With almost no support in the South, Lincoln swept the North and was elected president in 1860.

With a steady five game lead for the Wild Card, the hope of a playoff spot seemed secured, but the Brewers struggled in September, first getting swept by the New York Mets, and then just over a week later, getting swept in four games by the Philadelphia Phillies, losing their lead in the Wild Card.

With the widespread use of machine guns in World War I and in subsequent conflicts, battlegrounds were swept with automatic weapons fire.

Gone With the Wind swept the major awards, including Best Actress, which went to Vivien Leigh.

With a strength of 60, 000 professional soldiers, the Romans quickly swept across Galilee and by 69 marched on Jerusalem.

With the Tsar himself present in nominal command ( actual command was in the hands of veteran German-born career-soldier Count Wittgenstein ), a Russian army of 100, 000 men, supported by the Black sea fleet, swept aside the Ottoman forces in the Romanian Principalities, crossed the Danube, and laid siege to Silistra, Varna and Shumla, the key Ottoman-held fortresses in Rumelia ( Bulgaria ).

With the government nearly bankrupt, and series of devastating structural fires that swept through the downtown area and nearly took down every high rise the city had so feverishly built, the city was nearly destroyed.

With the onset of the depression and the implosion of the government of Simon Fraser Tolmie, the Liberals easily swept back to power in the 1933 election.

With Bird's playmaking ability and Jackson's scoring and rebounding, the team made the playoffs for the first time in 2002, but were swept by the Los Angeles Sparks.

With both forward and back swept wings, the rear of the wing will stall first.

With a near-jet class top speed of 920 km / h, it is an unusual in combining swept wings with propeller propulsion and remains the fastest propeller powered production aircraft.

With the dissolution of the Senate, the last remnants of the Old Republic were swept away.

With a superheterodyne architecture, the voltage-controlled oscillator is swept through a range of frequencies, enabling the consideration of the full frequency range of the instrument.

With the Japanese exiting the country throughout the summer of 1922, panic swept the White Russian community.

With 250 men, under Captain Benjamin Jaurès, they swept into Shimonoseki and destroyed a small town, together with at least one artillery emplacement.

With seemingly few commercial prospects for the current facility, Atlanta leaders quoted by the paper speculate Fanplex may ultimately be swept up in large-scale redevelopment of areas around the stadium.

With a strength of 60, 000 professional soldiers, the Romans quickly swept across the Galilee, and by 68 marched on Jerusalem.

With determination the Chinese swept forward, penetrating the Australian perimeter before being ejected by an equally determined counter-attack by 6 Platoon with Sherman tanks in support.

With 50 m to go, Gammoudi had the lead, until Mills swept past Gammoudi to win the gold medal.

With the first round draft pick of 1988, the Suns chose Dan Majerle, and the franchise had a turn-around season, winning 55 games and losing 27 before advancing all the way to the Western Conference's Finals that season, where they were swept by the Los Angeles Lakers.

With The New York Times finding that Senator Nixon's performance had given the Republican ticket " a shot in the arm ", Eisenhower and Nixon swept to victory in November, with the Republicans narrowly taking both Houses of Congress.

With Gord Labossiere, star defenseman Noel Price and goaltender Bruce Landon ( a name that subsequently loomed large in Springfield hockey annals ) the team had a winning record in the 1969 season, reaching the Cup finals before being swept by the Buffalo Bisons.

With fresh momentum, and most of the Cup drivers running limited schedules, Stenhouse swept both Iowa races for his first two Nationwide Series victories, and held off former Cup driver Elliott Sadler for the Nationwide Series championship.

With the thicker airfoils, a cantilever structure contained entirely within the wing was possible, and it had the added bonus that thick airfoils were more efficient than the thin ones previously in use.

With a lifting canard, the weight of the aircraft is shared between the main wing and the canard wing.

With the help of the patchwork girl Scraps, Bungle the Glass Cat ( another of Dr. Pipt's creations ), the Woozy, Dorothy, the Shaggy Man, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, Ojo gathers all of these supplies but the left wing — the Tin Woodman will not allow any living thing to be killed, even to save another's life.

With fixed wing UAVs, payloads can also be attached to the airframe, but aerodynamics of the aircraft with the payload must be assessed.

With ailerons in the neutral position, the wing on the outside of the turn develops more lift than the opposite wing due to the variation in airspeed across the wing span, which tends to cause the aircraft to continue to roll.

With this stylish, intense indictment of the assassination of a leftist political leader by a right wing government cabal in his native Greece, director Costa-Gavras struck a nerve that resonated here and around the globe .”

With two F-15C / D squadrons and an air control squadron, the wing ’ s mission was to deploy worldwide and provide air superiority and air control.

With the activation of the 704th Strategic Missile Wing ( Atlas ) at Cooke on July 1, the 392d was assigned to the wing.

With the activation of the 9th SRW at Beale, the wing absorbed the assets of the provisional 4200th SW.

With the restructuring of the Air Force and the disestablishment of Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) in the early 1990s the wing first came under Air Combat Command ( ACC ) in 1992 and then under Air Force Space Command ( AFSPC ) in 1993.

With a wing span of 16. 3 meters ( 53. 5 feet ), the airplane will be able to cruise at approximately 100 kilometers per hour ( 62 miles per hour ) on power from the fuel cell.

With Martov's return from European exile in early May, the left wing of the party challenged the party's majority led by Tsereteli at the first post-revolutionary party conference on May 9, but the Right wing prevailed 44 – 11.

With a few exceptions ( e. g. ), hoverflies are distinguished from other flies by a spurious vein, located parallel to the fourth longitudinal wing vein.

With the re-designation to a HQ USAF-controlled ( AFCON ) designation, the 57th FWW gave the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis a permanent lineage and history that the provisional TAC MAJCOM wing could not carry.

With Howe personally leading the right wing of the attack, the first two assaults were firmly repulsed by the colonial defenders.

With Ludwig Quidde ( Nobel Peace Prize winner of 1927 ) and others the party had a pacifist wing which left the Democrats in 1930.

With their much lower wing loading, free-flight aircraft fly much slower than the engine-powered radio-controlled aircraft that many people first think of when ‘ model aircraft ’ is mentioned.

With increasing span-wise flow the boundary layers on the surface of the wing have longer to travel, and so are thicker and more susceptible to transition to turbulence or flow separation, also the effective aspect ratio of the wing is less and so air " leaks " around the wing tips reducing their effectiveness.