Or maybe their beams are pointing in the wrong directions to sweep over the earth.
More deft footwork resulted in another sweep over backward square for four and a second six just cleared long-on.
What we're watching: The NBA season could be over tonight, as San Antonio looks to complete a sweep over the Cleveland Cavaliers to win its fourth championship in nine seasons.
Ozuna had three hits, including a double and a triple, and drove in four runs to help the Miami Marlins complete a three-game sweep over the New York Mets with an 11-6 win on Sunday.
"We wanted to really send a strong message to businesses about this kind of illegal pricing, so we did a very focused sweep over the course of the year, " said the department's commissioner, Jonathan Mintz.
Ike Davis homered and drove in three runs, and Lucas Duda and Omar Quintanilla also hit homers for New York, which came to Miami on a five-game winning streak including a four-game sweep over the Yankees.
Maybe not so much over the great sweep of national policy, but quite probably over spending decisions affecting Northern Ireland in general, and their constituencies in particular.
So he has a vantage point to really speak about the broad sweep of the relationship over the past few decades.
Those breaks give players a chance to recover, but they also mean that even a four-game sweep can last well over a week.
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The Scots are looking for their first autumn clean sweep since 2002 after victories over Fiji and Australia.
Pietersen then pulled Steyn onto the roof of the Greenidge and Haynes stand and completed his 50 from 30 balls with a delightful whipped shot through mid-wicket for four, but his magnificent innings ended in the next over when a sweep off Botha looped his old adversary Graeme Smith at short fine leg.
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Simmons collected 4-19 from his three overs of medium pace, Dilshan falling in the 18th over when another reverse sweep only found the tall figure of Sulieman Benn at backward point.
This has allowed negative sentiment to sweep across financial markets on worries over the U.S. debt ceiling, and a warning by Fitch Ratings that American, British and Spanish ratings are under threat.
Loye hit a six in the first over of the Lancashire reply and added another with a slog sweep off Graham Wagg, before Vincent recorded his first 20-over hundred.
It is time to sweep away the cobwebs of secrecy which hang over far too much government activity.
The 1990 World Series, for example, a four game sweep by the small-market Cincinnati Reds over the Oakland Athletics, had the two highest-rated programs of the week.
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Tillakaratne Dilshan lifted the hosts past the 200-mark with an enterprising 44 from 46 balls before being bowled in the penultimate over while attempting an ambitious reverse sweep.
You would be forgiven for believing, due to the tone of comment, that some kind of financial catastrophe is only just over the horizon and destined to sweep in at any moment.
From this Iron Age hill fort, built in 400 BC, the views sweep down from the North York Moors and over to the Vale of York and the Vale of Mowbray to the distant Pennines, a low-rise mountain range sometimes dubbed "the backbone of England".
The off-spinner had already turned his first delivery sharply to remove JP Duminy for seven, caught at slip, and in his second over De Villiers went for a sweep with England's appeal for a catch at leg-slip upheld by on-field umpire Tony Hill.
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He followed up a straight six off Broad with a reverse sweep for four in Adil Rashid's first over.
Over the last few years, a sweep of hip boutique hotels has opened in Ljubljana, in part to cater to visiting epicureans.
But if I had been a unit chief at FBI headquarters reading it last summer, my first thought would have been that such a sweep would lead to a massive hue and cry over "profiling" of Muslims.
The freedom fighters have received little except broken promises over the years from the government they helped sweep into power.
Victory over England would seal a first French clean sweep since 2004.
Shah finally struck a couple of sixes, but Collingwood then lost two of his stumps to a Jacques Kallis delivery that he could have hit for four and in the next over James Foster was caught attempting a reverse sweep.
The people included in Hampstead Parish Churchyard's audio guide, buried over the past 250 years, include a chimney sweep and a body-snatching victim.
After nine overs, South Africa had advanced to 88-0, but Haq dismissed both Kallis and Smith in his second over, both paying the price for poorly-executed sweep shots.
The first ball of the next over was launched high down the ground by Guptill and cleared the sightscreen, while three fours in an over from McCullum, the winning hit a nonchalant reverse sweep.
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