In addition, the workings of the German "Schlieffen" plan have long been thought to have swept everyone up into battle before anyone had entirely decided to go to war.
A tsunami, described as "huge and mighty hills of water" advancing at a speed "faster than a greyhound can run" is thought to have swept down the Bristol Channel in 1607, with the water reaching 14 miles inland and 200 square miles (520 sq km) of land eventually submerged.
LONDON – Britain's obsession with class, once thought to have been swept away by a rising tide of meritocracy, appears to be undergoing a revival as a consequence of the country's economic tribulations.
A boat thought to have been swept out to sea during the 2011 Japanese tsunami has washed up on a beach in Oregon - with an unexpected passenger.
Military officials point out that the marines could also sweep buildings thought to be used as hiding places by Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders if they were in an urban area where civilians would be endangered by bombing.
The intensified army activity was thought to relate to a sweep through a nearby village, Khirbet al-Jouz, at the entrance to which tanks and jeeps could be seen massing late on Thursday night.
We have evidence of natural selection by environmental clines having acted on crop landraces (Eagles and Lothrop 1994), as well as evidence of selective sweeps thought to have taken place during the process of domestication (Burke et al. 2005; Buckler and Stevens 2006).
The Ayvacık sweep is thought to be the largest single mass arrest of refugees in recent months, and follows an agreement on Sunday that saw the EU pledge to give Turkey €3bn (£2bn) in exchange for increased border patrols.
Since the protests, security forces have initiated sweeps of neighborhoods thought to harbor individuals believed responsible for violence, but they have also focused on others, including Jamaat-e-Islami supporters.
As a consequence, recurrent selective sweeps are commonly thought to be rather slow in these systems.
