It's sweeping the world.

It is as if a new wave of counter enlightenment is sweeping the world, with the most restrictive views dominating the scene.

A left wing tide has supposedly been sweeping Latin America.

A democratic tide seems to be sweeping across the Arab world.

Since his sweeping re election, he has been surprisingly modest and magnanimous.

Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm trees .

Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm trees .

Sometimes, though, the only way to tell a story is with a sweeping picture.

Moreover, on the social and cultural levels, the sweeping changes have been more colossal.

Instead, what is called for is a sweeping solution to all the core issues.

This movement is not quite sweeping the world, but it is making a difference.

Four years ago, the crackdown started and a sweeping round of arrests has continued.

To impose strict liability in respect of all significant damage therefore seemed very sweeping.

The shale energy revolution that started in the US is thus causing sweeping changes worldwide.

So far, anti American rhetoric has been remarkably muted in the uprisings sweeping the Middle East.

The United States is in the midst of an intense debate on a sweeping immigration overhaul.

A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

The winds of global change began sweeping through Asia roughly two decades ago, first in East Asia, then engulfing China, and in the course of the 1990 s blowing on to South Asia, most importantly India.

And here, Obama, in particular, will soon understand that Hollande has no intention of bringing sweeping change.

The recent trend, mostly expressed in Arabic, is best characterized as a sweeping current of religious zealotry.

He implemented sweeping economic policies in Portugal to regulate commercial activity and standardize quality throughout the country.

We wish for a sweeping review of cooperation policies and of the distribution of official development assistance.

This is certainly true of Greece, whose structural problems are much more sweeping than even its financial difficulties.

Indeed China mania, a mixture of hopes, but mostly fears, is sweeping the world due to China s rapid economic rise.

Nigeria is reorganizing its state oil company, introducing transparency legislation, and launching sweeping audits of the oil and gas sector.

Dania, of My Chaos, discussed what she feels as a religious fever sweeping the society, and in turn, the blogpshere

Graffiti artist Rei Blinky is what journalist Nathaniel Janowitz calls a pioneer for the artistic movement sweeping through the city.

Her second sweeping proposal, the withdrawal of voting rights in the Council, was abandoned at the Council s recent meeting in Brussels.

At home and abroad, it is impossible to miss the breadth and depth of change sweeping the globe, particularly in Asia.

The sweeping changes underway in Asia are not just economic, but have also created new political realities that cannot be ignored.

Christian IV first initiated the policy of expanding Denmark's overseas trade, as part of the mercantilist wave that was sweeping Europe.

The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts, lasting from 1792 until 1802, resulting from the French Revolution.

In 2002 Parliament established the Atuarfitsialak programme, a sweeping educational reform that addressed these needs and is now being fully implemented.

It turns out that Dmitri's sentence is far more than a bit of street sweeping, as naive Kuzbass natives might have thought.

Behold, the storm of Yahweh, his wrath, has gone forth, a sweeping storm it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.

Allowing European debt problems to fester and grow by sweeping them under the carpet through dubious theatrics can only make those problems worse.

LONDON It is difficult to separate some of my personal memories of Margaret Thatcher mundane but revealing from the sweeping judgments of history.

A sweeping defense review that Japan recently carried out reaffirms that it will continue to oppose its immediate neighbors possession of nuclear arms.

Many States, however, have enacted laws that are considerably broader than this definition, frequently using sweeping, vague and or ambiguous terms and concepts.

WASHINGTON, DC With Hosni Mubarak s ouster in Egypt widely considered to have one of the region s most stable regimes until only recently and Colonel Muammar Qaddafi clinging to power in Libya, there is no clear end in sight to the turmoil sweeping across the Arab world.

Hazare fasted to force the government to create a tough new anti corruption authority, the Lokpal, with sweeping powers to investigate, prosecute, and punish.

Few know better than the Eurocrats of Brussels that the unrest now sweeping across Arab countries was only a matter of time in coming.

Germany is a democracy firmly anchored in the European Union, and there is no threat of Soviet tanks sweeping across the North German plains.

Yes, if you are a bank, particularly a big one, you can raise money easily enough, thanks to sweeping explicit and implicit government guarantees.