| The winds of change blowing through Cairo could sweep away quite a few regimes in the region. |
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| All the hype of the buildup convinced them that the freshness of youth would sweep away cobwebs of doubt. |
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| Hissing drones and cymbal crashes sweep away any memory of the former's dulcet overtones. |
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| If the people would procure a lion's heart, he would make enough rain to sweep away the whole town. |
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| He was a declinist who thought that capitalism's destructive energies would sweep away the heroic virtues that built it. |
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| One reason why the new rules are so radical is that they sweep away all the previous ones. |
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| I positioned my broom and began to sweep away the dirt and filth that had gathered since last time I had swept. |
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| And it will sweep away, once and for all, the web of distortion and deceit that poisons this debate. |
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| If civilisation lay in ruins, then there was a momentous opportunity to sweep away this heap of broken images and start afresh. |
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| The party's modernising zeal is set to sweep away Britain's archaic alcohol restrictions. |
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| Second, a mutation causing a switch in resource specialization allows one strain to sweep away its competitor. |
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| Her broom helped sweep away the clam shells discarded by scavenging racoons and the carcasses of dead mice frozen during the winter. |
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| A huge campaign will attempt to sweep away litter and graffiti in a fresh war on crime which is expected to run for a year. |
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| Those who profit from clear-cutting hillsides contribute to the floods that sweep away the homes and crops of those living below. |
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| A binary approach of either rescue or liquidation can sweep away the uncertainties associated with trying to prevent irremediable insolvency. |
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| The Attorney General for Ireland sought to sweep away this little problem by saying that BNFL are not a party to these proceedings. |
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| Pagans bathe in salt water, burn sage, sweep away negative energy, etc., all in the belief they are ridding themselves or their sacred space of negativity. |
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| But the spectacle can cloy and a sadness lingers after the pageant has moved on as householders emerge with shovels and brooms to sweep away all trace of their work. |
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| The German Sturm und Drang and the English Romantic Movement were about to sweep away the fragile lessons of the Enlightenment and reveal the dark recesses of the human soul. |
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| To forge such a leadership requires a political fight within the labor movement to sweep away all wings of the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy. |
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| Perform a down block by sweeping your left fist down to sweep away an imagined kick or low punch. |
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| For example, huge craters belch out cold liquids and subsea landslides can sweep away or destroy equipment set up on the ocean bed. |
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| Two rams and another iron warship were to form the nucleus of a Confederate fleet designed to sweep away the blockaders and challenge northern supremacy in American waters. |
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| And she began to sweep away the sand that covered her stone which still had blood stains on it. |
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| Mass media are increasingly driven by neo-liberal economics and supported by global corporations determined to sweep away all constraints on their activities and extract the last drop of profit. |
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| Financial The US financial services industry is in the throes services of major reform, which will sweep away many of the inter-state banking restrictions to the benefit of US and non-US banks as well as their customers. |
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| Both organizers, who are also qualified mountain guides, tell the story of the ice, sweep away generally accepted ideas, warn us about global warming, but also take many other things into consideration. |
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| Antimonarchical sentiment threatened to sweep away the last vestige of royal prerogative. |
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| Days before Chinese New Year, houses are cleaned from top to bottom to sweep away bad luck. |
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| If we allow the state to sweep away the normal walls of privacy that protect the details of our lives, we will consign ourselves psychologically to living in a fishbowl. |
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| In most instances, cells diligently sweep away this debris. |
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| I don't need to sweep away any bitterness. |
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| The situation of these young people in trouble did not require us to create a hurricane, which may well sweep away all the rehabilitative progress made. |
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| We fought for proletarian political revolution to sweep away the Stalinist bureaucracies in power and establish the genuine workers democracy of soviets and factory councils. |
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| It will have to sweep away all stubborn obstacles to change. |
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| But run-offs sweep away oils, hydrocarbons, heavy metals, tiny pieces of plastic? to say it shortly, invisible pollution that can be found on roads, sidewalks and buildings. |
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| Once these institutions have been established, their inertia calls for further counter-attacks, for one cannot simply sweep away institutions, they go on evolving on their own, though very slowly, most of the time. |
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| They would like us ultimately to get to the same point as some sects in India that sweep away a bug in front of them in order not to step on it and harm an animal. |
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| Come to Jesus who gave His life, so that you may become true sons of God, in His image and I will come with the Wind of the Holy Spirit to sweep away the sins of your Earth in order to sanctify it. |
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| If you have no doubt of your premises or your power and want a certain result, with all your heart, you naturally express your wishes in law and sweep away all opposition. |
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| They sweep away and incinerate nearly everything in their path. |
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| Mrs. Merkel's government has pledged to sweep away such barriers. |
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| Revolution will sweep away all in its path. |
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| The tails of grazing animals, such as horses, are used both to sweep away insects and positioned or moved in ways that indicate the animal's physical or emotional state. |
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