Sentence examples for swept the problem from inspiring English sources

Einstein had wrestled with it unsuccessfully back in the 1930s, but successive generations of physicists had swept the problem under the carpet since then, reluctant to deal with the idea that there could be a more fundamental theory than quantum mechanics.

Once a scam had been detected -- perhaps because the pharaoh statuette wig looked a little too Art Deco, or the scarab inscriptions had basic grammatical errors -- embarrassed owners sometimes just swept the problem under the rug by quietly selling it off.

Unhappily, we have swept the problem under the rug rather than truly dealing with it.

In a commentary last Thursday, the state-owned Guangzhou Daily said the government's approach essentially sweeps the problem under the rug while reinforcing public cynicism.

An insanity verdict would raise other problems: "We will be accused of trying to sweep the problem of Breivik under the carpet," said Mr Giaever.

One has it that Dubai rebuffed Abu Dhabi's help, preferring to seek a resolution with its creditors rather than sweep the problem under the carpet.

"There was a time when they would treat an information release quite differently," he said, by trying to sweep the problem under a rug.

'The government's efforts to sweep the problem under the carpet has exploded in its face, leaving the poultry industry in tatters and the very safety of the public in jeopardy,' the Bangkok Post newspaper said in its editorial yesterday.

But we cannot continue to sweep the problem of "challenging behaviour" under the carpet; off-loading pupils whose main barrier to learning is social and emotional needs into special schools like mine is not the answer.

After that disclosure, Dr. William B. Lenoir, NASA's associate administrator for space flight, dismissed the interim report as a "worst-case scenario" and "unrealistically pessimistic". Those remarks so angered Dr. Fisher that he asserted that NASA headquarters was trying to sweep the problem under the rug, helping to prompt a round of Congressional hearings.

If the station is ever to be built, he said, "we must face the challenges of its construction instead of hiding from them". He said the team's intent was "to identify those challenges, painful as they may be". In an interview, he said that the agency was trying to sweep the problem out of view.