Upheaval Sentence Examples

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  • If nothing else, all this upheaval had given him back his musical voice.

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  • But the upheaval does not seem to affect all parts equally.

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  • At the same time, as the gradients are gradually increasing on account of the upheaval of the continent, the rivers dig their channels deeper and deeper.

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  • The strata here show some traces of the upheaval which formed the Appalachian Mountain chain.

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  • Many believe that this points to the upheaval that began in the spring of 2011.

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  • This feature of his character served him well when the World War brought about the long-expected upheaval of European society.

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  • Some more potent upheaval had cloven a great slice from the marble mantel.

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  • This upheaval - the consequences of which have been felt even within the historic period, by the drainage of the formerly impracticable marshes of Novgorod and at the head of the Gulf of Finland - together with the destruction of forests (which must be considered, however, as a quite subordinate cause), contributes towards a decrease of precipitation over Russia and towards increased shallowness of her rivers.

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  • There the great secession from Rome was brought about by Martin Luther; but, in spite of his striking personality, the upheaval which was destined to shatter the unity of the Western Church was not his undivided work.

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  • Consider waiting until after the upheaval of the festive period before introducing a new animal to the household.

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  • These empty niches in Ely Cathedral tell the story of a radical upheaval in the history of Jesus in British art.

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  • However, we have already been through a similar upheaval in this country.

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  • A POLITICAL upheaval is shaking the quarter of a million strong PCS civil servants ' union.

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  • It is conjectured that at some remote period the Hawash flowed into Tajura Bay and that the present condition of the country is the result of volcanic upheaval.

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  • With these adaptable preferences, a blue gourami can be accommodated in most homes without too much upheaval.

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  • Chances are you're in your current situation because you got blindsided by something major like an illness, car accident, loss of job or other upheaval.

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  • Cultivate your adaptability and make sure you equip yourself to deal with emotional upheaval during the healing phase.

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  • Children of divorce suffer a great deal of upheaval during every stage of divorce, making it more important than ever to provide them with security and protection.

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  • The shopping, the Christmas parties, the visiting in-laws - there seems to be an endless supply of upheaval.

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  • He experienced some upheaval in his family life as a child and teen, spending several years living with his aunt and uncle before returning to his mother's custody.

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  • In the beginning of the game, the city of Sparta is going through turmoil and upheaval.

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  • Definitions of what is or is not moral are in a state of upheaval within individual societies.

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  • For teenagers, divorce is difficult because it is yet another source of upheaval in their lives.

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  • It is very common that our bodies will begin to show physical signs due to the emotional upheaval we are experiencing.

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  • It survived this violent period of political upheaval to become an important scholarly work during the Han dynasty that followed.

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  • Given the sentimental nature and emotional upheaval involved in selling an engagement ring, many pawn shops will not ask too many questions when a customer has one to part with.

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  • In addition to dealing with the emotional upheaval of a cancelled wedding, you have to figure out what to do with the ring.

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  • The history behind this house, unlike a lot of haunted house stories, is not filled with negative emotional upheaval and dreadful violence.

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  • This led to a mass upheaval of sorts, particularly since the media had started to predict that Coronation Street was headed for cancellation.

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  • Financial problems plague the co-op leading to tension and upheaval as Addison takes over the administration from Naomi.

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  • With all of the family upheaval, it was obvious that Hogan Knows Best could not continue in its original format, and so Brooke stepped in to take the starring role for her own show.

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  • The Constitution, if strictly interpreted according to Calhoun's views, would secure this control to the minority, and prevent an industrial upheaval.

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  • This was rubbish, but the last thing the bureaucrats wanted was revolution or upheaval in another country upsetting their relations with foreign capitalists.

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  • Even while the upheaval and reorganization of privatization was under way, we maintained generally cordial relations with local rail managers.

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  • That internal change of concepts and ideas, permeating ever-larger social strata, finally culminates in the violent upheaval known as revolution.

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  • It has a highly mobile and increasingly diverse population, and has undergone great upheaval in demographic and economic terms.

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  • Tuscany survived the invasion upheaval rather well, and many of its cities remained in tact.

