Meanings of very sweeping in English

His first proposals for raising the money were of a very sweeping nature.

Her youth made her very drastic, very sweeping, in her secret mental assertions.

She must have been the very sweeping of the gutters.

It was a very sweeping assertion that the Psalmist made, and one that incriminates us all.

And here I get at a result concerning Greek art, which is very sweeping and wide indeed.

This provision had a very sweeping application.

Is that very sweeping, sir?

You are very sweeping.

That concern has led to a number of very sweeping proposals in recent years from politicians such as former Labour minister Pat Rabbitte.

Auckland broker OM Financial's Nigel Brunel said even then it was a very sweeping statement to say almost all of the credits were fraudulent.

She admitted it to be very sweeping, triumphant and loud, a fine braying of trumpets from the rise to the fall of the curtain.

This was a very sweeping measure, which at a blow superseded the whole system of ecclesiastical courts, so far at least as wills were concerned.

Not unless it were also matter of choice whether we would become the very sweepings and blemish of creation.

"You make a very sweeping declaration," said one of the friends of Rowley.

[Footnote: This seems a very sweeping and extraordinary prejudicial statement.

"That is a very sweeping assertion," responded her teacher in a somewhat doubtful tone.