In fact this sweeping assertion seems rather too broad: what they did was impose a single procedural regime.

Two days later, the three went to the Bush-Quayle campaign headquarters and made the same sweeping assertions under the same condition.

The book is notable for its alarming language and sweeping assertions that go far beyond the accepted scientific evidence.

I fished around for some less sweeping assertion.

To the Editor: I can live with your sweeping assertion that philosophy majors like me are in for a lifetime of financial duress.

What is dangerous.is to make sweeping assertions about a whole category of academia.

No, Leigh says - it's a sweeping assertion to get the reader's attention, not evidence.

But over the last few years, some federal courts have rejected that sweeping assertion.

It adds that many of the findings "consist of nothing more than sweeping, conclusory assertions."

A more sweeping and less documented assertion is hard to imagine.