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  • The Canadian's last words caused a sudden upheaval in my brain.

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  • The idea of embarking upon yet more revolutionary upheaval seemed anathema.

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  • Having a conservatory or garden room built can mean a tremendous upheaval.

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  • It was rather a great violent upheaval that changed the appearance of the land on which the structures had been raised.

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  • Swansea City chairman Steve Hamer was today dumped from office in a Vetch Field boardroom upheaval.

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  • The Canadian 's last words caused a sudden upheaval in my brain.

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  • Don't begin potty training during a major upheaval or change in your toddler's life.

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  • Every river which rises in Tibet washes down sands impregnated with gold, and it has been proved that this gold is not the product of intervening strata, but must have existed primarily in the crystalline rocks of the main axes of upheaval.

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  • Here the volcanic action, which preceded the general upheaval of recent strata and the folding of the edges of the interior highlands, is still in evidence in occasional boiling mud volcanoes on the coast-line.

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  • As a professional troubleshooter, she has made upheaval, downsizing, takeover and turmoil her bread and butter.

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  • People come to her when they are facing major upheaval in their lives such as redundancy or divorce.

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  • We understand that this involves unwanted upheaval for some people for the benefit of others.

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  • Fuel cells are creating an upheaval in the way public transport is powered.

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  • A political upheaval is shaking the quarter of a million strong PCS civil servants ' union.

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  • Follow Joseph from his emotional upheaval, to the dreamer being reunited with his father.

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  • This vast mountainous region was formed by massive volcanic upheaval and erosion by wind and water.

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  • But the prophetic societies were in their origin one symptom of that upheaval of national life of which the institution of the human sovereign reigning under the divine King was the chief fruit; they preserved the traditions of that great movement;.

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  • That mysterious upheaval, most generally attributed to a love of adventure, stimulated by the pressure of over-population, began with the ravaging of Lindisfarne in 793, and virtually terminated with the establishment of Rollo in Normandy (9r r).

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  • Looking eastwards from the Kaisargarh, one can again count the backs of innumerable minor ridges, smaller wrinkles or folds formed during a process of upheaval of the Suliman Mountains, at the close of a great volcanic epoch which has hardly yet ceased to give evidence of its existence.

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  • It also affords material evidence of that wrinkling or folding action which accompanied the process of upheaval, when the Central Asian highlands were raised, which is more or less marked throughout the whole of the north-west Indian borderland.

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  • Forbes's and Guppy's investigations go to show that, contrary to Darwin's belief, there is no evidence of upheaval or of subsidence in either of the Keeling groups.

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  • The discovery of great Pampean mammals in the Pleistocene beds of that region shows that this upheaval of the latter is very recent, for in the heart of the Cordillera, as well as on the west coast of Bolivia and Peru, there have been discovered, in very recent deposits, the remains of some mammals which cannot have crossed the high range as it now exists.

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  • He saw the invasion of Poland by the Reformation, and the democratic upheaval which placed all political power in the hands of the szlachta; he saw the collapse of the ancient order of the Knights of the Sword in the north (which led to the acquisition of Livonia by the republic) and the consolidation of the Turkish power in the south.

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  • In the production of these mountains and plateau there was first, at the close of the Cretaceous period, an upheaval of the earth's substance to form a mountain rim and a depressed basin.

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  • The upheaval of the country, a movement common to a large part of the Scandinavian peninsula, still continues, though slowly, north-east of a line drawn in a south-easterly direction from Nissumfjord on the west coast of Jutland, across the island of Fyen, a little south of the town of Nyborg.

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  • By other fractures and unequal movements of upheaval or depression portions of the older rocks have been brought up within the bounds of the younger, and areas of the younger have been enclosed by the older.

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  • So rapid has been the land elevation of Central Afghanistan that the erosive action of rivers has not been able to keep pace with that of upheaval; and the result all through Afghanistan (but specially marked in the great central highlands between Kabul and Herat) is the formation of those immensely deep gorges and defiles which are locally known as darns.

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  • Thus the Himalaya represents the southern face of the great central upheaval - the plateau of Tibet - the northern face of which is buttressed by the Kuen Lun.

