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Example sentences for: upheaval

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As some readers are aware, the teaching of English to schoolchildren in England has been undergoing great upheaval of late: the National Union of Teachers, the largest in the UK, recently voted overwhelmingly (nine out of ten) to boycott a compulsory English test for 14-year-olds by refusing to mark, administer, or invigilate [proctor] them.
Political Upheaval
The area was under the sea when an upheaval raised it to the status of terra firma.
A time of desperate political upheaval, calling for a focused and educated world population.
not going back to the risky tax schemes and economic upheaval of the '80s."