sweeping change
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsweepingandchange
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sweeping
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈswiː.pɪŋ/us/ˈswiː.pɪŋ/
affecting many things or ...
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change
noun
uk/tʃeɪndʒ/us/tʃeɪndʒ/
the act of becoming different, or the result of something ...
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(Definition ofsweepingandchangefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Under the rule-based model, a single governmental edict can visitsweepingchangeon an entire industry.
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Given the commission's detailed catalog of deficiencies in states' programs and its willingness to promotesweepingchange, why was state-level control deliberately retained?
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I thought that he wanted nothing to stand in the way ofsweepingchange.
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It effects asweepingchangein our constitution—a greater change than has taken place for much more than a hundred years, putting it fairly low.
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It is possible that during the next few years there will be asweepingchangein the country.
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It really introduces a mostsweepingchangeinto the law as it stands to-day.
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We shall not achieve change by sitting down and deciding on a wholesalesweepingchangeof all our institutions.
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Yet on this occasion, with a far moresweepingchange, they are being given one month's notice.
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That, of course, at once makes an opportunity for a mostsweepingchangein the system under which we have been brought up.
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The time is not ripe for thissweepingchange.
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Many of the offences included in thissweepingchangeare significant offences.
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I do not think that it raises any contentious issue or involves anysweepingchangeof policy.
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It is not acceptable if they are part of a massive,sweepingchangein the overall package of student financial support.
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What happened in the interval to make such asweepingchangedesirable?
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It is asweepingchangewhich would affect the majority, by a long way, of the working people of this country.
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This is the sort ofsweepingchangethe resolutions want to see.
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They have objections because they think that it is dangerous to begin too soon on what they deem to be asweepingchange.
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After all, on any showing, it is an exceedinglysweepingchange.
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So that in making, what might be quite asweepingchangeit would remove from the authority in question any power of modifying charges for 12 months.
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Here, again, is a simplesweepingchange.
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