Sentences with phrase «social unrest brought»

That is when I decided to put the cryptanalysis plot into the context of what was happening in my country of birth, Bolivia, when I started to write the novel five years ago: the social unrest brought about by the crisis of neoliberalism and the protests against globalization.

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That's why you're increasingly hearing them talking up the concept of universal basic income, a social welfare program that would ensure widespread unemployment doesn't bring about equally widespread poverty and social unrest.

Why is the Arab world convulsing with social and political unrest when triple digit oil prices should be bringing enormous wealth to the region?

Ian Hamilton Finlay's La Rèvolution est un Bloc, 1992 — a wooden block carved with the words of the title and a central aperture reminiscent of a guillotine's lunette — refers in content and form both to advances in secular democracy and social progress, and the bloodshed and unrest brought about by the French Revolution.

Combined with the political and social unrest that brought the decade to a close, and its artistic upheaval, this newly immersive visual culture gave the artists who would form the Pictures Generation a unique set of formative experiences.

It's perhaps not surprising that art retreats to the earth in times of acute political or social unrest; the phrase «lying down» may conjure sleep and relaxation, as when one drops into bed after a hard day, but it also suggests surrender, as when one refuses to fight back, or brings to mind radical political actions such as lying in the road to block traffic or staging a «die - in.»

Though the unrest roiling Turkey began as an environmental protest, the police brutality in response and the prime minister's imperious reaction have brought hundreds of thousands out into the streets to protest the government's social policies, urban - planning agenda, assaults on press freedom, and heavy - handed approach to its critics — to name just a few of the grievances.

Climate and energy policies are well connected — reducing oil depletion and dependency should be achieved through deploying renewable sources and in effect will bring reducing of carbon dioxide — thus what climate policies were (yet) not able to bring, peak oil and high oil prices (however with more negative impacts, like social unrest and geo - political instability) certainly will.

In 1976 the CIA warned that (man - made) Global Cooling would bring — «Drought, Starvation, Social Unrest And Political Upheaval»:

1976: CIA Warned That Global Cooling Will Bring Drought, Famine, Social Unrest And Political Upheaval

IN 1976 the CIA warned the cooling climate would bring — «drought, starvation, social unrest and political upheaval»: