Words similar to upheaval

Example sentences for: upheaval

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With all this talk of upheaval ("Nature's Bedlam," as Nature on the Rampage likes to call it), you'd think we were suffering a plague of chaos--record numbers of Category 5 hurricanes, epic tornadoes, droughts, and the like.
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.
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.
Even in the years of political upheaval, Guangzhou kept open the nation’s ties with foreign countries and with overseas Chinese, millions of whom have their roots here in Guangdong Province.