It was a campaign of sweeping promises: sweeping and explicit.

But perhaps his most sweeping promise was to "end the I.R.S. as we know it."

That was a rather sweeping promise, after all.

She gasped, amazed that a near stranger would make such a sweeping promise when he scarcely knew her.

Always ready for a sound bite, he gave bombastic interviews, cheekily delivering bold statements and sweeping promises.

It was a night in which there were a few sweeping promises.

The most sweeping promises came from China.

Then he turned to the economy, made sweeping promises, and provided few details.

Mr. Bush, while offering no such sweeping promise, does propose a federal government reading program, based upon successes he has had in Texas.

Unscrupulous recruiting agents siphon off their wages, they say, and make sweeping promises about jobs that prove false.