Some House freshmen are proposing a less sweeping measure to overhaul campaign finance practices.

Voters appeared to feel that such a sweeping measure would further undermine the economy.

Last year, he managed to push through a sweeping measure to reduce individual and corporate taxes.

"But we hope this is only a first step and that it opens the door to more sweeping multilateral measures."

The vote on the sweeping measure to bar job discrimination was 65 to 34.

Indeed, even if Chinese leaders acknowledge the problem, they remain resistant to any sweeping measures that could threaten the country's development.

We may not be the best company in the world, but that hardly justifies such sweeping measures.

But he has resisted calls for more sweeping measures.

Israel intends to continue those steps, and perhaps strengthen them, but did not approve any sweeping new measures, Israeli officials said.

Predictably, the sweeping measures now being introduced are not free of such defects.