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But the values of democracy and the freedom of choice that is sweeping the Middle East at this moment in time is the best opportunity for the world, for the West and the East, to see stability and to see security and to see friendship and to see tolerance emerging from the Arab world, rather than the images of violence and terrorism.
This is something that's sweeping the Web.
When they make that change and that decision, those become sweeping regional and national trends.
But the more we learn about aging, the clearer it becomes that a sweeping downward course is grossly inaccurate.
He says if you run a restaurant, there is no healthy distinction to be made between the value you create by cooking the food and the value you create by sweeping the floor.
It happens around the globe every day, sweeping through the world's oceans in a massive living wave as twilight zone inhabitants travel hundreds of meters to surface waters to feed at night and return to the relative safety of deeper, darker waters during the day.
So I want to share with you some of these bellwether signals, or signs, and winds of change that are sweeping this continent.
And we make sweeping judgments and inferences from body language.
And everything I had to do from that moment was to prepare me to be a perfect woman at age 12. My day started at 5 in the morning, milking the cows, sweeping the house, cooking for my siblings, collecting water, firewood.
Today, agile is used in a hundred countries, and it's sweeping into management suites.
The grasslands were sweeping away.
Another one is a set of lasers, very high-powered lasers, that fire out of the bottom of the plane, sweeping across the ecosystem and measuring it at nearly 500,000 times per second in high-resolution 3D.
This is then joined by the sound of sweeping violins.
Observing our political process in action makes me think it's highly unlikely that we're going to get a bunch of representatives to sit down, learn about this, and then enact sweeping changes to intellectual property law in the U.S. so users control their data.
I made all the complicated decisions with the doctors, I climbed right into that raging river over rapids that was sweeping Mark along.
So while we're making sweeping progress in human health, in technology, in education and design, we are doing dangerously little to help the victims and we are doing far too little to stop and prevent the wars that are driving them from their homes.
Sweeping emotions under the rug of PMS keeps women from understanding the source of their negative emotions, but it also takes away the opportunity to take any action to change them.
So I started sweeping the building as a kind of performance.
This is performance art, and people would come over, and I would start sweeping.
Because the broom was free and sweeping was free.
But we rearranged our entire national security apparatus in the most sweeping way since the end of the Second World War.
Now we make a list out of this by starting at the upper left and sweeping back and forth diagonally, skipping over any fraction, like 2/2, that represents the same number as one the we've already picked.
This was a world dominated by towering ice sheets, three to four kilometers high, with sweeping grass plains and frozen tundra.
You're at the movies, and the camera makes a sweeping move.
But every journey I take around the world, I see an even greater force sweeping the planet: connectivity.
And then this avatar is sweeping up all of this data and enabling you to monetize it.
Very rarely is it possible to prove or predict something with certainty, yet it's so tempting to make a sweeping, unqualified statement.
If you're like me and you believe in forwards and outwards, and you believe that the best thing about humanity is its diversity, and the best thing about globalization is the way that it stirs up that diversity, that cultural mixture to make something more creative, more exciting, more productive than there's ever been before in human history, then, my friends, we've got a job on our hands, because the inwards and backwards brigade are uniting as never before, and that creed of inwards and backwards, that fear, that anxiety, playing on the simplest instincts, is sweeping across the world.
El Greco's painting, "The Purification of the Temple," in which Christ, in the center, in a sweeping and violent gesture, is expelling the sinners from the temple of prayer.
There is a natural hair movement that is sweeping the country and also in some places in Europe.
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