Mesrine and Besse eluded the subsequent massive sweep of the area by taking a farmer and his family hostage and forcing him to drive them to safety.

But the ; name, in white lettering just below the massive sweep of her bow, was still not legible.

Lebanese authorities issued a warrant for al-Tufayli's arrest and Lebanese Army units conducted a massive sweep of the Beqaa.

By 5 February 1902, Kitchener's blockhouse lines were completed and he sent 9,000 men on a massive sweep through the countryside.

Licciardi's arrest came around the same time as that of a massive anti-Mafia sweep in Italy and the United States.

Since 90% of the population resided on the coastal plain and in the Delta, massive sweeps into thinly populated areas like the Highlands, or remote border jungle, were deemed counterproductive.

Even searches from the air might fail to spot the obvious, and he was on the wrong side of the border for any sort of massive sweep.

Even more telling, such massive sweeps failed to cripple their targets and deliver the big battles sought by the Americans.

It was double-ended and open like a huge ship's lifeboat; it had a beam of fully twenty feet, with massive sweeps for rowing in a calm.

All the steersmen were down, pin-cushioned, and Tito was handling the massive sweep alone, gasping black curses, his braced legs knots of straining thews.