The air that swept across the parched inland prairie was soft and cool, with just a hint of the humidity that soaks Florida in the summer months.

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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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Max was swept up and lifted high in the air and finally set down on the shoulders of the Bull.

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North and west, the Bosnian Serbs are on the defensive for the first time, swept aside by Croat artillery, Bosnian army infantry -- and an air force courtesy of NATO.

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PCs, of course, swept through the workplace and in only a decade most mainframes, and their high cost, air conditioned data centers, were gone.

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In a fight against any adversary possessing halfway decent air defenses, unmanned aircraft must remain tethered to the brains of human operators or they will quickly be swept from the skies.

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In March 1999, Piccard was on the final leg of an around-the-world journey by hot air balloon the first-ever nonstop flight of its kind when his Breitling Orbiter 3 swept low over the Egyptian desert and skidded to a halt on the corrugated plains.

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