How To Use Upheaval In A Sentence

And even in their efforts to upraise the social revolution -- the great upheaval to which all A Girl Among the Anarchists
Since the late '70s, and the fashion upheaval wrought by punk rock, people have been spearing the little metal pins through their ears or leather jackets.
Despite subsequent upheavals, the French have never seriously considered restoring the monarchy since.
Despite the upheaval resulting from the arrival of Business Casual in the workplace and what has been described as the casualization of America, women rising through management ranks stick to their suits. “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear”
But they can have had little inkling of the social revolution or the economic upheavals that the next half-century had in store. Times, Sunday Times

What I didn't reckon on was that this hormonal upheaval was also going to result in my voice breaking.
We did not want to go through the upheaval of this again. The Sun
This was also a society undergoing huge change and upheaval – phyically as the railways shrank the land and technology changed the world of work from field to factory, mentally as the revelations of Darwin detonated under Christianity. Evil Book Thingy
However, the losses in market value are distributed unevenly, with some regions showing a surprising resilience to the market upheaval.
The loss of his high-paying job caused enormous domestic upheaval.
We interviewed church leaders in that troubled country to find out what the church was doing in the face of cultural upheaval. Christianity Today
Whole sections of records, equivalent to decades of time, may be missing due to miscreant scribes, fires in libraries, or national upheavals leading to disruptions in official diary keeping; these are like sections of cloth missing.
The late 1960s and early 70s were times of great experimentation and upheaval in hymnody.
But the miles brought compensation in other valleys, other bold, black upheavals of rock, and then again bare, boundless yellow plains, and sparsely cedared ridges, and white dry washes, ghastly in the sunlight, and dazzling beds of alkali, and then a desert space where golden and blue flowers bloomed. The Man of the Forest
They are alienated, in the Marxist sense, from the product of their labours and this cannot be changed without revolutionary upheaval and the overthrow of capitalism.
The changes promise radical upheaval. Times, Sunday Times
All this was, it transpired, the result of an upheaval deep within the cell.
Shamsie's attempt to explain political upheaval through interlocking lives is broad-minded, clear-sighted, even valiant. Burnt Shadows: Summary and book reviews of Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie.
And if you don't pay attention to the alarm sounded by the loss of a species then you run the risk of major, cataclysmic upheaval and suffering in the future.
His decision to go in June is no surprise, but is earlier than expected and comes at a time when major upheaval is planned in local enterprise networks.
Third, probably very few of the participants (other than perhaps adventitious semi-professional looters) expected to gain anything in terms of significant personal profit or meaningful social betterment as a consequence of the upheavals in Los Angeles. Matthew Yglesias » Endgame
He proclaimed that the country had exhausted its resources for any sort of upheaval and his rule would focus on the consolidation of the post-Soviet regime.
The continuation of economic austerity policies under these conditions has provoked a wave of upheavals throughout the continent.
It would cause a tremendous upheaval to install a different computer system.
It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ.
What does all this upheaval mean for Britain? Times, Sunday Times
Major upheavals in the game's interface went undocumented, and requests for information rudely refused.
The CPC views language as a "splittist" agent that could crack China along linguistic lines during times of social upheaval. Rebecca Novick: Tibetan Students Reveal China's Identity Crisis
The Boxing Day tsunami and the Sumatran earthquake on March 28, which registered 9 on the Richter scale, have made the world conscious of these massive upheavals of the Earth.
The social upheavals and conflicts, the end of tsarist-style deference, and in particular the flow of peasants into the towns had meant that in public people were uncongenial and at home led narrow lives.
It may also be a harbinger of political upheaval in a country that can ill afford it. Times, Sunday Times
Each character faces calamity and lives in a time of upheaval, and each is influenced by those events.
Few people believed that the Empire could continue unchanged after the upheavals of the war.
Her books, bearing ambitious titles such as Women, Resistance and Revolution, helped shape one of the biggest political upheavals of the 20th century.
Urban economic and political development suffered severely from the social and demographic upheaval set in train during Ivan IV's reign.
