Sentence examples for time sweeping from inspiring English sources

Debate fever has come to Hofstra once again, this time sweeping up many students who first heard of the university when it played host to the 2008 debate.

Maidan was a storm that gathered force over time, sweeping up those who tried to control it — Yanukovych, Putin, Western leaders.

In the middle passage of the novel, the characters recede as Woolf depicts the cold touch of time sweeping across human life, bringing more pain than pleasure, more decay than discovery.

Murray has struggled to recover from disappointments like that in the past, but he bounced back quickly this time, sweeping through six matches in the Olympic tournament with the loss of only one set and reeling off nine straight games against Federer in one particularly lopsided stretch Sunday and finishing with two consecutive aces.

The author encapsulates in a single thick volume the epic life of the man Isaiah Berlin called "the largest human being of our time," sweeping through not just the remarkable war years but a career that dramatically bridged the 19th and 20th centuries.

As the deep-sea fish effigy began to burn (filled with the fears Hobartians had scribbled on gold paper), a tiny child on his mother's shoulders behind me cried, "What's happening, Mr Fish?!" Mr Fish's embers soon ascended and the crowd scattered, as though spooked by the ghostly horn of Anthony McCall's Night Ship, which crossed the bay a final time, sweeping its spotlight across the night.

Sant'Antioco is the antithesis of that celebrity playground: a tranquil backwater, with two quaint ports, a smattering of ruins dating back to pre-Roman times, sweeping Mediterranean savannah, the region's most unspoiled beaches, and little else.

1937 Senate Blocks Court Reform WASHINGTON — By a vote of ten to eight the Senate Judiciary Committee today [May 18] rejected President Roosevelt's judiciary reform program and made the defeat of the most controversial legislative issue of modern times sweeping by throwing out the multitude of compromise plans intended to soften the blow which the President had aimed at the "nine old men".

— Jeff Gordinier The New York Times: Sweeping new food safety rules adopted by the Food and Drug Administration include requirements that farmers ensure the cleanliness of water used in irrigation and that food processors make sure that foods are cooked at temperatures high enough to kill bacteria.

Mr. Trigano was a friend and adviser to Socialist politicians, including former president François Mitterrand, though he never concealed his distaste for economic policies that sought to inject faster growth in France by higher government spending and, at times, sweeping industrial nationalization.

Girls had their most dominant showing in the history of the All-American Soap Box Derby on Saturday, winning five of six individual titles for the first time and sweeping the three major divisions for only the second time.