Sentence examples for widespread sweep from inspiring English sources

Chinese leaders are not becoming more tolerant of Ai's type of liberal activism; on the contrary, the Party has, in recent weeks, detained hundreds of human-rights lawyers in the most widespread sweep of legal advocates in decades.

Vitoria's influence was widespread; it swept the universities and even affected the royal councils.

Widespread protests swept the country, and the government of Prime Minister Valeriu Streleț faced the same fate as its predecessor when it was toppled after just four months.

This was partly because Next remained aloof from the widespread discounting that swept the retail sector ahead of Christmas, starting its sale on Boxing Day.

Villiers-le-Bel felt like an ordinary New York suburb, a bit like Jackson Heights or Flushing; it was hard to imagine that it had been one of the sites of widespread rioting that swept the banlieues in 2005.

Widespread flooding has swept Illinois and Missouri, where Governor Jay Nixon also declared a state of emergency on Sunday.

Protesters set fire to cars, tires and two polling stations in riots that erupted around Egypt on Monday over allegations that the ruling National Democratic Party was guilty of widespread fraud in its sweep of Sunday's parliamentary elections.

Even the seemingly large settlement sum of $20 billion that has been floated would be a small price for banks to pay if the quid pro quo is to sweep potentially widespread abuses under the rug.

A national security force will be deployed to five of Brazil's major cities to ensure the Confederations Cup football tournament is not disrupted by the widespread protests that have swept the country.

At a meeting of the Geological Society of America last week, Dr. Keller reported marine fossil evidence that she said linked the mass extinction to widespread volcanic eruptions that swept India at the end of the Cretaceous.

In his first public defense of his tenure, Mr. Freeh politely but emphatically swept aside widespread complaints that during his tenure the Federal Bureau of Investigation refused to cooperate with other agencies and failed to prepare for a terrorist attack in the United States.