Stress, upheaval and changes in routine can all affect biological systems. Times, Sunday Times
During periods of social upheaval or political discord, they experience heightened levels of violence and trauma, both physical and psychological, both within the home and outside it.
It doesn't stack up and it seems the headlong contradictions we are living with could cause serious upheaval in the period ahead.
You are young, just married, and have been through a massive life upheaval. Times, Sunday Times
McConnell's speech may have been partly designed to wake people up to the extent of the upheaval ahead.
This catastrophism was, on the evidence available, an attractive idea, but there was no discussion of the source of the energy to bring these upheavals about, nor any explanation of why and where they occurred as they did.
The losers from this economic upheaval are painfully obvious and audible. Times, Sunday Times
She didn't need any more upheaval in her life. Times, Sunday Times
A merger would inevitably cause short-term upheaval. Times, Sunday Times
Trotsky asserted that, just as an earthquake revealed the layers of earth and rock beneath the surface, so a social upheaval would uncover the layers of society and its myriad forms.
Cyprus, he added, has a future of 'repossessions, bankruptcies, political and social upheaval'. Times, Sunday Times
He became convinced by his reading of astrological and prophet texts that the end of the century would bring a period of great upheaval.
Above all, this is a zone in demographic upheaval as its youthful population races ahead of local capacities to socialise, educate and employ.
Europe was suffering under the Black Death, and the papal schism had brought political and theological upheaval.
But during the political upheavals she found herself a stateless person and was granted British citizenship, though she still returns to Malawi from time to time to visit her family.
The idea of embarking upon yet more revolutionary upheaval seemed anathema.
Eocene a great upheaval occurred; there were foldings and crumplings, igneous rock was thrust into the distorted mass, and the islands were considerably elevated above the sea. The Bontoc Igorot
In many European countries major political upheavals and wars since the 18th century caused dispersion of cultural artefacts such as portraits throughout the world.
If it pleases us to dine together coatless and cuffless, we do so; and no one suggests that a national upheaval is likely to result. Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures
The loss of his high-paying job caused enormous domestic upheaval.
It is often a time of immense upheaval and worry, when your warm and tidy home is turned into a messy and dirty building site. Times, Sunday Times
The arrival of Timothy's new friends had not been the only upheaval in his recent experiences.
Safeguarding the security blanket can be very important in coping with considerable upheaval.
However, this growing opposition did not erupt in open upheavals or mass strikes, at least as far as I can judge.
The political upheavals find an echo in the art of the time.
The unity accord is considered a by-product of upheaval throughout the Middle East. Fatah-Hamas Setback
While Wall Street saw unbridled bonuses and Americans genuflected amidst a fanfare of upheaval, Main Street wasn't allowed to issue to itself the needed trillion and a half dollars to buffer itself from its own rapacious business sector. Matthew Anderson: All Hat, No Cattle
Despite the upheaval, revenue continues to grow, as do jobs however, in many cases those jobs are changing.
This causes some upheaval but the outcome could be very good for you. The Sun
Indeed, the various names of God that forms the heart of Kabbalah are not some mysterious deep-throated unpronounceable words that cause cosmic upheavals.
It is often a time of immense upheaval and worry, when your warm and tidy home is turned into a messy and dirty building site. Times, Sunday Times
Historically, periods of upheaval in the church have always seen a recovery led first by the religious or monastic orders; the diocesan clergy and episcopal hierarchy then follow suit, returning to orthodoxy.
Instead of focusing on stable conservatism, some emphasize episodic radicalism and periods of dramatic upheaval.
Historically, as we have seen, the country has been rent by various upheavals, sometimes of a quite violent nature.
Did you experience many changes and upheavals? 50 Ways to Become a Self-Confident Woman
Sienna's year has been marked by violent or overwhelming turbulence or upheaval.
And it's here, in my view, that we can start to analyse why this growth among the world's wealthiest is leading us, ineluctably, towards a global social upheaval.
That it occurred during a time of great social upheaval in America and the broader west only amplifies its perceived impact.
