So to try to create a lot of new economic activity in poor neighborhoods is to swim against the great sweeping tide of urban life in America.

And if his guess was wrong... He didn't want to think about the consequences of a fascist terror coup, with Europe so unsettled from the recent, sweeping tide of change.

Now they did battle with the contraflow, a fresh sweeping tide that met and pushed back at an opposing force, creating a violent meshing, a rolling turbulence.

It was the English game of baseball, Block suggests, that had arrived in America as part of "a sweeping tide of cultural migration" during the colonial period.

There is, as yet, no evidence of a sweeping tide of freedom and democracy through the Middle East.

He fought as hard as he knew how to hold the sweeping tide of blackness at bay.

The young, the old, the frail are all sucked into its sweeping tide.

Taran sounded his horn and with the Commot horsemen galloped to join the sweeping tide.

"The memory of that sweeping tide lingers with all of us who faced it," Douglas Fisher, the CCF/NDP member from Port Arthur recalled later.

WHILE visiting Ellis Island at the turn of the 20th century, Henry James wondered how the sweeping tide of immigrants would ultimately affect "the idea of" America.