Elections can sweep Islamists to power, but they can also sweep them out when they fail to perform.

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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.

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Yet anyone who thinks that Miss Bhutto's troubles are over, enabling her to fly back to Pakistan, there to be welcomed by rousing crowds that will sweep her to power, should think again.

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He used his power as a circuit judge on the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans to sweep in on behalf of Philip Morris to halt enforcement of the judgment.

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Mr Hennessy is skilled at detecting great movements in the tectonic plates of politics and diplomacy, and his account of the sweep of a decade in which Britain ceased to be a great power is compelling.

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The Germans did not have the combat power to achieve the war-winning breakthrough that Hitler sought from the surprise offensive, but the panzers' sweep through the Ardennes thoroughly traumatized the Allied high command.

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