Sentence examples for sweeping shift from inspiring English sources

In the final major rally of his campaign, Ralph Nader issued a populist call for a sweeping "shift of power" from big business to the downtrodden and disenfranchised, and he urged the country to vote its conscience, not its fears.

A26 In the final major rally of his campaign, Ralph Nader issued a populist call for a sweeping "shift of power" from big business to the downtrodden and disenfranchised, and he urged the country to vote its conscience, not its fears.

Not a revolution, not a sweeping shift in governance.

With one sweeping shift this week, the ailing NBC network reordered the playing field of prime-time television.

"There is a recognition that there hasn't been a sweeping shift or a change in the votes," Mr. Kennedy said.

Helped along by the ratcheting-up of capital charges in trading books and other planned regulatory changes, a sweeping shift in risk appetite is already under way.

Hu Jintao, a 59-year-old insider known as brilliant and bland, was named chief of the Communist Party today, the point man in a sweeping generational shift of the nation's leadership that was achieved through the most orderly transition in the 81-year history of the party.

Completed in October 1975, this landmark study introduced a novel probabilistic, systematic and holistic approach to the assessment of safety, which ultimately resulted in a sweeping paradigm shift in safety design and regulation of nuclear power in the United States in the turn of the Century.

L.A. will add bike and bus lanes, cut car lanes in sweeping policy shift.

But it was the Clintons — whose late arrival into Mr. Holbrooke's sweeping apartment shifted the center of gravity to the foyer, in front of a folded flag and white lilies that marked the reason for the gathering — who managed most succinctly to sum up a man who cared passionately about things as small as seating arrangements and as large as peace between nations.

Indeed, the effort to isolate and target cancer stem cells is central to a much larger paradigm shift sweeping through cancer biology.