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"Button", a gem mid-album, is all metallic robot-as-real-boy fantasy, not as twee as you initially think, with an intricately-layered atonal background that gradually rises in short swathes to interrupt the '60s sun.

PopMatters 2008

You should also include the W3C’s Contact schema, which has been around for almost eight years and is used in swathes of Semantic Web data.

Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh) | FactoryCity 2008

Also, there is now an average of 38 people in these urban areas for every 100 in the vast rural swathes, which is a 16\% increase in relative vote share.

Asia Times Online 2009

Suicide bombing therefore is fundamentally immoral against the actions acceptable to wide swathes of humanity, irrespective of faith compass.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Of Madness and Muslim Martyrdom: The Ideal Age of Indoctrination MD Qanta Ahmed 2011

Suicide bombing therefore is fundamentally immoral against the actions acceptable to wide swathes of humanity, irrespective of faith compass.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Of Madness and Muslim Martyrdom: The Ideal Age of Indoctrination MD Qanta Ahmed 2011

Mr. PURDUM: Well, he certainly - I think he wants to radically reconceive the mission of government, and he thinks that great swathes of what the government has come to do over the 20th century it has no business doing.

'Vanity Fair' Writer: What Will Speaker Boehner Do? 2010

To the degree that some aspects of the Tea Party think that large swathes of what the government does is unconstitutional or, you know, think that Congress 'actions under the Commerce Clause have, you know, have usurped powers correctly reserved to the states, I don't think John Boehner subscribes to that at all.

'Vanity Fair' Writer: What Will Speaker Boehner Do? 2010

Suicide bombing therefore is fundamentally immoral against the actions acceptable to wide swathes of humanity, irrespective of faith compass.

Qanta Ahmed, MD: Of Madness and Muslim Martyrdom: The Ideal Age of Indoctrination MD Qanta Ahmed 2011

To the degree that some aspects of the Tea Party think that large swathes of what the government does is unconstitutional or, you know, think that Congress 'actions under the Commerce Clause have, you know, have usurped powers correctly reserved to the states, I don't think John Boehner subscribes to that at all.

'Vanity Fair' Writer: What Will Speaker Boehner Do? 2010

Mr. PURDUM: Well, he certainly - I think he wants to radically reconceive the mission of government, and he thinks that great swathes of what the government has come to do over the 20th century it has no business doing.

'Vanity Fair' Writer: What Will Speaker Boehner Do? 2010