There are huge political and social upheavals that are convulsing the nation.
Consequently, industrial action involving lockouts would entail enormous social and political upheaval.
We also offer an insight into how fund managers are repositioning their portfolios to take account of the upheavals taking place in the eurozone. Times, Sunday Times
Wherever there is political upheaval, invariably there are refugees.
The social world that allowed a woman to be first a spy, then a financially successful playwright and poet was one of enormous upheaval. Smithsonian Mag
Harding-which had always seemed like the natural climax of the season-was premised on the title concept of the "return to normalcy": that is, after a period in which the country suffered its involvement in the gruesome Great War and went through a period of reformist upheaval at home, it was time for everyone to calm down and focus on quietly prospering. TIME.com: Top Stories
For such a kind, gentle, and compassionate person, the upheaval of aggression has ceased.
The recent upheavals were so unpopular that it would be a brave government to implement anything like that again.
Yet four years into the second Chechen war, victory still eludes Russia, and there are signs that the upheaval is spilling into Ingushetia and Dagestan.
Yes, the reader learns much about recent upheavals in Iranian life, but there is more here than the sad but familiar story of political exile.
In the non-diagetic music there are fluid connective moments where Africa meets Mississippi meets modern Los Angeles with just the appropriate intimations of the conflict that had been wrought by spatial upheaval.
At the precise moment that they had needed stability they had, instead, opted for upheaval and change. Times, Sunday Times
After weeks of upheaval caused by the Lovers Lane shut off, the surprise two week closure of Leigh Road, the main arterial road from Leigh to Atherton on Monday, caused bedlam.
Our foreparents lived through sea changes, upheavals so cataclysmic, so devastating we may never appreciate the fortitude and resilience required to survive them.
Simon manages to imply whole whirling masses of emotional upheaval in but a few words and lines of melody.
This caused major upheavals in the weather across many parts of the world and also boosted global temperatures. Times, Sunday Times
Such distance is based on the insight that all of the upheaval is ultimately just a non-substantial proliferation of semblances that do not really concern the innermost kernel of our being.
The first tract we had passed, where the confusion was so extreme, must be the part that lay nearest the bare land; in proportion as the glacier left the land, it became less disturbed: In the haycock district the disturbance had not produced cracks in the surface to any extent, only upheaval here and there. The South Pole~ Through the Mountains
That is what gives them resilience to face suffering and to meet upheavals with a degree of calm, to change constantly and yet remain changeless, which is the quality of India herself. True Liberation Of Women
But during the political upheavals she found herself a stateless person and was granted British citizenship, though she still returns to Malawi from time to time to visit her family.
And beneath this thick canopy the unseen deep would literally "boil as a pot," wildly tempested from below; while from time to time more deeply seated convulsion would upheave sudden to the surface vast tracts of semi-molten rock, soon again to disappear, and from which waves of bulk enormous would roll outwards, to meet in wild conflict with the giant waves of other convulsions, or return to hiss and sputter against the intensely heated and fast foundering mass, whose violent upheaval had first elevated and sent them abroad. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
We also offer an insight into how fund managers are repositioning their portfolios to take account of the upheavals taking place in the eurozone. Times, Sunday Times
A terrific industrial upheaval at the present moment might be dangerous from the standpoint of a democratic People's Peace.
strangely incurious about the cause of the political upheaval surrounding them
In 10 years the population had more than tripled from 4,000 to almost 13,000 causing much social upheaval with so many ‘newcomers’ arriving so quickly.
It is clear from the major upheavals faced by farming in recent years that agriculture is changing.
This was the rebel, taking advantage of the upheavals in Nagorny-Karabakh, who fought to establish his own breakaway state. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
In each of those episodes the test result was comprehensive failure leading to political and economic upheaval. Times, Sunday Times
Some would like to go out, but dread the upheaval it causes their family. Times, Sunday Times
This paper tentatively identifies two lineaments and a fault that may relate to sinistral strike-slip faulting in the pre-Paradox Formation basement beneath Upheaval Dome.
