Sentences with 'sweeping'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sweeping and other words derived from it.
• « In 1839 Resid Pasha, a senior official in the service of Sultan Abd al-Macid, instituted a broad reform movement, the Tanzimat, which introduced sweeping changes to Ottoman government and law, culminating in a liberal constitution and the first meeting of an Ottoman parliament in 1876. »
• « Jefferson chose what he considered the best of his limited options and responded to the crisis with the economic means of a sweeping trade ban, the Embargo Act of 1807. »
• « As beneficiaries of the economic transformations sweeping the republic, these newly established manufacturers formed a new economic elite that thrived in the cities and cultivated their own sensibilities. »