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  • In any case the number of distinct sea-beaches seems to imply a succession of convulsive changes, more recent than the great Miocene upheaval, which are responsible for the shrinkage of the water into the three isolated pans now found.

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  • Sweden, and the northern mountains of Finland a continuation of Kjolen (the Keel) which separate Sweden from Norway, while the other great line of upheaval of the old continent, which runs N.W.

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  • In the north along the shores of Smith Sound these traces of the gradual upheaval of the land, or sinking of the sea, are very marked; but they are also very distinct in the south, although not found so high above sea-level, which seems to show that the upheaval has been greater in the north.

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  • The general conformation of the Hindu Kush system south of the Khawak, no less than such fragmentary evidence of its rock composition as at present exists to the north, points to l its construction under the same conditions of upheaval and subsequent denudation as are common to the western o Himalaya and the whole of the trans-Indus borderland.

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  • Its upheaval above the great sea which submerged all the north-west of the Indian peninsula long after the Himalaya had massed itself as a formidable mountain chain, belongs to a comparatively recent geologic period, and the same thrust upwards of vast masses of cretaceous limestone has disturbed the overlying recent beds of shale and clays with very similar results to those which have left so marked an impress on the Baluch frontier.

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  • These advances in natural science, which pointed to a unity and gradual evolution in nature, were accompanied by a growth in commerce, manufactures and industrialism; the same kind of spirit showed itself in the revolutionary upheaval of 1848, and in the materialistic publications which immediately followed, while these XVIII.

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  • The general structure of the trans-Himalayan chains appears to indicate that the main axis of upheaval of the whole vast mass of the Tibetan highlands is to be found on two approximately parallel lines, represented the one by the Kuen-lun and the other by a line which is more or less coincident with the watershed between India and the central lake region, extending from Lake Pangong to Tengri Nor, the plateau enclosed between the two being wrinkled by minor folds, of which the relative elevation is comparatively low, averaging from woo to 1500 ft.

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  • The end of the Cretaceous period saw the beginning of a series of great earth movements ushered in by volcanic eruptions on a scale such as the earth has never since witnessed, which resulted in the upheaval of the Himalayas by a process of crushing and folding of the sedimentary rocks till marine fossils were forced to an altitude of 20,000 ft.

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  • Excluding some of alluvial formation at the mouths of many of the rivers, and others along the shore which owe their existence to volcanic upheaval, the principal islands are Banguey and Balambangan at the northern extremity, Labuan, a British colony off the west coast of the territory of North Borneo, and the Karimata Islands off the south-west coast.

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  • On the upheaval of such rocks above the sea-level, fresh water from rainfall began to flow over their exposed surfaces, and, so far as the strata were permeable, to lie in their interstices upon the salt water.

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  • First, for many years the Free-Soilers gained strength; then in 1855 in an extraordinary party upheaval the Know-Nothings quite broke up Democratic, Free-Soil and Whig organizations; the FreeSoilers however captured the Know-Nothing organization and directed it to their own ends; and by their junction with the anti-slavery Whigs there was formed the Republican party.

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  • The Hindu Kush represents the southern edge of a great central upheaval or plateau.

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  • In the great upheaval of the Renaissance and the Reformation it was certain to be defied.

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  • After the violent upheaval in the political world during the last few decades, the existent - as such - increased in value, and the high estimation in which the old regime was now held led to a policy of restoration.

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  • The era was that of the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), and during that great upheaval England was sometimes fighting France.

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  • This evidence of a gradual process of upheaval still in action may throw some light on the physical (especially the climatic) changes which must have passed over that part of Asia since Balkh was the " mother of cities," the great trade centre of Asia, and the plains of Balkh were green with cultivation.

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  • This upheaval - the consequences of which have been felt even within the historic period, by the drainage of the formerly impracticable marshes of Novgorod and at the head of the Gulf of Finland - together with the destruction of forests, contributes towards a decrease of precipitation over Russia and towards increased shallowness of her rivers.

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  • Thus Germany lost the opportunity of reforming the Church from within, and the upheaval of the 16th century was rendered inevitable.

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