If your house is not a "mudsill" you may rest your sill logs upon posts or stone piles; in either case, in the Northern States, they should extend three feet below the ground, so as to be below frost-line and prevent the upheaval of the spring thaw from throwing your house "out of plumb. Shelters, Shacks and Shanties
It was faced with the greatest social upheaval since World War Ⅱ.
He has faced upheavals aplenty in his life.
It is the second upheaval that Mann, herself a wartime evacuee to Canada and then America, concentrates on - and emotional stuff it is, too.
This came to an abrupt end amid the tragic religious upheaval of the 16th century. Times, Sunday Times
We lost "passion" yonks ago – or rather it suffered a seismic semantic upheaval, and now directly equates to long balls to so-called target men, and a tactical grasp bordering on the remedial. Why John Terry has done his 'fronting up' for the last time | Marina Hyde
Keynes made it clear that he looked forward to a gradual annihilation of the "functionless" rentier, rather than to any sort of sudden upheaval (Keynes 1936: pp. 375-76; see also Hazlitt [1959] 1973: pp. 379-84). Mises Dailies
With business and earnings under intense pressure, financial industries' confidence was already wilting before the upheavals of the past few weeks. Times, Sunday Times
What had caused this spectacular upheaval? Times, Sunday Times
There were no upheavals, no debts, no squalid cookless hiatuses between intervals of showy hospitality; the household moved along on lines of quiet elegance and comfort, behind which only the eye of the housekeeping sex could have detected a gradually increasing scale of expense. The Best Man.
Over eons these sediments became buried beneath layers of mud and ash caused by forest fires, more volcanic eruptions, rains and upheavals.
This came to an abrupt end amid the tragic religious upheaval of the 16th century. Times, Sunday Times
It was during her period of personal upheaval that Felicity's career flourished. The Sun
The world today is caught in a paroxysm of violent upheaval.
Human production drives environmental upheaval, closing the 'gap between natural and anthropogenic catastrophe'. The Times Literary Supplement
Somehow he had survived all the upheavals of my adolescence and youth in his tatty knitted boiler suit, the only relic of my childhood. Times, Sunday Times
The current mix of economic and political upheaval has had a profound and disturbing impact on future prospects in the region.
Following the Stamp Act upheavals, he tried to keep smugglers and other scofflaws from flouting Parliament's authority.
Those of us who lived through those times remember the decade as a period of intense upheaval.
It was during her period of personal upheaval that Felicity's career flourished. The Sun
They go from the innocence of youth to conscience-stricken old age, from prewar certainties to the social upheavals of the 1960s, covering whole lives, often moving down the generations in a dozen pages.
On the command ship the bridge was in a tremendous upheaval.
The continuation of economic austerity policies under these conditions has provoked a wave of upheavals throughout the continent.
As the novel traverses the four seasons, it records the upheaval in the small community which relives its memories of the dead.
From an organizational standpoint, the storm and subsequent move to the Sooner State led to immediate upheaval.
It will mean some upheaval but it is worth it. The Sun
Byron's writings reach us from a time of change, upheaval and uncertainty across Europe.
At the precise moment that they had needed stability they had, instead, opted for upheaval and change. Times, Sunday Times
Chief among them: New legislation absolving anybody convicted of a crime related to the 2006 coup that ousted Mr. Thaksin or the political upheavals that followed. Thai Leaders Hold Out for Thaksin's Return
Yesterday's coup brought further upheaval to a country already struggling with famine.
In what lobbyists are calling a harbinger of possible upheaval on Capitol Hill, many who make a living influencing government have gone from mostly shunning Democrats to aggressively recruiting them as lobbyists over the past six months or so. Archive 2006-08-13
It is often a time of immense upheaval and worry, when your warm and tidy home is turned into a messy and dirty building site. Times, Sunday Times
They are backed by a powerful government committed to the servicing of its debt and wielding enormous money-printing and taxing powers that are revocable only in a shattering political upheaval.
The French Revolution was a volcanic upheavalin European history.
