Sentence examples for sweeping study from inspiring English sources

MELVIN KONNER is neither a conventional scholar of Judaism nor a historian -- two reasons, perhaps, why his sweeping study of the Jews feels so fresh and alive.

War always brings clothing back to the status quo, according to James Laver, the historian who traced the rise and fall of waistlines as symbolic of social upheaval in his sweeping study "Costume: The Arts of Man," published in 1963.

Konner's sweeping study follows a roughly historical outline, from the earliest prebiblical days to the establishment of the state of Israel, and tracks down far-flung Jewish communities in China, India and Afghanistan.

Mr. Evans's ruling was issued in conjunction with the release of a sweeping study, mandated by Congress, that tried to gauge the effects of such fishing on three varieties of dolphin.

In a sweeping study of Medicare records, researchers from Philadelphia and Menlo Park, Calif., examined the effects of joint replacement among nearly 135,000 patients with new diagnoses of osteoarthritis of the knee from 1997 to 2009.

A bill recently passed in the New York Legislature would require the Port Authority to conduct a sweeping study of the cumulative noise levels and land use compatibility around the city's airports.

Born in Germany in 1602, Kircher rose to prominence as the author of sweeping studies on magnetism, optics, astronomy, hieroglyphics, alchemy, numerology, music, and medicine, and as the builder of whimsical devices, such as the cat organ, in which a keyboard was rigged to the tails of cats of "differing size" to elicit meows of "differing tonal magnitude".

Congo has been the subject of sweeping studies before, including some by the International Rescue Committee, a private aid organization, which has estimated that Congo's civil war has claimed more lives than any other conflict since World War II.

A sweeping federal study of the environmental impact remains unresolved and largely under wraps while the data is being analyzed.

While the industry appealed the ruling, the Clinton administration began holding back permits and started a sweeping environmental impact study that focused on limiting the size of the valley fills, and thus the size of the mines.

Garcia has plenty of company: a sweeping new health study released this week by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that the gap between life expectancy for the rich and poor has widened between 2001 and 2014, such that the richest men are living 15 years longer than the poorest; for women, the richest live 10 years longer.