• But these are small matters when measured against the sweep of Harry Potter's new adventure.

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  • The sweep of his gathering authority and the history of Latin socialist revolutionaries suggest that he does.

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  • This historical adventure novel captures the sweep of human nature in a world that we'll never see again.

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  • Nash's 14th goal tied it with 4:49 remaining, but the Rangers couldn't complete the sweep of the home-and-home series.

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  • Look, he says, at the town halls of Leeds and Manchester, or the sweep of Newcastle's Grey Street and Edinburgh's Princes Street.

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  • We tend to think of the sweep of destiny as stretching across many months and years before culminating in decisive moments we call history.

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  • And the fate of Matthew, the middle-class heir to Downton, has the sweep of the best melodrama helped along by the elegant performance of Dan Stevens.

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  • Along the sweep of the Southern Alps, beyond Aoraki, is Twizel.

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  • Pan Am is the right airline to use to convey the sweep of decades, because of what it was and because of what it, unfortunately, became.

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  • Mr Abulafia is too conscientious a historian to speculate much about the future, or even to prejudge how the modern age will fit into the sweep of Mediterranean history.

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  • It also takes a deft reading of history to show that the sweep of the past 2, 000 years has led precisely to the values of New Labour's third term.

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  • So, for example, just because a business calls an executive benefit a stock option or a severance pay plan doesn't necessarily remove the plan from the sweep of the law.

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  • In the sweep of British and Irish history, it is "hugely symbolic", it does underline the progress that has been made in Northern Ireland and the shared hopes for a brighter future.

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  • 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.

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  • The sweep of the continent into the sea creates a biomass buffet at the tip of the Louisiana boot, endowing the area with natural gifts in and near the water, both living and inert.

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  • From the top of the arch, you can gaze back at Sde Dov's single runway, the sweep of the rugged coastline and, on the horizon, the chic marina at Herzliya, the next town up the coast.

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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 view taken by Clint Eastwood, directing from Iris Yamashita's exemplary screenplay, is elegiac, but -- and this is remarkable, given the nature of the production and the sweep of his ambition -- not at all didactic.

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  • The issue for Dell, which lacks the sweep of an IBM or a Hewlett Packard, or even the range of a Cisco, is to figure out how much it can legitimately stake out, and with whom it can partner.

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  • For the museum's Pacific Hall, set to reopen in the fall, Ms. Ide came up with the idea to put a large map on a new wood floor, inlaid with images of islands and letters in contrasting wood to draw visitors into the sweep of the original Pacific migration to Hawaii.

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  • All but three of the applications would place new reactors in the broad sweep of the Southeast from Maryland to Texas.

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  • As the wide sweep of the Neretva river runs down from the high ground, it enters the city of Mostar where it narrows between steep-sided river banks.

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  • And it is not, in the end, so peculiar to dart back and forth between great ideas, the broad sweep of history and the day-to-day practicalities of politics.

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  • So he has a vantage point to really speak about the broad sweep of the relationship over the past few decades.

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  • His tale encompasses the vast sweep of modern science, from the infinitesimal to the infinite, from the emission of photons to the expansion of the cosmos.

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  • Because stocks represent the non-stop exponential upward sweep of the collision of innovation overtime contributing to higher earnings.

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  • In 2004, the final game of the AL Championship series between the Yankees and Red Sox drew a 19.4 rating, beating all programming during prime time, including the Red Sox sweep of the Cardinals.

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  • The acting is uniformly good, a fact that helps Midnight's Children paper over some of the inevitable creases caused by the need for narrative ellipsis to capture the sweep and spectrum of the written text.

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  • Mr Logevall peppers the grand sweep of his book with vignettes of remarkable characters, wise and foolish.

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  • This is wise, for the grand sweep of history can be scuppered by more specific problems, and he faces many.

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