The phrase "sweeping solution" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a comprehensive or all-encompassing answer to a problem.
Example: "The committee proposed a sweeping solution to address the city's traffic congestion issues."
Alternatives: "comprehensive solution" or "broad solution."
She said that only a sweeping solution ensuring representation to all immigrants would address the fundamental inequalities.
It is common for opponents of militarized and law-enforcement approaches to illegal drug use to advocate "decriminalization" and "legalization" of marijuana and other drugs as a sweeping solution.
So the Obama administration and Congress were smart to avoid the magic bullet trap: the wishful idea that one sweeping solution, like breaking up the banks, could prevent the next crisis.
Any sweeping solution to the problems of the euro — like an "economic government," or a pan-European Treasury or Finance Ministry, or collective "euro bonds" — is many months, if not years, away.
Federal officials acknowledged that the cancellation of flights would be painful, especially as the holiday season was approaching, but they said that it was the only way to bring some temporary relief to the airport, until a more sweeping solution could be found.
And, if users or customers are involved, the process of cost cutting isn't necessarily a sweeping solution.
With that in mind, other reformers prefer less sweeping solutions.
He travels light ideologically, preferring the forensic skills of economic modelling to sweeping solutions to economic problems.
Here is a sampling of the options available, from single-task devices to more sweeping solutions for controlling all the systems in a home.
Here in Michigan, which had some of the nation's toughest standards for judging school performance, state and district education officials are turning away from the sweeping solutions that No Child Left Behind charts for chronically failing schools.
It was Toomey's calculation that Obama's policies and governing philosophy would do more to rehabilitate conservative doctrine than Republicans themselves ever could, and that by 2010, after two years of perpetual emergency and sweeping solutions, the American public would weary of making history and ask Republicans to apply a brake.
