swept aside

Concerns about a lack of fiscal union to support it were swept aside at Maastricht by the feeling that the euro was making history.

Xenophobia stoked by years of state propaganda has been swept aside by gratitude for NATO intervention.

His personal force and genius , combined with so much persuasion and contrivance, swept aside many obstacles .

No one disputes that the opposition Orange Democratic Movement swept aside government parties in the parliamentary vote.

Interruptions were swept aside with a wave of his hand.

It may well have been engulfed in the vast mass of congratulatory messages which were swept aside by urgent work .

All desks and chairs were swept aside, and then they began to dance.

The Dallas Mavericks took a giant leap towards this year's NBA title Friday, as they swept aside the Miami Heat in front of their own fans.

I swept aside the veil from my face, I tore the ruby chain from my neck and flung it in his path.

Interruptions were swept aside with a wave of the hand.

But he could also find his administration blown off-course or even swept aside by popular outrage.

They were swept aside with the advent of electronic trading.

He swept aside the papers on his desk to make room for the large book.

But in December 2006, Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia with American help and swept aside Sheik Sharif's Islamist alliance.

Shareholders were wiped out. Top managers were swept aside.

Your ideas would be swept aside.

All these limitations and forbidden regions were swept aside with Newton's monumental work The Principia (1687).

And all these things are swept aside By bloody hands time can't deny.

You have to learn to live here, not one day have been killed or swept aside to benefit! This is the most important!