Sentence examples for sweeping use from inspiring English sources

And no one can be completely comfortable with this sort of sweeping use of the governor's right to pardon.

The administration's plan amounts to the most sweeping use of executive authority to rewrite federal education law since Washington expanded its involvement in education in the 1960s.

Expanding DNA swabbing to all those arrested in major felonies would be the most sweeping use of genetic testing by any state.

The most sweeping use of the statute was in Iowa, after an immigration raid in May 2008 at a meatpacking plant in Postville.

The All Writs Act does not support such sweeping use of judicial power, and the First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution forbid it.

This led to the sweeping use of Schutzhaft—"protective custody", a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings.

Sweeping, using an anionic bile acid surfactant and neutral γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) under alkaline conditions (pH 8), resulted in focusing and separation of the moderately hydrophobic (non-ionic) classes of steroids, such as androgen and corticosteroids.

Sweeping US surveillance powers used by the National Security Agency expired at midnight after a dramatic showdown in the Senate.

In this study, we tried also the backward sweeping using initial excitations with five or even more co-existing pulses in one round trip time.

LAPD officers used Tasers in more encounters in 2015 than in previous years, according to a sweeping use-of-force analysis the department published last month.

Ashcroft is also lobbying for the power to have the FBI, working from one sweeping warrant, use roving wiretaps that would follow a target to each phone or computer he used.