A beautiful terzetto describes with inimitable grace the gently sloping hills covered with their verdure, the leaping of the fountain into the light, and the flights of birds, and a bass solo in sonorous manner takes up the swimming fish, closing with "the upheaval of Leviathan from the deep," who disports himself among the double-basses. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
He rose to power during the political upheavals of the 1990s.
True, Barack Obama was elected president in a political upheaval that can only be described as epochal, but, well, you don't really think Cheney's just going to quietly vacate his office come January 20th, do you? Chez Pazienza: One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008
After a period of upheaval that involved unloading burdensome arrangements, it's time to review your priorities. Times, Sunday Times
The ancient earth was prepared through thousands of years of geologic upheaval.
For example, many of our most valued townscapes, landscapes habitats and institutions still reflect medieval and even earlier survivals, despite significant climate change and massive political upheavals in the last 500 years.
The conceptions of republicanism and citizenship were popularized by the upheavals of the American and French revolutions.
At the same time, however, Pozarevac has not been immune from the political upheavals sweeping the rest of the country.
Brion was by no means the only pundit predicting some form of revolutionary upheaval.
These upheavals have shaken and shaped the twentieth century, and in countless ways they affect our lives still.
Even after Napoleon had been consigned to his island prison on Saint Helena the upheaval continued unabated.
As the upheavals climaxed, Witte persuaded the tsar to sign the “Manifesto of October 17,” in effect replacing absolutism with constitutional monarchy. The Return
Yesterday's coup brought further upheaval to a country already struggling with famine.
Yesterday's coup brought further upheaval to a country already struggling with famine.
Careful observers will note that the area between Miss Chung's legs was felt to be too revealing of certain secrets, and was therefore pixellated by right-minded Xinhua editors to avoid causing social upheaval.
When Marx and Engels turned their attention to the cataclysmic upheaval in India, they saw it in relation to similar developments taking place in other parts of the world.
In large-scale responses to recent upheaval, we might choose to focus on ways to hear and see formerly invisible populations, and reclaim this century for what it has the potential to be: an age of collaboration, wherein dreams that used to take place only in comic books or on notepaper come to life in the name of borderless care for one another. Ming Holden: Kenya Dispatch: The End of Structure
This unexpected resurgence of popular radicalism set the scene for the century of upheaval that would follow.
It was bequeathed this tribal duty by the upheaval in the lands of the Arab-Islamic world [what upheaval? neither Afghanistan nor Iraq were 'upheaving' until we attacked them.] and by the guile and cunning of a generation of jihadists [today's jihadists were yesterday's freedom fighters, I guess it depends on your perspective] and their enablers, who deflected the wrath of their people onto distant American power. Obama's Afghan Struggle
It indicates that despite the political upheavals and cataclysms of the past decade, the core of military professionals, who constitute the nucleus of the Russian Armed Forces, has been preserved.
Their vote is, in essence, a plea that the country's new government, to be formed after parliamentary elections in the fall, pacifies a country exhausted by upheaval and unrest. Back on Track in Bishkek
She seems to have cast me as the villain in her latest emotional upheaval.
The corps of centrally appointed prefects endured whatever the nature of the regime in power, stability at the administrative level compensating for the chronic instability caused by the series of upheavals that ensued until 1880.
I've finally settled down after the weekend's upheaval.
Modernity requires constant and unceasing upheaval, and its absence does not bring blessed peace, but withering and death.
The reign of Sigismund II [Sidenote: Sigismund II, 1548-1572] saw the social upheaval by which the nobility finally placed the power firmly in their own hands, and also the height of the Reformation. The Age of the Reformation
This leaves vowels 'a' and 'i' for the next decades, unless we have a return to syllabically coded decades ala the '60s which were the days of smoking 'j's' in which case the 2010s could be the "Rrrrr" decade of piratic upheavals or the "Zzzz Years," the forgotten decade. Barack Obama appears -- simultaneously -- on Olbermann and O'Reilly and I have some advice for Obama.
