Sentence examples for sweeping plans from inspiring English sources

It has initiated sweeping plans for judicial and police reform.

As far back as 1987, Suffolk County devised sweeping plans to restore the bay to the days when it was thick with oysters, scallops, mussels and clams.

It's always helpful to hear a candidate's broad vision, but sweeping plans do pose a problem if you can't get there from here.

Though the governors of three big states — California, Illinois and Pennsylvania — proposed sweeping plans to restructure health care this year, none will finish 2007 with bills passed and signed.

In recent months, the German government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder announced sweeping plans to reduce retirement benefits, while at the same time allowing Germans to channel a portion of their retirement tax payments into private pension plans.

MirCorp announced sweeping plans for the station, including turning it into a space hotel for wealthy tourists willing to pay $20 million for a unique vacation, leasing space to pharmaceutical and materials companies wanting to do proprietary research, and establishing Internet and entertainment businesses in space.

But now the BBC has unveiled a sweeping plan to cut almost a fifth of its senior managers and to freeze the pay of its executive board for a further three years.

Jerusalem's mayor today unveiled a sweeping plan for an area of East Jerusalem that would see at least 22 Palestinian homes demolished to make way for a public park and tourist site.

So did the Canary Wharf project launched by the Thatcher government when it gave sweeping planning powers over 8.5 square miles of derelict docks to the London Docklands Development Corporation in 1981.

In July Congress passed sweeping plan to boost the housing markets, or at the very least stop the bleeding.

unveiled a sweeping plan on Tuesday to crack down on the lawful corruption she said has infected Washington policymaking.