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Example sentences for: sweeping

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What he wanted, he told Moyers, was a poverty program that would hire high-school students who were about to drop out, and put them to work picking rocks off highways or sweeping the floors of government buildings.
“People power” began to exert its influence which ensured that, in Amsterdam at least, progress did not mean sweeping away the past.
The WP and NYT make it clear just how sweeping the acquittal was: Not only was Ashby cleared of involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide but also of charges of dereliction of duty and destruction of property, even though he was flying lower and faster than the rules allowed.
The eye is attracted not by some craggy obstacle but by the play of a sudden wind sweeping across the plain.
At the same time, the new government instituted sweeping, enlightened programs to eradicate illiteracy and provide free universal schooling and health care.