"sweeping revolution" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe something that is wide-reaching or comprehensive in its scope. For example, you could say, "The government implemented a sweeping revolution that changed the way people lived their lives."
The country that witnessed the Arab world's most sweeping revolution is foundering.
… [E]ven its worshippers assert, that it must carry sweeping revolution into every quarter … (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 28, 900-1).
The Observer can reveal that the selection of Peter de Villiers is key to a sweeping revolution - devised at a series of secret meetings 12 months ago - 'to flush away institutional racism' in South African rugby.
In a time of sweeping revolutions that have heightened demands for democratic accountability and high-speed communications that have made transparency easier, an urgent question facing the new pope may be how the church remains vital and relevant amid so much change.
The decision is one more, albeit vital, step in the relatively slow process of change that sets Yugoslavia apart from the sweeping revolutions in other Eastern European nations.
She works slowly, much more so than many of her peers, and her paintings aspire to show not only sweeping revolutions but also alterations to the urban fabric that take place over centuries.
Members of this group expected MDMA to be the basis of a sweeping "neuroconsciousness revolution".
The film may argue the necessity of a sweeping egalitarian revolution, but it also suggests its impossibility.
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.
Unlike the sweeping "colour" revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia or the Arab spring, the protesters have narrow, specific demands, such as a rerun of December's Duma election and the dismissal of the election commission's boss, that show a broader wish for the rule of law and for properly functioning institutions in Russia.
Innovations in science and technology underlie sweeping economic revolutions, whether in railroads, electricity, telephony, or more recently, biotechnology and the Internet.
