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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.
But, notes the paper, doing so would have spared Ocalan the death penalty he now faces, and hence might have produced far less domestic upheaval.
True, the WP calls it "largely symbolic"--but not until the 10th paragraph, after first calling it "a dramatic upheaval" and "part of a broad make-over."
Instead, financial firms should keep more capital to guard against market upheaval.
"What might have been a one-trauma-after-another chronicle of loss and divorce," says Walter Kirn in the New York Times Book Review , "becomes instead a hard and shining artifact of personal and social upheaval."