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Example sentences for: upheaval

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In the wake of this tremendous natural upheaval, the Aegean Islands next came under the influence of the Mycenaeans (at around 1300 b.c. ), who had a base in the Peloponnese region of the Greek mainland.
So perhaps the war was irrelevant; grade inflation was the inevitable consequence of upheaval in the tenure system.
A time of desperate political upheaval, calling for a focused and educated world population.
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.
Both the NYT and LAT note that he is a moderate, with the LAT stating he has something that will be much needed as Indonesia tries to dig itself out of two solid years of political upheaval and economic failure--good relations with all the major blocs of Indonesian society: the military, former presidents Suharto and Habibie, and the country's students.