Besides, who's going to cut the grass, or sweep the litter out of the parking lot, or empty the outside trash barrels?
It has instead represented the more recent impulse in our politics to sweep uncomfortable events out of the news, move forward in the Twitter news cycle, or grind it down into no more than partisan pettiness.
Because for a moment it looked as if the party would sweep the old order out of its path, people flocked to it from well beyond its Islamist core.
The government's great mistake, it said, was in trying to second-guess the market by deciding, when it set out the broad sweep of airport policy in 2003, when and where new runways should be built.
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Haeundae Beach in the east of the city is the most popular, with its attractive sweep of soft sand packed out in summer by enthusiastic locals and young international English teachers.
This story unfolded in February 2006, with a furor like that of one of those summer thunderstorms that periodically sweep across the nation's capital, seeming to arise out of nowhere, building rapidly to a loud and frightening climax, and then moving out again, leaving Washingtonians to wonder what had hit them.
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.
Another advantage is that reform could sweep a lot of low-paid people out of income tax altogether.
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When the final numbers come out for the Giants four-game sweep of the Tigers on Fox, expect them to come in at a record or near-record low.
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The issue for Dell, which lacks the sweep of an IBM or a Hewlett Packard, or even the range of a Cisco, is to figure out how much it can legitimately stake out, and with whom it can partner.
Collina insisted he was not disappointed - despite missing out on the chance to referee the "clean sweep" of the Olympic final (1996), Champions League final (1999), World Cup final (2002) and European Championships final.
Roach, who edged off Steyn to Mark Boucher, fell two overs later for just two, and Benn, who struck two fours and two sixes in 24, was out after attempting an outrageous reverse sweep which landed in the hands of the gratfeul Hashim Amla.
But after he was out top-edging a reverse sweep off Patel to Ambrose, the rest of the batting line-up struggled to provide Powell with sufficient support.
The mix of CPU and GPU processing can capture HDR panorama shots without requiring a single-direction sweep, letting a would-be Ansel Adams 'paint' the panorama out of order.
It is one thing for a rogue group of coaches to run out of control, it is another for the governing body to sweep it under the rug.
Gates says he's still figuring out how wide his palette will get, since he has the whole sweep of Grand Crossing and his own experiences to draw from.
Word out of spring training is that after an infielder disintegrated into a cloud of dust while in the batting cage, the coaching staff had to sweep what was left of him into a pan and hope the trainers could figure out what to do.
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Compton missed out on a century when he was bowled attempting a reverse sweep but England A's total of 251-8 gave them a 99-run lead at the close.
You simply sweep your whole pile of chips into old-economy stocks, then puff on a cigar and wait out the coming convergence of valuations.
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