Sentence examples for sweeping request from inspiring English sources

When the Guardian published the court's order for Verizon to turn over all its customer phone records to the NSA, legal scholars were left puzzled as to how it could have approved the sweeping request, since the statutory predicate for the order specifically gave the government only the power to collect "tangible" items "relevant … to an ongoing investigation".

Earlier this month, as a first step toward possible new regulations, the agency issued a sweeping request for information on occupational risks from infectious agents, and for suggestions on how best to reduce them.

The push for the N.F.L. to release the evidence it gathered during its investigation of the New Orleans Saints intensified Monday, when the lawyer for linebacker Jonathan Vilma — who has been suspended for the 2012 season — sent a letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell that contained a sweeping request for 17 types of evidence.

It is a sweeping request that includes pitch books, one-on-one presentations and documents concerning NIR's efforts to inform or solicit investors for the last five or so years.

Ginsberg made a sweeping written request for the evidence that implicates Vilma, who has been suspended without pay for the 2012 season.

So why didn't Bush take the lawful route and ask Congress to change the statutes banning torture as he had done when he requested sweeping new powers under the "USA PATRIOT Act?" This question has nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi.

A presidential request for sweeping emergency powers led to one newspaper running the headline "Flirting with dictatorship" on Thursday.

Mr. Hashmi's lawyers, in opposing an anonymous jury, called that argument troubling because the prosecution based its request for "sweeping protective measures" on the views of Mr. Hashmi and his supporters.

By contrast, Mr. Daschle has offered virtually unstinting support to the White House in its war on terrorism abroad and at home, ignoring the objections of some liberal senators who raised questions about the administration's requests for sweeping new law enforcement tools.

Some of the President's requests were for sweeping action.

In an abrupt reversal of position, the district court elected to enter sweeping relief requested by the government without affording Microsoft any process whatsoever.