In view of the upheavals in East Asia that followed the war, including independence efforts in French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies as well as a civil war in China, the fact that the United States effectively occupied Japan and the Ryukyu Islands meant that the U.S. strategic position was safe. Between War and Peace
This includes the loss of treasured possessions, not to mention the upheaval of moving out for five to seven months.
Major economical upheaval caused a riotous outcry from the public for a more efficient government and less waste.
He said that it was strange that so few were facing charges after the widespread upheaval of 1989.
Having a baby will mean the greatest upheaval in your life.
In view of the upheavals in East Asia that followed the war, including independence efforts in French Indo-China and the Dutch East Indies as well as a civil war in China, the fact that the United States effectively occupied Japan and the Ryukyu Islands meant that the U.S. strategic position was safe. Between War and Peace
Hundreds and hundreds of innocent human beings have been murdered in these drone attacks; many thousands more have been driven from their homes, and terrorized into lives of mental anguish, their psyches lamed by trauma, upheaval and the ever-present dread of death raining down on them from the skies. Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 8, 2010
Have there been any upheavals in the recent past?
This includes the loss of treasured possessions, not to mention the upheaval of moving out for five to seven months.
A cataclysmic upheaval was experienced by the other princely families when the privy purses were abolished in 1971.
These ‘vagabonds and outcasts’ came with an alien culture and a tendency to upheaval.
Sorry for the paucity of posts over the past few days but I'm in a state of upheaval known as ‘job change’.
Her relationships assume other proportions even as the country goes through the throes of upheaval.
To understand deviance and crime one needs to be aware of what constitutes normality, a task which became increasingly difficult as social upheavals continued through the early 1990s when the fieldwork was conducted.
For a family to be put through such tragedy and emotional upheaval twice unconscionable.
Some fresh approach to understanding the management problems in secondary schools could be much needed after the upheavals of 1985/86.
It was born 50 years ago, and the world has to live with it just as it does with the borders of Europe, that are redrawn every time there is a war or political upheaval.
As the upheavals climaxed, Witte persuaded the tsar to sign the “Manifesto of October 17,” in effect replacing absolutism with constitutional monarchy. The Return
At the precise moment that they had needed stability they had, instead, opted for upheaval and change. Times, Sunday Times
Her going caused the most upheaval, however, as she unscrewed the kitchen sink, rolled up the carpets and peeled off the wallpaper.
These augurs now portend political consequences that may follow the economic upheaval.
These upheavals have shaken and shaped the twentieth century, and in countless ways they affect our lives still.
At the precise moment that they had needed stability they had, instead, opted for upheaval and change. Times, Sunday Times
For a contemporary embodiment of the upheaval that this scene portended, consider Sean Combs, a hip-hop mogul and one of the most famous African Americans on the planet. The End of White America?
She seems to have cast me as the villain in her latest emotional upheaval.
The civilization's political and social upheaval would be unimaginably severe because only a fraction of the global population of planet could be saved.
All told, the housecleaning represents one of the biggest management upheavals ever.
Theodore Roszak, the author, scholar and critic who brought the term "counterculture" into the mainstream as he documented the social upheavals of the 1960s, has died. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Despite this, a long and complicated number of coups and upheavals continued in the country.
Since being exposed through the earth's upheavals on the top of a mountain in Antarctica, the rest of the fish's body had now unfortunately been eroded away.
However, the electric council which administers the industry has insisted on gradual rate increases in an effort to avoid social upheaval against the measure.
No serious writer on Indian history has been uninfluenced by Marx's writings on India in 1853, and in 1857 on the great popular upheaval against the British called the Indian Mutiny.
Trusting God means trusting God even in the midst of the fear and upheaval that reformation brings.
These internal upheavals have displaced millions of desperate people who cross borders searching for freedom and protection.
Yet the total lifestyle upheaval needed to achieve such an ambitious goal is as realistic for most homeowners as flying pigs.
Marx's own time was similarly marked by a series of turbulent social, political, and economic upheavals, all of which helped shape and produce Marxism.

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