Given the sweeping terms of the agreement, the officials declined to speculate what the investigation might uncover or where it might lead.

The adjective (sometimes hyphenated) is still used to describe multiplex communications networks, but in more sweeping terms.

The challenge was cast in sweeping terms of a world split between freedom and repression.

The opponents portray the battle in sweeping terms.

"He spoke in sweeping terms about how the American public no longer cares about these things," said one New Yorker staff member.

On one occasion, Carter, seeking to go beyond technocratic approaches, tried to cast the energy problem in sweeping moral terms.

Although those of us in the criticism business like to talk in sweeping, definitive terms, many establishments resist such reduction.

People have long written about Africa in sweeping terms that would be unimaginable for any other continent.

"This one incident doesn't justify this bill, with its sweeping, undefined terms," he said.

When Gerson discusses Burnett, he talks in sweeping, conceptual terms, not tactical ones.