Sentence examples for sweeping peace from inspiring English sources

The swearing-in of the Hamas-dominated cabinet, coming just a day after Israel's national elections, crystallized the great shifts in Israeli and Palestinian politics that have come in the past decade: from sweeping peace negotiations to years of fighting and now to declarations that neither side wants anything to do with the other.

He said Israel had made sweeping peace offers in the past met with rejection and terrorist attacks by the Palestinians.

As former President Bill Clinton stressed at a recent conference in New York, the Camp David proposal was the most sweeping peace effort ever made, and the Palestinians said no.

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.

National security aides at the White House said the president would address the changes sweeping through Arab countries, the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort, and the draw-downs in the number of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

After lulling Israel and Hamas into shaking hands on a peace deal last Thursday, Morsi gave himself sweeping powers in Egypt, causing his detractors to complain that his latest success had gone straight to his head.

KENNETH ROTH Executive Director Human Rights Watch New York, April 3, 2011 To the Editor: Re "In Israel, Time for Peace Offer May Run Out" (Diplomatic Memo, front page, April 3): It is unacceptable to cite the revolutionary fervor sweeping the Middle East as justification to pressure Israel into an untimely peace agreement.

See articleAs prospects for a revival of the peace process continue to worsen, Sri Lanka's government announced sweeping anti-terrorism measures.

"Mondavi will never have a minute's rest and peace if he destroys the forest," Mr. Guibert said, sweeping his arm in the direction of the hills outside his old stone farmhouse.

These days the American bishops are more cautious than they were 15 years ago, when the National Conference of Catholic Bishops engaged in sweeping pastoral letters on such broad and highly charged topics as war and peace, and American capitalism.

Foreign secretary William Hague warned last night that the Middle East peace process was in danger of falling victim to the revolutionary tide sweeping the Arab world.