Though there are grave problems throughout the country, and particularly in the southeast, the Taliban are not about to sweep back into power.
At the time the ruling National Democratic Alliance coalition, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was expected to sweep back to power on the back of its "India Shining" campaign.
Architecturally, the city looks as though it is waiting for the Austro-Hungarian empire to sweep back and bring the latest gossip from Vienna.* Slovenia is the richest and primmest country in central Europe.
And the political lines are definitely not so tidy as to suggest that Republicans can leverage liberals' "refusal to embrace the innovative technology" to sweep back into favor with urban voters.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the slum parish priest once hailed as the democratic saviour of impoverished Haiti, is expected to sweep back to power this weekend in a presidential election conducted amid random violence.
When they got home, my mother made the highly questionable decision to take a shower, of all things, and my dad, who very well might still have a divot in his forehead where she smacked him with the shower brush, made an equally questionable decision to sweep back the shower curtain and make like Anthony Perkins.
Their style is famously plain, with no musical score to lull or to cajole us, and a reluctance to quicken the action with cuts; if the camera is confronted with two people talking, it tends to sweep back and forth between them, as our gaze would naturally do if we were in the room.
Mr Obama is the first northern liberal to be elected president since John Kennedy; he must not forget how far from the political centre of the country that puts him.Mr Obama's victory, in fact, is almost identical in scope to that of Bill Clinton in 1992; and it took just two years for the Republicans to sweep back to power in the 1994 Gingrich revolution.
But as the gigantic rodents (bigger than New York City sewer rats) stuffed into tiny harnesses began to sweep back and forth on ropes between their human handlers, stopping every so often to scratch and point out a landmine, it didn't take long for the crowd to be convinced.
Flames from the burning engine then began to sweep back, and Crombie ordered Moss to bail out.
And how fascinating it is for me to sweep back over my small self through my adult eyes and explore the magnetic power that book had over me.
