Sentence examples for taking a sweeping from inspiring English sources

For his part, Ackroyd will admit to being little interested in politics, and to taking a sweeping view that elides the fine-grain truths of academic history.

There have been grumblings that he dumbs down and simplifies his history shows, taking a sweeping view of history designed more for the verbal flourish than historical accuracy.

A committee of editors and reporters as well as several outside news media experts has been charged with taking a sweeping look at the paper's newsroom practices, and is expected to report its findings in July.

Mark C. Zauderer, the commission chairman and a partner at Piper Rudnick, a Manhattan law firm, said, "We're taking a sweeping look at the entire jury system, as it operates in civil and criminal cases".

As a philosopher, Bostrom takes a sweeping, even cosmic, view of such problems.

This ambitious Hungarian novel, which opens in 1989, takes a sweeping look at 20th-century Europe.

He took a sweeping view of the challenge, speaking of a shift from composition to "construction" as the painter's essential task.

Many Vatican officials, conservative and liberal alike, say it will take a sweeping reform of the priesthood to stop the pedophile scandals.

Like Twitter's many ground-level dispatches, the system is based on a series of small radar devices that can be scattered around cities and their suburbs, rather than a large beacon that takes a sweeping but imprecise view.

Pressure from Latino and immigrant groups helped persuade Mr. Obama to take a sweeping executive action in June to suspend deportations temporarily for as many as 1.7 million young illegal immigrants who came to this country as children.

The Sandy Hook families' lawsuit takes a sweeping approach, arguing that gun manufacturers have been negligent to sell AR-15 rifles to civilians – and to market them in a way that may appeal to troubled young men.