Sentences with phrase «when tumultuous change»

When tumultuous change shook the former Soviet Union in the 1990s, with Russian leaders struggling to build a more democratic and free - market society after more than 50 years of communist rule, Caputo staked out his next adventure.

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Life here began in Old Town, with its medieval roots; society was very different back when this part of town was still fresh faced and spry, though some of the old inns still stand if you feel like sampling a date from the heady and seductive Dark Ages... Then take a stroll through New Town, dripping in Georgian decadence; here, you will be reminded that once upon a time the dating scene was a raucous, dangerous place, full of lust and lewdness... Okay, perhaps not all that much has changed, but the point we are trying to make is that Edinburgh's dating scene has shifted across the centuries to become what it is today — fairly sedate compared with the city's tumultuous past, but no less magical or intoxicating.

No one yet knows what will happen when Western cultural institutions are transplanted into desert Islamic societies in the throes of tumultuous social and economic change.

All of this was happening during a politically and socially tumultuous time in the United States, a time when the art world, too, was changing under the impact of the civil rights struggle, student and anti-war activism, and the beginnings of feminism.

The exhibition focuses upon a tumultuous period in the history of the United States when life in the country changed drastically due to war, economic collapse, and demands for civil rights.