Sentence examples for swept state from inspiring English sources

That would be a higher turnout than two years ago, when Mr. Walker and a wave of Republicans largely swept state and federal offices here, but not as high as the more than 69 percent turnout in 2008, when Barack Obama easily won the state.

Some states brazenly challenged Roe with laws that would never have been considered before evangelical and Tea Party candidates swept state legislature elections in 2010.

The trend that swept state capitals over the past three years has been fanned by an anti-abortion movement reinvigorated by the tea party wave during 2010 elections, when Republicans made huge gains in state legislatures, governors' offices and Congress.

The plan swept states with some of the highest foreclosure levels, including California, Nevada and Arizona, into a swelling crisis over lenders' flawed paperwork that had been mostly confined to 23 other states that require judicial review of foreclosures.

Teacher-led protests swept states from West Virginia to Arizona last winter and spring, leading to an exceptional influx of candidates.

Prior assessments of right-to-carry statutes came earlier in the waves of "Shall Issue" laws that first swept states in the 1980s and mid-1990s.

The strike came on the heels of a "red state rebellion" which swept states like Kentucky, Arizona and West Virginia last spring and summer.

Yes, the teacher strikes that have swept states such as Arizona, West Virginia and Kentucky in recent months are a matter of substandard labor conditions.

Pundits and policymakers watched those races closely, seeing them as a referendum on the ideas that bolstered the teacher protests that swept states like Arizona and West Virginia this spring.

Or maybe it was that the Democratic Party machine lined up against him, or that he failed to connect with black voters, allowing Clinton to sweep states across the South.

In New Mexico, Governor Susana Martinez also declared a state of emergency Sunday over a snowstorm that swept the state over the weekend.