeping such notions become in an age of news bites and compressed narratives: "One may simply add '-gate' to a convenient word and all political chicanery is leveled, whether it involves a fundamental perversion of the Constitution or a petty exercise of patronage power".
Kerry, who did most of the talking, came with reassurances on the quality of the intelligence showing that the Assad régime had used chemical weapons, but with little more than impressionistic notions and sweeping historical admonitions when asked what would happen after the United States launched air strikes.
Today however, the notion of exporting sweeping eschatological revolution is now largely seen as defunct, and the only glowering a long dead Ayatollah Khomeni does these days are from billboards in Tehran and faded posters in Beirut's southern suburbs.
In the motion to dismiss the indictment, Mr. Schultz and his supporters argued that foreign cultural property laws are sweeping, ambiguous and contrary to American notions of private property and should not be the basis for criminal prosecution in the United States.
One of the astounding things about the rhetoric sweeping through statehouses across the United States is the notion that teachers, of all people, are overpaid and selfish.
Aides to Mr. Cuomo disputed the notion that it would not be sweeping, saying it would supersede the "last in, first out" policy and in the long term provide a more objective way of making hiring decisions.
The megadeals that are sweeping the technology and communications industries all confirm the notion that some slab of digital wizardry attached to a television will be at the heart of tomorrow's wired home.
