In the past radiation was a clumsy and undiscriminating weapon, killing cancer cells and healthy cells in one sweep.
Since the rate at which small drops sweep one another up to form large drops varies with the square of their diameter, such drops are too tiny to make rain.
But there's one force whose sweep holds even the mightiest business in thrall: the trillions of dollars, euros and yen that slosh around the planet, seemingly on the command of myriad trading desks.
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.
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"Banks also want to sweep bad news into one year's accounts to make future years look better, " he added.
The sweep began Tuesday when one person was arrested in France and eight others were brought in for questioning in Switzerland, according to Swiss and Belgian authorities.
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The sweep began Tuesday when one person was arrested in France and at least two others in Switzerland, said Anja Bijnens at the state prosecutor's office in Brussels.
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They have lost their source code, leaked an upcoming redesign, had to restore data on at least one server, and have to sweep for any shells the attackers may have left behind.
This time around, there was so much hunger for a winner that Bush could actually hope to do something no one had ever managed before: sweep the money primary, the first big test of whom the insiders like, and pretty much coast through the ones that involve actual voters.
Well, the Academy certainly saw to that, granting the film 8 nominations and making history with the first sweep of acting nominations by one film in 32 years.
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.
Scotland's most-capped player Wright struck two boundaries off Agarkar but the seamer claimed his second wicket with a slower one that Hamilton missed as he tried to sweep.
If one ventures beyond the single phrase that has been parsed with a verve usually reserved for literary critics, one gains a sense of Holder's sweep and intelligence in examining the racial landscape.
Here is an historic adventure of extraordinary power waiting to sweep you away to exotic lands as one of the most popular writers of our time conquers new storytelling worlds.
The sweep began Tuesday, when French police arrested one person and Swiss police arrested six others, said Anja Bijnens at the state prosecutor's office in Brussels.
After he skewed one and JP Duminy was lbw cheaply having missed a sweep, the redoubtable Mark Boucher shared 78 with Amla before mis-timing to cover which brought about the declaration.
The Yankees defeat by the Detroit Tigers last evening, completing a four game sweep in the American League Championship Series, was one of the worst Yankees post-season losses ever, but certainly not the most painful.
Then, 95 years and one day later, another raid occurred: A federal predawn sweep with helicopters resulted in the arrests of three local officials and eight other people, including relatives, for charges ranging from laundering money to trafficking guns to a cartel.
But it's that kind of broad historical view in which you don't really think in terms of blaming one guy or five guys, you think in terms of a broad sweep of history.
The sweep began after army raids of gangs belonging to the Gulf Cartel, one of Mexico's strongest, led to the discovery of lists of officers in the gangs' pay, according to state judicial officials.
Their seriousness of purpose does make one wish, however, that Mr. Wall's own engagement with the broader sweep of history was a little more robust.
Wild galloping charges sweep back and forth across the plain as riders try to wrest the carcass from one another.
Detroit stretched its lead from one run to three and went on to a 3-0 victory and a four-game sweep.
It is at this point that the sweep of life catches up the mere personality of the performer and while the individual (the undivided one), becomes greater, the personal becomes less personal.
The landslide of 1997 saw Keighley, one of nine West Yorkshire Conservative seats, fall into Labour's hands to give the party a clean sweep of all 23 constituencies in the county, and deliver Ann Cryer to Westminster on a 10% swing and a majority above 7, 000.
Like George Miller, Barney Frank and the other liberals produced by Vietnam and Watergate, Mr. Waxman belongs to a cohort whose power has been checked -- one way or the other -- by Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton's New Democrat tendencies, the Republican sweep of 1994 and George W. Bush.
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