Sentences with phrase «dramatic upheaval»

Pitting the legendary Pancho Villa against «the Colonel,» a thrill - seeking Bostonian railroad tycoon whose fading fortune is tied up in a colossal ranch in Chihuahua, El Paso opens during a time of dramatic upheaval in Mexico - its government being squeezed on one end by Villa's revolutionaries and on the other by «filthy» American capitalists.

A decade of tremendous change in the art world and beyond, the 1990s saw dramatic upheavals across all spheres, from the rising cultural dominance of grunge to the technological revolution introduced by the Internet — never mind the shifting of geopolitical borders following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavian Federation, and the brutal civil wars raging across Africa.

In spite being convulsed with dramatic upheavals — from wars and conflicts to resolution and reunification — the region has remained prosperous and peaceful, as can be seen in the values enshrined in the modern «construction» of an European Union.

I kind of hope that's true because the world, thanks to all this technology, has seen dramatic upheaval over the past decade.

«It was a place of huge spiritual significance for the country - two of its abbots were venerated as saints - and one utterly transformed by dramatic upheavals under Henry VIII.

Young Nell, whose father manages the estate, grows up amid dramatic upheavals as the great house is invaded: a pop festival by the lake, a television crew in the dining room, a Great Storm brewing.

The final transformation of society requires a divine in - breaking in the earthly polis akin to Spirit baptism's dramatic upheaval in the person.

But he is keen to emphasize that Luther was just one, if the first, of the agents of the dramatic upheavals of the period, and in the long term, by no means the most important.

We can finally put to rest this dramatic upheaval that has stolen the real story of West Ham this year.

When Lisa Crabtree requested a mat cutter for Christmas some years ago, she had no idea the simple gift would lead to a dramatic upheaval in her life.

You guessed it: The couples whose marriages thrived after the birth had detailed love maps from the get - go... These love maps protected their marriages in the wake of this dramatic upheaval... But if you don't start off with a deep knowledge of each other, it's easy for your marriage to lose its way when your lives shift so suddenly and dramatically.»