Sentence examples for sweeping state from inspiring English sources

The talks had stalled because Cyprus's outgoing communist president, Demetris Christofias, refused to agree the IMF's demands, such as sweeping state asset sales.

Some politicians who support the state of emergency are nervous of sweeping state powers.The United States, which is expected to offer Colombia $500m in mainly military aid for 2003, supports Mr Uribe's policies.

And she shows no sign of slowing down or of tiring of her position — particularly as she watches sweeping state budget cuts and a newly anointed Republican supermajority gut the programs she spent decades fighting to build.

Similar troubles may well be brewing for the UK government on account of its demonstrable appetite for sweeping state surveillance powers — when, outside the bloc, it too risks butting up against EU citizens' fundamental privacy rights.

So, in plain English, the provision provides for sweeping state powers to co-opt all but the tiniest of startups and technology platforms as surveillance entities — and does so with a power to compel them to pre-bake weaknesses into their systems on-demand.

The rash of ultra-conservative legislation sweeping state capitals didn't come from nowhere.

In recent weeks, he has come under increasing criticism for staying out of the country while his supporters have been attacked, tortured and even killed in a sweeping state-sponsored campaign to intimidate all who dare challenge Mr. Mugabe's re-election.

Mr. Bush's curriculum coordinates with both the standards movement sweeping states and its national embodiment, No Child Left Behind, which requires all children in Grades 3 to 8 to be tested each year in reading and math, and once in science.

New York state Sen. Gustavo Rivera, a Democrat from the Bronx, last month introduced what might be the most sweeping state-based immigration measure in the country.

A clamor for ethics reform was sweeping the state and the nation in 1973 when John Whitmire, a 23-year-old college dropout, was sworn in as a freshman member of the Texas House.

The sweep of S.C.S.U. was the Gophers' first since sweeping Minnesota State at home in early December.