He became a magnet for Venezuelans who craved a strong hand to sweep away endemic corruption.
In 1998, he was elected president on a pledge to sweep away the old system.
The FDP would sweep away a thicket of tax rates, leaving just three: 10%, 25% and 35%.
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It is time to sweep away the cobwebs of secrecy which hang over far too much government activity.
But as the new broom, Mr Breen had a strong incentive to sweep away whatever dirt he uncovered.
But it was lack of faith in the political governance of India that seemed to sweep away other emotions.
But he would do more to sweep away the centralised command and control.
He also said he'd sweep away what he calls the values of the 1968 student revolution that he says have degraded France.
Andrew Smith at the Department for Work and Pensions would like to sweep away the whole idea of a mandatory retirement age.
To sweep away the short-term thinking that has plagued society for decades.
Implicitly, the message to the students was that success awaited them if only they could sweep away the impediments to stardom, including S.P.s.
Mr Khan has pledged to sweep away the rampant corruption plaguing Pakistani politics, in part by calling for an end to foreign aid.
By turning the bomb into a marketable commodity, Mr Khan and his network helped sweep away the barriers to entry into the nuclear business.
The report wants to scrap school league tables and sweep away the current Sats at age 11 in England (as has already happened in Wales).
Can Labour really sweep away the capping of council budgets and compulsory competitive tendering for local services, and still keep the public finances in order?
Water sweeping off the mountains also causes floods, which destroy irrigation canals and can even sweep away the mud huts in which most rural Afghans live.
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But as good a piece of news as it was for President Bill Clinton, Judge Susan Webber Wright's ruling doesn't sweep away all of the president's problems.
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Sometimes a big blue hand would come down out of the sky and sweep away one or more levels of the square tower, or even the whole thing.
Combined with Russians' traditional uneasiness about the approach of winter, this risks public panic, which could sweep away Mr Yeltsin, Mr Chernomyrdin, and who knows what else besides.
Without the enzyme, the body is unable to effectively "clean up" the connective tissue in the bones, meaning it can't sweep away damaged cellular detritus or foreign bacteria.
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"Nowadays, it is common sense that if the party doesn't sweep away all of its bad elements, it might follow in the path of the former Soviet Union, " he says.
Peter Morici, professor at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, says we still need a bad bank to sweep away the toxic assets and bad loans.
Mr Orban promised to sweep away corrupt Socialist-era networks.
They do not share the old guard's view that there is a magic key to be found in the right words, slogan and circumstances which will sweep away voters' inhibitions about independence.
Many of these areas are changing or disappearing as high-rise housing and upscale buildings move in and sweep away the old neighborhoods, sparking controversy and discussions about what Rio is and should be.
If re-elected, Mr Cardoso must seize the opportunity of Brazil's current travails to persuade Congress to sweep away the constitutional entitlements (including automatic transfers to states and municipalities) that have made government spending so tenacious.
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How did the seemingly innocuous devaluation of the Thai baht in July 1997 set off a financial whirlwind that devastated Asia and Russia, and that looked for a stormy few weeks in the following September as if it might sweep away the global financial system?
While her poetic prose sweep you away, Morrie's simple wisdom has the same affect.
Here is an historic adventure of extraordinary power waiting to sweep you away to exotic lands as one of the most popular writers of our time conquers new storytelling worlds.
Mr Romney would sweep all that away, cut Medicaid sharply and turn Medicare into a voucher-based scheme.
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