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And along came the Internet and it swept them out of the way, and it allowed all of us to connect together, and it was awesome.
We saw the food riots in 2008, after what I call the silent tsunami of hunger swept the globe when food prices doubled overnight.
Which struck me as particularly remarkable during one session with the novel when I realized that I was being swept along on this remarkable, vivid journey in translation.
And that's really important, because educational institutions have historically swept gender violence under the rug, much like our criminal justice system does today.
That must be acknowledged, and they can't be swept aside, even with the best of intents.
Clive Barnes in The Times said that it was as if Mr. Papp took a broom and swept up all the refuse from the East Village streets onto the stage at the Public.
America suddenly was swept up by hysteria.
If the protests that swept Brazil in June 2013 have taught us anything, it's that every time we try to exercise our power outside of an electoral context, we are beaten up, humiliated or arrested.
In overcoming the chaotic and monstrous forces of the world, the hero swept away what remained of the Titans’ primordial order, reshaping it into one where humanity could thrive.
In 1998, after having been swept up into an improbable romance, I was then swept up into the eye of a political, legal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before.
Afterwards, the big planets like Jupiter and Saturn, they were not in their place where they are now, and they interacted gravitationally, and they swept the whole interior of the solar system clean, and what we now know as comets ended up in something called the Kuiper Belt, which is a belt of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.
So seductive was this idea, so potent the metaphor of lock and key and killing something, that it really swept through biology.
Bassem said to her, "Please let go, or you'll be swept in and the propeller will kill you, too."
A sudden rush of panic swept over his body, leaving him with sweaty palms, a foggy mind and a racing heart.
Well, the irony of all of this is that we actually don't have to look any further than our backyard, because right here in America are the very ideas, the very people, who have swept our world into a radically different place than it was two decades ago.
They've been swept away over the last two decades by these types of world-flattening digitization technologies, right?
And as climate changes, this is creating a perfect storm for extreme events, like the massive mountain pine beetle outbreak that just swept across North America, or that megafire in the last couple months in Alberta.
But Trudeau's genius was to realize that Canada's crisis had swept away all the hurdles that usually block reform.
Shipping containers washed overboard, and the waves swept 28,000 rubber ducks and other toys into the North Pacific.
A crowded world was disrupted and swept away.
If your hometown might get swept away or destroyed by a natural disaster, we now have a blueprint suspended in time for how to restore that on Earth, or perhaps even in a greenhouse on Mars.
The slum built on the railroad reservation between the sea and the railroad tracks was completely swept away.
And in the last two to three summers, these invasive organisms, this kind of Ebola of the trees, as it were, has swept through the primeval Hemlock forest of the east, and has absolutely wiped it out.
The gourd broke apart, releasing a deluge that swept the brothers away, separating them from the celestial lands forever.
I wrote, over 20 years ago in "The Age of Intelligent Machines," when the Soviet Union was going strong, that it would be swept away by this growth of decentralized communication.
From the ease with which you swept away obstacles that no one knew could even be budged.
The doctor swept into the palace, ready to show off his skills.
And they swept it all up and put it into custody at police headquarters.
From three years ago, it just being an idea, this has become something that has virally swept around the world.
Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by the suave Cary Grant.
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