sweeping conclusion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsweepingandconclusion
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sweeping
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈswiː.pɪŋ/us/ˈswiː.pɪŋ/
affecting many things or ...
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conclusion
noun
uk/kənˈkluː.ʒən/us/kənˈkluː.ʒən/
the final part ...
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(Definition ofsweepingandconclusionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I therefore cannot agree either with the opinion or with thesweepingconclusionthat 40 years of assistance to developing countries has been a catastrophe.
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It is, to say the least, far from clear that thatsweepingconclusionhas yet been thoroughly tested and publicly justified.
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I do not want to draw my comments to asweepingconclusion.
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But that attitude involves drawing a rather large andsweepingconclusionfrom a fairly small basis of argument.
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Such sweeping conclusions, however, are beyond the scope of this article.
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Shields demonstrates that such approaches as modernization theory and world-systems analysis need to take into account more systematically local variations when reaching sweeping conclusions.
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Therefore, it is not possible to make sweeping conclusions about the potential for organic systems to feed the world by simply comparing yields between organic and conventional systems.
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This is not a criticism of educational researchers, but of the readiness of opinion-formers and policy-makers to draw sweeping conclusions from the slenderest of bases.
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He is always willing to draw very sweeping conclusions from evidence which does not necessarily point in the direction that he suggests.
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He should be careful not to draw sweeping conclusions from such relatively flimsy evidence.
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But he does not advance his case by drawing sweeping conclusions about the causes of the present unrest and distress.
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I suggest that in our bewilderment we ought to beware of a tendency to draw sweeping conclusions.
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