Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

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• In November 1928, as the beneficiaries of this revulsion, the Liberals made a clean sweep of every seat on the borough council.
• By 1991 his constituency had made a clean sweep of all twelve local council seats, that's in part to Nellist’s high-profile efforts.
• George W. Bush made a clean sweep of the region once the dust had cleared from the Florida debacle more than a month after the election, adding 124 votes from elsewhere for a scrape-by total of 271 votes to claim the nation's highest office.
• Scott Russell, who had sewn up the Yokohama 750cc Supersport championship earlier in the year, completed a clean sweep of the series races with his ninth victory in Miami.
• He achieved a clean sweep winning four professional majors in a span of 294 days.
• India made a clean sweep of medals in the boys’ under-12 and girls’ under 10 sections.
• You plan the future, you lose yourselves in reveries of economical systems derived from what is; whereas what's wanted is a clean sweep and a clear start for a new conception of life.
• These were unfortunate selections and Mr. Quincy, who had the consular appointments in charge, so made an almost clean sweep in that branch of the service, removing Republicans and putting Democrats in with “unprecedented vivacity.”
• The Totalitarian State is now making a clean sweep of all our old notions of liberty, even more than the French Revolution made a clean sweep of all the old ideas of loyalty.
• [In 1951] Colby had an almost clean sweep of his closest official advisors.