"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

She had to tell her mother! And Cazeau! As she thought of him, a whole new sense of life swept over her.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Walking through these historic areas, visitors today might find it hard to believe that a deadly storm swept through the city over four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Anti-Jewish feeling swept Russia and Poland.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Iran's merchants were an important part of the opposition movement that swept Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from power in 1979.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Dozens of houses on the outskirts of the Sicilian city were swept away or flattened by heavy rain and mud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

He says the woman in the truck that was swept into his house was injured and was flown to hospital in Hawaii.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

A massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra created a tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

According to the Ministry of Health, the Asian Tsunami in 2004 swept away or damaged almost two-thirds of health clinics in one Indonesian province.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14

Local police officials say the two soldiers were swept away Wednesday while trying to save supply boxes that fell into the water after being air-dropped.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

Some were released,but many killed. Many Iraqis have also been kidnapped, mostly for ransom,amid the chaos and lawlessness that swept the country in the aftermath of the invasion.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

The mud swept away homes, cars and anything else in its path.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Most of those killed in last week's earthquake died when a landslide triggered by the quake swept boulders as big as trucks across a dozen homes in the village of Cikangkareng.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Leone was hit hard by the tsunami. Last Tuesday, the usually peaceful ocean surged into a mountain of water that swept through the scenic seaside village, on the southwest side of the main island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04