Lawyers for the protesters arrested during the convention said the court results confirmed their complaint at the time that the arrests by the Philadelphia police were a pre-emptive street-sweeping tactic designed to stifle lawful protest and head off distractions from the convention agenda.
In 2007, when this tactic was sweeping the N.F.L., Phillips was so furious that the Buffalo Bills tried to ice Nick Folk, forcing him to kick a 53-yard game winner twice, that he called the league office about it.
Mr. Utkus of Vanguard said that about 15 to 20 percent of companies with automatic enrollment had extended it to the entire work force, not just new hires, a tactic sometimes called "sweeping" or "re-enrollment".
The lawsuit accuses the police of using illegal tactics like "herding," "sweeping" and "pinning" bystanders and protesters.
Crowdfunding is sweeping through the bookstore business, the latest tactic for survival in a market that is dominated by Amazon, with its rock-bottom prices, and Barnes & Noble, with its dizzying in-store selection.
The Australians have decided to start sweeping Murali away around the corner, a tactic which brings them seven runs from the over and dries up that ever-diminishing well of hope a little further.
So Westmoreland decided to use World War II tactics, employing massive firepower and sweeping search-and-destroy operations to impose crippling casualties on the enemy.
The Kiev demonstrations turned more violent on Sunday after harsher police tactics and the introduction of sweeping anti-protest legislation which the opposition says paves the way for a police state in the former Soviet republic.
But the incident focused intense scrutiny on the aggressive tactics of the unit, credited with sweeping hundreds of guns off the street and winning record crime reductions, and the department's stop-and-frisk practices generally.
Eight gang injunctions, which drastically limit members' movements and allow for sweeping arrests, have also given police a more aggressive tactic when the light-handed outreach fails.
The Belmont Stakes is said to be a rider's race because its marathon distance and wide, sweeping turns usually demand a slower pace and clear-eyed tactics.
