The new law, passed in the waning days of North Carolina's legislative session, places sweeping new restrictions on abortion clinics, including a requirement that doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
Begin your stiffing session by sweeping the pad in even strokes from one side to the other to smooth out any unevenness in the shellac.
Late in the 1997 legislative session, after Mr. Bush's attempts at sweeping tax reform failed, he tried to push through a last-minute deregulation bill.
Almost forty years ago, in April of 1975, as the North Vietnamese Army was sweeping through South Vietnam toward Saigon, President Gerald Ford addressed a joint session of Congress.
Word of the attack came just as the early evening session closed and most of the leaders were sweeping off to dinner, so there was little reaction.
Still, Blair Horner, the legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and others people said Mr. Pataki had acted similarly in 1999, proposing sweeping campaign finance changes in the last days of the session.
By George Packer September 10, 2014 Almost forty years ago, in April of 1975, as the North Vietnamese Army was sweeping through South Vietnam toward Saigon, President Gerald Ford addressed a joint session of Congress.
In May, Texas Governor Rick Perry added sweeping anti-abortion legislation to the agenda of a special session.
Ishaq Siddiqi, market strategist at ETX Capital, summed up the markets: Equities looking perky, US dollar gaining lost ground versus other currencies, gold reversing previous session gains... and bonds falling out of favour on risk-on mood currently sweeping price-action.
But Mr. Castro, speaking at the opening session of Parliament, also scoffed at what he said was media speculation that Cuba planned sweeping economic changes to dig itself out of a financial crisis.
