And then it swept out again, stranding everyone from investment-grade companies to emerging-market oligarchs.
Many of the creatures there were swept out to sea: fish, sea lions and eight Atlantic bottle-nose dolphins.
Four years ago, the voters swept out a conservative city council in favour of a left-of-centre civic party.
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The antics of Westminster have been swept out of Scottish heads and off the front pages of Scottish newspapers.
They were swept out of the playoffs by Phoenix in 2010 and stunned as the top seed in 2011 by Memphis.
Fomalhaut's disc has a hole in the middle, of the kind that any planets around the star would have swept out.
Having carried marginal candidates into the House on his coat-tails, the president normally sees them swept out again two years later.
All of this comes almost two years after a revolution in Haiti that swept out a government without leaving much in its place.
Rescuers hoped that many would be found, but were fearful that some had been swept out to sea or buried in piles of debris.
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And yes, they'd co-own the catastrophe and risk being swept out.
Some Moscow watchers are predicting that the government and even President Boris Yeltsin might be swept out of office should they fail to get a grip on the situation.
Several of the tiny parties and personalities that were able to hold to ransom successive governments, and block their attempts at reform, have been swept out of the legislature.
The search was initially launched near the town's harbour wall, known locally as the pier, after a fisherman reported seeing the boy being swept out to sea by a wave.
Early-morning swimmers in the hotel's huge pool, which is surrounded by four storys of rooms, were swept out and up as the sea poured in through every passageway and corridor.
The major search off the north Wales coast is the second in a week - on Monday, 12-year-old Sarah Louise Roberts drowned after being swept out to sea, while playing at Newborough on Anglesey.
The first column I wrote for FORBES was about fund managers' being swept out into New York Bay mumbling Computer Technology, Parvin Dohrmann and Four Seasons as their heads bobbed between the floating orange peels.
Before this season one in which they lost All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo for the season to a torn knee ligament they had made the postseason under coach Doc Rivers six times without ever being swept out of the first round.
While the wood in the study was placed there by scientists, wood naturally finds its way into the ocean as dead trees fall into rivers and are swept out to sea, when storm debris is taken by surging waters and even from shipwrecks.
The way that Carter left the Shah of Iran to flap in the breeze and eventually to be swept out of Iran by Khomeini and his band of not-so-merry fundamentalist pranksters hardly inspired confidence in the U.S. by the petro-wealthy of the Arab world.
The just-completed interleague series between the Yankees and Reds in Cincinnati probably had some people reflecting on the 1976 World Series, when the Bombers were swept out in four straight by the Big Red Machine of Pete Rose, Joe Morgan and Johnny Bench.
Yanukovich wanted to get rid of the opposition which had first swept him out of power and which was still questioning his legitimacy, and so he turned to a law that was all too able to accommodate such ulterior motives.
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Chatting Obama workers swept in and out of a Coffee Perk in College Park, headquarters for people being sent out to canvas the surrounding area.
It wasn't until he went online he found out Egypt was swept up in a revolution against President Hosni Mubarak.
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The aggressive selling by smart money continued through the morning and finally the bids were swept and the stock fell out of bed in the early afternoon as shown on the chart.
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Abandoned homes dot one neighborhood where Sandy swept more than a dozen houses out to sea, leaving behind driveways leading nowhere.
In 1997-98, another round of currency disasters swept through Asia, and also knocked out Brazil and Russia.
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The Japanese government has estimated that the tsunami swept about 5 million tons of wreckage out to sea.
But when Mr Kejriwal spoke out last week, it swept the air waves and became the biggest talking point in an increasingly cynical nation.
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